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This is a showcase of poetry from 9en6 at Nobel School.
Here is a selection of the fantastic poems they produced for our War poetry unit

Friday 11 November 2011

Kyle Dunnell

The Sweet Country We all Died For.

There I Was On the Front line in the British Army
Fighting To Hear The Soldiers Either Dead
Or Screaming In Agony. The Enemy Had Fallen Back after we had attacked them. We Went To base and relaxed for another few hours
Soldiers were writing to their families or paying respect for their old friends who stared death in the eye.

The Next Day.
We Have Pushed em' Further back to their Capital
Another Soldier was killed in an Ambush
I Have Luckily Survived
It was Like Death
Charging At you
In A second...
BANG!

Day 3 On the Frontline
Walking for days through sludge and Mud
Killing the enemy in almost every Blow
Who Knows Where The Rest Will Go
Planes Are Being Shot out of the Sky
When War Happens The Time Fly’s By
'Good Luck!' Says My Friend
Then An Hour Later For Him It’s The End.

50 Days Later
More and more die each day
More and more graveyards In which they lay
'Gas Is Coming Rally The Troops!'
They Put their masks on
Some Failed and Gas Filled their Lungs
The Charge to take the last base
We Ran and Most Survived it was like It would be an easy win but when it looked easy... I was shot dead by a Heavy Machine Gunner

Jodie Davis

She knows when you’re about to die
By the grey blanket of mist
That layers her eyes
A scream is pounding inside her head
And when the reaper takes your soul
And leaves you for dead
She screams keeping the soul lingering
Making the reaper late again
To another bean sidhe
Her screams like a violin
But to humans it tends to make you death
She never grows old
But she wont die young
She’ll live forever screaming soul songs
She wails in the night
She wails in the day
But saving one life
Is another ones death.
Only bean sidhe
Will notice her irises colours swirl

Anna Bourbousson & Katie Lane



The tears from his eyes
Show his families cries
Because he did not come
Back alive.

The tears from his eyes
Show his daughter’s cries
Because she won't see
Her daddy again

The tears from his eyes
Show his cries
Because she won’t see
Her daddy again

The tears from his eyes
Show his cries because
He won’t see his family
Again.

By Anna Bourbousson &
Katie Lane

Tom Whitehouse and Oluseyi Oladejo

Soldiers  

Soldiers die for us everyday
Over and over again hearing people screaming in pain
Little children’s dads may never come back again
Death surrounding all their friends
In this world there are wars going on
Even in places that we never knew
Respect all of the soldiers that go to war
Soldiers are here for you through it all

Peter Tonning

SOLDIERS + GUNS

SOLDIERS SOLDIERS  NOTHING BUT SOLDIERS
THEY FIGHT ALL NIGHT
THEY DIE LIKE CATTLE
BASICALLY WITH NO DIGNITY
BASICALLY WITH NO PRIDE.

GUN SHOTS GUN SHOT NOTHING BUT GUN SHOTS
THEY TRIED TO SURVIVE
THEY TRIED TO FIGHT
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY
THEY DIE.

BY PETER TONNING.

Paige Legood and Danielle Walpole

Soldiers
Soldiers die everyday,
Old and young, as we pray,
Loved or not,
Dieing, Why? Where? What?
I lay here thinking,
Every night blinking,
REST IN PEACE!
SOILDERS!

Poppies
People die in the war,
On behalf of us,
Poppies spread everywhere,
People crying everyday,
I can see this in my family,
Every single way,
SOLDIERS, REST IN PEACE!!!


By Paige Legood & Danielle Walpole!!J

David Clarke and Matthew Allen

Bombs flying, men dieing,
Soldiers on the ground but what can they do.
Families end of crying,
due to losing the man of the family.

Guns shooting fast as bombs are dropping,
People dieing like cattle,
As the war goes on the guns are not Stopping,
How many days will this go on?

Will it end any day soon?

Samson Davies-Batt

                       SOLDIERS IN BATTLE

SOLDIERS WAKE-UP THEY DREAD DEATH
HOWEVER THERE EXPERIENCE WILL BE FILLED WITH DEATH
THEY HIDE IN THE TRENCHES
THEY CRAWL ON THE GRASS
THEY USE CANNON BALLS
BUT IT WOULD NOT STOP THE INEVITABLE
DEATH DEATH DEATH NOTHING BUT DEATH

THEY WAKE-UP DEMANDING FOOD
INSTEAD THEY JUST ARE IN A REAL MOOD
THE SOLDIERS TRY
THE SOLDIERS DIE
THEY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE ABOUT TO CRY
DEATH DEATH DEATH NOTHING BUT DEATH

THEY FIGHT IN THE TRENCHES
THEY GO TO MAKE WEAPONS
THEY EVEN MAKE CANONS
BUT NON OF THEM WILL WORK
DEATH DEATH DEATH NOTHING BUT DEATH

ON THE LAST DAY OF THE WAR
THE SOLDIERS TRY TO SURVIVE
THEY TRY TO DODGE BULLETS
THEY EVEN TRY TO SHOOT PEOPLE
BUT AGAIN NOTHING WILL WORK
DEATH DEATH DEATH NOTHING BUT DEATH

Connor Males

World war one has only just began
Were drinking rum
And were chewing gum
It smells so bad
We just saw a lad
He looks so sad
I don’t understand
I cant hear a sound
It  looks like a round
Gun fire and lights
They really want a fight
Its half way through , how
Can we lose we smell
Like booze we really
Shouldn’t snooze . Bombs
Exploding over my head
I can hear the dead.

Connor Males


Why him?

Why…why him… please,
He didn’t deserve it he’s.
So young what a terrible way to die,
Taking a bullet through the eye. 

Why is this happening please explain,
Who is causing this explosive pain?
What is happening to the world today?
When did this actually benefit men astray?

Bullets flying,
Men crying,
Glairing down the gun sight,
Gives you such a fright.

Finally it’s coming to an end,
Home is only just around the bend,
Many cheers lots of beers,
Wipe away all those tears.


By Connor Males

Deanna Shephard

Afghanistan

I don’t want to die,
I want to survive,
I want to grow old – go grey
                                          and wrinkled,
 see my children grow up…
Have my children.

That is how women feel in Afghanistan feel,

That they cannot walk down the street without the fear
They may be a bomb hidden,
A sniper on the roof,
Someone with a machine gun.

How lucky I am to live and love in safety,
Why can’t all the world live like us,
In safety! In peace! In happiness!

Why can’t they be left alone?

                                  By Deanna Shephard

Amellia Kiddy

Trying not to love you

I’m trying not to love you
I’m trying not to care
I’m trying not to love my life wishing you were there
I’m trying not to wonder, where you are or what you’re doing
I’m sorry I can’t help myself
I fell in love with you

By Amellia Kiddy