Short Anzac Poems

Drongo coppers (sic)
Rise calm eyes sharp mind strong edge
Millions storm ANZAC !!!...

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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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Kendrick Smithyman 'ANZAC CEREMONY'

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When heroes die
We hold them high
For they are cleansed
Do we comprehend?

What they did made us proud
On Anzac Day a tear is allowed 
For the times that they weren’t their best
Is now forgotten in their sacred rest.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Australia is for freedom
And a chance to live in peace
We stand shoulder to shoulder together 
And not for giving grief
For we are daughters and sons 
Under the Southern Cross
Inheritors of ANZAC
Proud and true knowing what it cost
Australia you bloody beauty!!

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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The red glow of sunrise paints the sky
Families gather as candle light flickers nearby
The ANZAC Service echoes from place to place
This year’s Dawn Service shared in sad grace

The virus has its say on us everyday
Whilst social distancing is our way
Driveway services weaving us together
As the Last Post plays in their memory forever. 

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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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 Anzac Day, we give them silent cheers....

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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 be won

And I am proud 
To say it out loud
We are sons and daughters of ANZAC
Pride in their Legends as fact.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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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 on top of a German pill-box

Sacrifice for the “War to End Wars” unfulfilled
A hundred years past but still it begs belief.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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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 us
And were known to make less of a fuss

The Great War changed the world
Where great empires were lost and felled
And what is left is from those years
Lest we forget as we shed our tears

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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