Anderson Shelter Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

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. The shelter saved thousands of lives.


Sirens scream warning
German bombers are coming
Death to fall from the sky
Mothers rush in panic
Gathering children and grandparents
Hurrying them with pets
Away into an Anderson shelter.

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 the shelter
Weeping mothers embrace children
Relieved the house still stands
No one in the street has died this time
Families safe with the pets
All thanks to the Anderson shelter.