Tommies Poems - Poems about Tommies

...Event: Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902—Measles epidemic in the concentration camps. In the voice of: Sannie Botha (a survivor). Jan’s cough kept me awake all through the night. The children ar......Read the rest...

...Scarlet Ribbons Angry bullets curse and swear Paint scarlet ribbons through your ice blonde hair Scarlet ribbons burst the skies Scarlet ribbons haunt my eyes Then time stands still as I dri......Read the rest...

...Those Tommies send their planes in large amounts They drop their bombs but all they do is bounce Like rubber balls their bouncy bombs all missed Those British pilots must be really… ......Read the rest...

...Time is a sieve through which everything slips what once mattered rendered meaningless as our lifeblood drips onto the clay creating a muddy bog that in our well worn boots we wearily s......Read the rest...