Somme Poems - Poems about Somme

Join up and enlist Kitchener said, the Army will be such fun For King and country, make your mother proud son. However life at the minute, it ain't that good I've stood on a mine, losing lots of blood. I've pins and needles now, feeling rather faint I need urgent help or my prospects ain't exactly great. help arriving now, trying...

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Look at Tommy go Watch him fall in neat khaki rows Bravely led Tommy bravely bled 20,000 went over the top 20,000 lay dead...

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Waving poppies, ruffled by the summer breeze, look up At the deep sky and warm sun, pillows of clouds gentle Contrast to the green below and the scattered red faces With soul black eyes. Children’s voices ring like distant bells, The sounds of happiness and the pleasures of life, undisturbed By thoughts of harm. But the...

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In the Somme there was ever only one, After we walked slowly in vain solidarity, So to engage with the enemy in a song, ‘Cos for us they had a shocking enmity, From that point on there was just one, For we each had to act in determination, As if we were each the only...

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The Somme, that's where true heroes fell. No future now war is the thief. Their sacrifice they gave in hell, As wounded comrades stories tell. Of those brave Pals, their war so brief. The Somme that's where true heroes fell. A beating drum,...

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The thunderous skies now capitulate to man, witnessing their tirade of wrath Who would have thought nature now bowed, whilst viewing man's path What man could imagine, beating a power like she When I look back at the template I wrote This wasn't meant to be Inspired by reading a posting on Facebook by 'Janette Fisher' ...

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Over the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high! Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die. My brothers from the ripened field and blackened mill, shop floor, Your brother in a killing field to fight a rich man’s war. In bloodied mud and shattered wood, fight legions of the brave, Unwitting youth,...

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