Best Gallipoli Poems

Gallipoli
by Robert J (Bob) Moore

They came together across the sea, 
to this place they called Gallipoli
all walks of life, class and creed,
all they knew, there was a need

From far and near, they heard the call,
did not know, so many would fall
they knew a job needed...

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GALLIPOLI

From the Snowy River March, they came
So young and free and wild
Someone’s brother…father…nephew
Or a mothers only child

The call was made and the lads rallied round
As they vowed to fight for love of country
On the shores of this foreign land
And as they left the comfort of...

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In you the Dogs of War unleashed again
  an Expeditionary Force by sea,
and in the ground in years fourscore and ten
  lie bones of Empire and Admiralty.
How in muddy trench riflemen joining
  charged the lines on Ottoman ancient land,
and loud shellfire through...

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A Poem Of WW1 
ANZAC Day 
25th April 2018

Let’s have at Johnny Turk
Winston Churchill said, 
We’ll secure the Dardanelles,
Keep our Russian trade fed.
His words so casually uttered 
May have had to be eaten
Johnny Turk was well Generalled
And not so easily beaten.

The naval campaign to start
Was,...

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SANDS OF GALLIPOLI’S BLOOD

On the sands where diggers bled
As they came ashore,
To fight the good fight,
Puppets of a master’s whim
Of loyalty to a crown of way beyond,
No hesitation to join and follow fellow brothers here,
From the land of hard toil of country life,
From the landscapes...

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Off Season in Gallipoli

		April’s bus from Lecce unloads
		at the fabled fish market. It’s closed.
		The only hint of June’s full fare
		is one slight stall. No one lunching there.
		The streets are open; we stroll at will
		by a weathered or a white-washed wall.

		Look at the moored boats. The...

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Do you think the rains will break
He said to his wife at the morning  wake
It’s the 25 th of the month you know
And time to plant the crop to let it grow

Outside there were dark clouds gathering 
With a spot or two on his...

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