Best Anzac Poems

ANZAC

Few among them knew the name Gallipolli
no crystal ball foretold the hell it spawned
but in the misty dawn of 25-04-15 
the legend of the ANZACs would be born.

standing tall in khaki pride
he held his wife and newborn son 
don’t worry love be back real soon...

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It's Anzac Day today
Or lads were sent away
To fight a war
And what the hell for
Because they had to pay...

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As we commemorate this Anzac Day,
We shall remember them this way,
Forever asleep, young and brave,
Heroes now resting in foreign graves,
We thank them for our freedom today,
Forever asleep, always young and brave....

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Old soldiers in the firing line, 
Community clubbing time,
Let's honour them in rhymes,
Now in the vault of the unleashed,
Their courage released,
For the job, they were the right men,
The flower of past generations,
People to treasure, through the ages,
In theatres of combat, such stages,
Designer beers wanted here,
On...

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ANZAC Girls

Nobody asked her to go
No one told her to go
She saw the suffering
Of thousands of young men
Australian and Kiwi
They fought together in the trenches
And she was there waiting to care for them
Most lived once they came to her
But some died before her eyes
Even with...

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They were straight of limb as the bullets flew
Made up of true blues and fair dinkums too
When they landed on that bloody April day
They were told to push inland to ensure the stay

The fighting was fierce and brave men fell
Australian, New Zealander and Turk in...

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Tyne Cot War Cemetery

White head stones in countless rows
Soldiers all from the Great War battles

Thousands dead now glory served
Each one a son and loved one

Victoria Cross engraved as heroes found
Known unto God a sad refrain written

On the stone “Their name liveth for Evermore”
A Christian Cross...

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The Spirit soars above the earth 
As silence now pervades its girth
Each battlefield has spat its hate
Broken earth and lives given up to hate

And the Spirit now collects their souls
Each gently taken as bugles roll
For those we loved have gone on now
As time and life...

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Across starboard bow the cliffs drew nearer,
  into harm’s way mighty battalions drove -
men and mule upon cold waves of terror
  stormed the beachhead landings on Anzac Cove.
Great southern blue, red and white standard stars
  in battle hymn out of Commonwealth port,
where...

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“Anzac Day, it happened this way”.

 I remember her now, every Anzac Day,
 a sacred day I cannot. celebrate.
 She was his wife, only seventeen.
 He was just 19, their lives had just begun,
 She jumped into his grave,

 She kept screaming out his name,
...

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We are the ones 
Who inherited their sun
To live in peace together
For we are all tethered
To the Legends true blue
Souls with mates who stood true

And when the stories are told
Of these ones who were bold
Those are the brave ones
Who stood when the day needed to...

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I wonder and admire those people true
Who answered the bugle’s call those years through
For they were volunteers one and all
And how did they stay the distance in the call

A hundred years have passed 
Where great change has been amassed
They were different to each one of...

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It began as a day like any other, 
In the oceans deepest depths,
Until a Kiwi and an Ausi,
Decided to have a picnic at the bottom of the Ocean,
In the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.

They arrived with both flags flying,
Inside the only submersible of its...

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All the Anzacs have faded back into the past
And the old men now rest with their mates
We can hope they play 2 up and still have a beer
Now they’ve entered the heavenly gates

We have cause to remember the men who died young
How they fought to...

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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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