Best U Boat Poems

I was seven years old when began World War Two
And eleven became by the time it was through.
I have vague recollections of things when that small,
But events during wartime I clearly recall.

Since there was no TV, it was newsreels alone
Where real pictures of overseas combat...

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More than twelve hundred souls
Meet their watery grave.
German U-boat patrols
Spark a fatal shockwave.

This echo of the past
Resounds throughout history.
Rousing war unsurpassed,
Deadly shroud of mystery.

The empire aids Cunard,
Loaning millions in pounds.
Lord Inverclyde toils hard
On deceptions unsound.

They hide admiralty
Within their merchant fleet,
And in reality
War barons plot deceit.

Famed...

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Hunter Becomes the Hunted
World War 2 is still relevant in 2014. Widow of a Kriegsmarine Captain's U-boat still misses her husband. How she wishes he'd had a shore posting and not gone to sea. When he died in his steel coffin, he left a wife...

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Confused loyalty


1940 German occupation
British planes
On the night sky
To find the U. boat base
They didn`t
But dropped their bombs anyway 
Puny bombs
Burning buildings
Dead civilians
I was sent to a farm
Near a German base
Soldiers became my friends
As the war ended
I was home again
 In time to see
Women dragged out
...

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The U-boat left the mouth of the French harbour
Under cover of darkness for these German Navy martyrs
To the North Atlantic they went to sink Allied shipping their bent
Their plan was to cut Britain's supply line of shipping without lament
But just lately the tide had changed...

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Phobia

Once in Paris, I was going to a venue reading poetry, the hotelier told me to take
the subway as it was easy. After being a fender for busy people I found my train
and suffocated. First stop, I ran off and found myself at a strange...

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She stands on the shore
Dressed in black
Her head bowed
As the waters ebb back

For just offshore
She sees the bows of a ship
Where many have perished
On it's maiden trip

Built on the Clyde
To serve in the war
Never reaching the action
As the torpedo's tore

Off the Isle of Arran
She met...

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The Long Delay 

On glittering morning sea I saw a u-boat surface
covered in barnacles and seaweed.
On its bridge the captain looking onto shore with 
his binocular, scanning the land for enemy activity. 
He saw me and I waved, this he took as sign to
attack and...

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This escort ship
Of World War Two
Convoy carer
To guide them through
 
From sail to steam
To propeller screw
Atlantic saviour
For me and you
 
These modern Corvette's
With their fire power
Delicately named
After a flower
 
While the Canadian class
Named after cities and towns
But when it came to protect
They buckled down
 
From...

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On this Halloween night
A stranger came to my home
My parents invited him in
From his cold nightly roam
 
I hear them talking
As he comes every year
My father distraught
My mother in tears
 
He stays for a while
As they chat away
Sometimes they laugh
But, mostly it's grey
 
Its hours...

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Film Set?
There were many bathers on the beach when a rusty 
U-boat surfaced, a hatch opened a man came on deck
he was the captain and wore a German uniform, 
a long white beard, sunken eyes yes, he looked weary. 
The boat inched into the sand...

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the commander

Going on board my ship, a balmy night in Gibraltar
I noticed four old warships (hunter class) tied up
together on a deserted pier as waiting for the final
verdict, to be turned into nails or sunk.
Having drunk beers with an ex. Royal navy people
I boarded one...

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On a sunny day, you can see forever

The U-boat that cast anchor on the silky shore of Albufeira,
the crew was dressed in German world war two uniforms,
and bathers thought they were actors in a movie.

The captain came ashore he wanted to call Lisbon to his
embassy,...

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War came. How could it not? Bringing many things especially death. They wanted to knock Turkey out of the war. One ally less for Germany. 
Many events happened. Some were firsts. All included death. It was the stuff of legends. Making small nations great and...

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senses

it is about now knowing what you know except in certain circumstances 
when fractures appear; when the past and the future merge.
The authorities were looking for a sunken U-boat using underwater drones
 they found many things
A brig, sunk in a storm a luminosity of a...

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