Best Deployed Poems
A lot of people take freedom, liberty, and even sleep for granted. They don't understand what it takes for them to be afforded those priveledges. They don't know how it feels to be on edge about everything that you hear. They don't know how it feels to be afraid to sleep. The don't know about the thunderous boom sound that makes your heart beat as fast as it can that becomes as normal as a telephone ring. You never know when or where the next boom will be, but you stay on edge hoping that it doesn't come in your direction. You lose sleep worrying about yourself, your friends, if you will ever see your children, if you will ever enjoy the place you call home, if you will go home as normal as you were when you left. Sometimes you find yourself alone with your thoughts and you just think about all the what ifs and find yourself filled with regret. There will be people giving advice, but they will never truly understand what you are going through. I guess we all find our way back to sanity eventually. We just have to learn how to make the crazy things normal. This is the path that we chose. These are the choices we made. We chose to support the country, no matter how big, or how small the role is that we have here. This is what separates us from everyone else. This is the life of a deployed soldier.
Thank you to everyone who is in service of our country. War is not something I'm a fan of but I do understand that we have to live in peace, but be prepared to be warriors when required.
Blessings and peace.
The conversation
(when a partner is deployed)
By Michelle Morris
16/10/2020
I look up at the stars in the night sky
And wonder how you're doing,
Out there being deployed to
Defend our way of living...
Depending on where you are,
We might be under different constellations,
But we're still on the same blue marble,
Sharing all that really matters...
I look out from our hideout,
Beneath a foreign sky,
The enemy is near and there's
Potential sacrifice required...
But no matter what happens to me or our team,
We'll fight as one for our country's freedom...
And always and forever I'll remain,
The one who loves you beyond life's constraints...
Our love can last forever,
Despite our earthly limits,
Service is a commitment,
For our country and our children...
© Michelle Morris, 2020
As I watch land fade in the distance
I realize what I have left
My love my wife
My son my life
She rises with me in the day light
Slumbers with me at night
As months come and go
She never fades
As days pass
My little boy grows
He walks
Now he talks
Clear as day I see her beauty
Clear as night shes still my cutey
Home stretch nears
I have no fears
As I return I feel there warmth
Within the distance
I'm humbled to see
The two I love so
For the greatest blessings
Are my son and wife
They are my life
The camel musk entered my tent today
a quiet sand storm arouse the warm
wind settled outside white garments
blew in the breeze i could hardly collect
myself my thoughts were on American
things like Antonio's pizza why I'd mastered
nano breads pita pockets honey dipping
peppermint tea with lemon grass aroma
soaring though out brass tea cups my mind
focused completely locked and loaded I suppose
although it is definitely going to to take some
time getting use being referred to as SGT when
all I wanted to do was curl up with my diary
and my kitten mittens i sure miss mittens being
so far away in the middle east on guard duty
missing my family my friends even my noisy
neighbors i miss the buses the trains the cold
cold nights wrapped in fleece hands hiding in
my faux **** things were different around here
unusually quiet for a war zone I'm torn from
college days my two best friends were from Tripoli
the other from West Bank i sit outside Jerusalem
wondering what my friends are doing back in America
eating toast reading poetry wait I here something
what a pleasant surprise a tiny kitten here now
in the middle east hello there I'll call you Jaguar
funny meeting you here I'm no longer lonely
can't wait to take you back home to America
Written by Mrs Yolanda Joy Nicholsen
In the still of the night I see images galore
Of scantily clad ladies doing everyday chores
Bending over, oh what joy!
With ASSets deployed!
My helper went bananas till my composure was restored
Annoyed So Avoid and Deployed
After we were about to be annoyed,
Our mind said that we should avoid;
Go around;
Never found,
Or do get rid of by being deployed.
Jim Horn
It's as if someone was talking to you
Deep reflective inspiration got the best of you
What you're thinking now doesn't matter
When you travel it is all up to those who
Decide in rash rooms if your life matters.
I see you've started thinking about it
Good it's time you did
Explore this deeper crevice of your mind
And the possibilities you'd rather keep hid
There's no one to save you now, history repeats.
Alas, another soldier will die and grovel at your feet.
You'll have to shoot him, stab him, or kick
Whatever's left of them at least.
So when you tell me war is a game I sigh
Because no one that young deserved to die
And no one in a country should have to lie
Only for the false hope of possibly staying alive.
That's through my eyes, blistering cold
But with the warmth of humility so old
That when someone goes to war they scold
At me when I tell them they shouldn't be there.
The coffee quickly gets cold
in the time it takes to part.
Words start then stop
on this last morning,
or is it the first?