Dear Son (Haiku)

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Dear son–a man now

I must learn to let you go

~~ You have seen so much

~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Posted by Dom DiFrancesco in Poetry
Tagged: bullets, child, guns, haiku, killing, man, poem, poetry, pride, proud, sadness, safe, safety, soldier, Son, veteran, violence, war

6 thoughts on “Dear Son (Haiku)”

Charles Yallowitz says:

April 4, 2014 at 8:23 am

One can just feel the difficulty in what you’re writing about.

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- Dom DiFrancesco says:
  
  April 4, 2014 at 9:55 pm
  
  Yes,I find I have to bite my tongue a bit. He is not a little kid anymore, he’s a man now and I’m not used to it.
  
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  - Charles Yallowitz says:
    
    April 5, 2014 at 6:03 am
    
    All fathers have that challenge. I know I butt heads with mine at times.
  - Dom DiFrancesco says:
    
    April 6, 2014 at 5:23 pm
    
    This is true, I think it is one of those things that is unavoidable.
Jonathan Caswell says:

April 4, 2014 at 3:37 pm

Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
WISE FATHERS LET GO,
ALLOW THEIR BELOVED SONS…
FOLLOW THEIR MODEL!

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- Dom DiFrancesco says:
  
  April 4, 2014 at 9:56 pm
  
  Thank you Jonathan, it is a very hard thing to do, but I suppose that I will either get used to it or hopefully at the very least keep my mouth shut. Thank you so much for the reblog. :)
  
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