Anderson Shelter Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

Anderson shelter

British Government in 1939 at outbreak of World
War Two, issued the Anderson Shelter costing £5.
The shelter 6ft 6ins by 4ft 6ins, six sheets of
corrugated sheets of iron, half-buried, covered with
soil. Shelter saved thousands of lives.


Sirens scream warning
German bombers coming
Death falling from the sky
Mothers rush in panic
Gathering children and grandparents
Hurrying them with pets
Into Anderson shelters.

Terrified families huddle together
Bombs raining down
Houses exploding into rubble
Hours pass within the shelter
People sleeping fitfully in bunk beds
Waiting for the siren's all clear

Emerging from shelter
Weeping mothers embrace children
Relieved house still stands
No one in the street died
Families safe with the pets
Thanks to the Anderson shelter.