Gallipoli Poems - Poems about Gallipoli

...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 hav......Read the rest...

...One of the scarce things on Gallipoli Was writing paper for letters you see And so the AIF was obliged to send home Letters written on anything that was found or known So in November 1915 Dri......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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 gatherin......Read the rest...

...He enlisted with his great mates And embarked with his life left to fate To Egypt and its desert sands Training hard at the Army Heads commands He was at The Landing at Gallipoli Battling the ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 stree......Read the rest...

...House for house wall for wall and crumb for broken crumb We fight like Stalingrad with nothing left to salvage For honour glory power and some ‘god’ or other Ypres Gallipoli Aleppo Damascu......Read the rest...

...In early April the bus from Lecce unloads us at the fabled fish market. The place is shuttered down, not even the scent of chowders past lingering in the air. The only hint of Jun......Read the rest...

...Close 'round the crackling fire we three, with sweet acacia in the air - tell stories of Gallipoli and digger's bond of friendship there. We laughed and shared like family with roof and walls......Read the rest...

...Yeterli Gelibolu Yeterli (Enough Gallipoli Enough) Passchendaele and the Somme all those battles ~ To end all war......Read the rest...

...She cries at home when alone When she thinks of how he had grown Running wild in the Australian sun Bronzed and athletic he’d become When Australia said ‘to the last man and shilling’ One Sept......Read the rest...

...The trench fronted close to the Australian to Turkish line Being only 10 metres apart at the firing time And Quinn's Post was one of the hottest On the Gallipoli Peninsula for the invaders test ......Read the rest...

...In 1914 at Albany the first ANZAC soldier's fleet gathered And on the transports the soldiers were by orders tethered She was the Light-house keeper's young daughter so patriotic Using semaphore s......Read the rest...