Deployment Poems - Poems about Deployment

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 courtyard. Like ancient tombs guarded by skeleton trees. A window...

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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 who don't understand What freedom is, or what they can become When...

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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 for a person, the heart could wail, For fond Memories...

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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 tell her he missed her singing their song. He wrote about...

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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 out much like we planned. I cannot wait to leave...

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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 goodbye I hug my daughter closely And tell her not to cry I...

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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 hold the tears back, in fear you'd see I wasn't strong, but...

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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 everyday we want you to be here with fun times to...

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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 the one I can't let go You are the soul mate...

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