Best Deployment Poems

That whole hour before you left,
I stood there and watched time fly,
that moment i dreaded was almost here,
that moment of goodbye.
I tried to make the time last, 
but then the buses came,
my heart was ripped from my chest,
when you turned and walked away.
I tried to...

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She writes with pain,
tears in her words,
and a salty whimper in her sigh.

She walks without feeling,
hiding her fears,
sheltering her sadness.

She only cries alone,
for no one to hear,
so no one can see.

She is true and real,
strong and fair,
prepared to accept her failure;
prepared to accept her demise....

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after a yr of waiting, 
its finally here, 
time for you to come home, 
its been a long year,
loosing teeth, 
second grade, 
school time,
mommy first aid, 
field trips too,
i cant wait, 
to share these with you
everyone is growing up
some  moving away
we think of you...

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Deployment

We stand here in our small groups
Talking nervously
How I handle who I am
Is now all up to me

Our duffles are all neatly stacked
I hear the muffled din
While waiting for the sergeants call
“All right troops, let’s fall in”

My mind races with emotion
As I kiss my wife...

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You are so far away in miles, yet so close to my heart
I cried out my soul the day we had to part....
I'll never forget the pain I felt that dreadful day
When Uncle Sam took you away......

You are my life, my heart, my soul
You are...

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We're out here in the Land of Sand. 
We came to take a stand, and lend a helping hand. 
But every hand I see is shooting back at me. 
It's hard to feel too welcome when all the shot and shell come. 
This isn't working...

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“Dear maya”, he wrote, in his bunker somewhere remote

His mind wandered to her joyous smile, seperated as they were, by many a mile,

He penned what came to him instinctively, in a scrawly handwriting,”I miss you lovely”

He wrote about everything but not for long,he wanted to...

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He's gone again.
The third deployment in as many years
I hold the babies tight and fight the tears
And curse the plane that takes him through the sky
The babies never know the reason why
He's gone again.

He's there again
A soldier in some hot and hostile land
To rescue people...

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Surrounded by people, alone as i sit,I stare out far, at a man in a shiny car.
 
Boredom takes me to the far away sea,to the sailor surrounded by nothing but blue to see,
 
As the wind blows,the vessel sails, he sits and wonders how...

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I stepped off the bus just before midnight. The thermometer read 38 degrees, but I had never felt colder. Loneliness has a way of draining the warmth from your heart. The 400-year-old stone buildings were gray and naked as they bleached through the fog covered...

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