Monthly Archives: May 2016

40,000 Hits

Posted on May 28, 2016 by toritto

    Earlier this week I reached 40,000 views on this blog and 550 followers – a pretty nice milestone for an old retired guy living in Florida who tries to write poetry (not very well) and sundry other posts. … Continue reading →

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Peace Comes – a Re-post

Posted on May 27, 2016 by toritto

for Memorial Day – a peace poem Until peace comes we bear the storm; thunder and lightning sturm und drang for blind are each man’s eyes seeing not humanity in the “other”; we stumble and do not understand, nor realize by … Continue reading →

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If Poetry Could Raise the Dead

Posted on May 26, 2016 by toritto

For Memorial Day – seventh in a series of Toritto’s war poetry If poetry could raise the dead the earth would bleed where they had bled to flow back into fallen soldiers  who would rise, young and filled with wonder … Continue reading →

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The Price of Honor – for Memorial Day

Posted on May 25, 2016 by toritto

a re-post It was the Summer of 1967 and I was in the Army.  My four years of service would be up on November 17, 1967. I had been loading up flat bed rail cars in Texas in 1966 as … Continue reading →

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The Messenger – 1967

Posted on May 25, 2016 by toritto

for Memorial Day – seventh in a series of Toritto’s war poetry When your son was killed that Summer night you were filling up the car; you didn’t know ‘till you saw my face what I already knew. While you … Continue reading →

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Winged Victory

Posted on May 24, 2016 by toritto

For Memorial Day – Sixth in a series of Toritto’s war poetry Moc Chau, Vietnam The fields are fully green again where only yesterday was shed wild blood of exuberant youth beauteous youth their blood staining the earth still, though … Continue reading →

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Former Israeli PM Says Country “Infected by the Seeds of Fascism”

Posted on May 23, 2016 by toritto

The quote below is from an article in Salon dated May 21 by writer Ben Norton “Israel’s ex-prime minister has warned that his country is “infected by the seeds of fascism.” Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister and defense … Continue reading →

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The Decline of Functioning Democracy

Posted on May 23, 2016 by toritto

Well the first national polls came out last weekend revealing the presumptive nominees, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in a virtual dead heat. Some 70% of those polled indicated that the choices available are the worst in their lifetimes.  A … Continue reading →

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Summer – 1914

Posted on May 22, 2016 by toritto

For upcoming Memorial Day -fifth in a series of Torrito’s war poetry   It was a Summer of banners, awash in tunics, red and blue bedecked with golden epaulets black boots, silver stirrups pipes, drums, trumpets and Tatoo. It was … Continue reading →

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Soldier Boy

Posted on May 20, 2016 by toritto

Written during the height of the Iraq War and the great recession.  For upcoming Memorial Day – fourth in the series of Torrito’s war poetry Unemployed for fourteen months bank foreclosing on our home moving into grandpa’s place can’t support … Continue reading →

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