The Coventry Bombing

The sky was inflamed as the evening fell.

The planes started to rise from the distance.

Sirens sounded, panic struck. 

It was horror, it was destroyed,

My heart was no longer.

The city got worse as the bombs dropped down.

Fear on everybody’s faces.

We all ran down to the shelter, hoping we would live.

There in the shelter the ground was shaking

They were bombarding, bombs blasting, loud screaming, Death emerging, guns re-loading,

It was total madness.

People awakened from the shelter below and saw all the pillars of smoke.

The city centre was crumbled below our feet.

There was nothing left to live for.

Black smoke, destroyed buildings surrounding us,

The city was dead!

By Michelle (Yr6)

The Blitz

Fear on everybody’s faces

From last night’s terror.

The moon was high, clear beautiful.

Then it dawned on us.

Siren sounds, panic strikes everyone.

Some shouts, more screams, nothing compared to it.

Then I feel it shaking the ground, with a deathly sound.

Bombs hit in a never ending line.

Pillars of smoke never stop.

I open my eyes and it’s gone.

By Jayme (Yr6)

The Blood Thirsty Blitz!

I am lying on my living room floor,

I am looking at the wall but where’s the door?

I am feeling the breeze of the Earth’s core,

I am in the middle of an immense war.

The sky is as red as blood,

The ground is covered in sloppy brown mud,

The fire is roaring like a lion,

The houses are steaming like an iron,

The bombs exploding,

Machine guns re-loading,

They are willing,

That they will be killing,

Lots of folk,

Gathered under the smoke,

They are destroying the city,

They will be saying “Oh what a pity.”

Now it’s a brand new city,

It will always be pretty.

We’ll keep it in our sight and let it shine under the moonlight.

By Lucy K (Yr6)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Blitz Moon

The night is clear
The moon is bright
The thing I hear
Throughout the night
Not the planes
Not the screams
But the bombs plummeting
To the earth it seems.
Bombs are flashing
Throughout the night
The smell of smoke
Not a peaceful night
The moon tonight
Frightening
Shining down
With a devilish frown
The earth below
Is white like snow.

By Matthew G (Yr6)

14 November 1940

Bombs screeching
Like an angry baby
Impossible damage
Tackling like wrestlers
Zooming fire roaring viciously like a hungry lion.

By Megan (Yr6)

I can still…

I can still hear the old townsfolk

The jet black columns of smoke.

I can still feel the pain

Tonight for dinner we’re the main.

I can still see the children in their dance

Now I’m staring into death’s glance.

I can still taste the sooty, crisp air

This war with Germany it’s not fair.

I can still smell fear

Now I’m afraid the end is near.

By Grace (Yr6)

Blitz

We thought it was another day, another life, well we were right.

We could hear people crying, crying

Devastated to see their husbands, daughters and families gone.

The city centre crumbled it was falling apart .

The sky was completely red, smoke surrounded the sky.

We could smell flesh, blood and fire.

Water flooded the ground .

By Amy  M (Yr6)

After Alan and Ivy's visit, Year 6 have listened to an audio clip of a man recounting his time in the volunteer fire service during the Blitz and watched a documentary about the bombing of Coventry. Here are a few of our poems.

Blitz 

The full Moon I was daunted
I felt like that night we were haunted
Then loud and clear came the air raid siren.
Finally came the roar of German planes
We were stuck in a prison of horror and shame.
14th of November who would guess
I felt like Coventry would never rest.
I could feel the pounding of my heart.
It was speeding like a car
But it wasn’t getting very far.
I could hear the screeching of a bomb
Maybe later our house would be gone.
I looked out of the taped window.
There was dark red blood all around
Bricks and burnt body bits on the ground.

By Eli (Yr6)