Coffee Break
The L. T. was green,
And equally mean,
Full of swagger and bluster,
And all the authority he could muster.
Bold in command,
This brash little man,
Who strode all around
Like he owned the damn ground--
Barking orders and spittle,
Never regarding how little
Regard in which he was held.
It was the midnight shift,
And L. T. in a tiff,
Cause his coffee had run out.
The
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Categories:
deployment, military,
Form: Rhyme
I’m Not in Missouri Anymore
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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Categories:
deployment, poetry,
Form: Haibun
He's Gone Again
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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Categories:
deployment, leaving, military, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Ballad
An Ode To a Mariner
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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Categories:
deployment, absence, cute, hope, longing,
Form: Rhyme
From Your Soldier
“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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Categories:
deployment, absence, for her, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Land of Sand
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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Categories:
deployment, humor, military,
Form: Light Verse
Deployment
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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Categories:
deployment, family, introspection, life, warsound,
Form: Rhyme
Deployment Day
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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Categories:
deployment, husband, love, peace, sadgod,
Form: Rhyme
Deployment of a Female Soldier
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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Categories:
deployment, depression, life, war,
Form: Free verse
Deployment
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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Categories:
deployment, love, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Deployment
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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Categories:
deployment, love, pain, easter, day,
Form: I do not know?