Anderson Shelter Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

Sirens scream warning
German bombers are coming
Death falling from the sky
Mothers rush in panic
Gathering children and grandparents
Hurrying them with pets
Away into back garden shelter.

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

Emerging from the shelter
Weeping mothers embrace children
Relieved house still stands
No one in the street died this time
Family's safe with the pets
All thanks to the Anderson shelter.