100 Years After the Beersheba Charge

Did you hear about the charge On that faithful day At 4 o’clock in the afternoon It was the desert you see And water was like gold When the Australian Light Horse Charged Beersheba that day Chauvel lined them up And with bayonets in hand They charged the Turk trenches down They won the wells for a long cool drink Breaking the Ottoman Empire To start the march to Israeli independence And a place in the world history’s page. © Paul Warren Poetry