War - Ww1 - The Blockade Of The German Ports Poem by Paul Warren

One of the strategic plans of the Great War
Was blockading the Germans by closing their door
On any trade with other nations through their ports
With the British Navy patrolling as mobile floating forts

So the German people were starved of food
And other things that they needed in civilized mood
So it was sawdust in the bread and turnips in their soup
And things such as paper bandages for their wounded troops

With no hope of victory they looked for the end
When the Armistice was raised to continue was hard to defend
So the blockade worked and innocents had to die
There was no stab in the back - this was a Nazi lie.

© Paul Warren Poetry