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Tag Archives: loss
Metal Storm
For upcoming Memorial Day – second in a series of Toritto’s war poetry Summer sun reflected off a wheel chair holding half the soldier he used to be in half the body he used to have the dent above his left … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged care taker, casualties of war, forgotten vets, futility of war, loss, memorial day, poetry, shrapnel, soccer, sorrow, traumatic brain injury, war poetry, wheelchair
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Matchbox Car
You find it when your old life is gone moving dressers, peering under the bed trying to make some sense of it all through cobwebs, mites and cat hair furniture and lamps a most familiar room where someone else … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged daughters, loss, matchbox car, memory, moving, new life, poetry, son, starting over
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We Might Have Gone to England
A Promise I Didn’t Keep – Carpe diem! We might have gone to England British Air in business class spent Summer time in Westminster placed flowers at the cenotaph. . Windsor, Bath and Stonehenge Cotswolds, Stratford, see King Lear You … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged carpe diem, England, loss, poetry, regret, time, too late, widower
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Quo Vadis?
Therefore we commit his body to the ground earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust And his tears fell like the rain as he embraced his wife and younger son touching his lips to the casket of his … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged bible church, closet, coming out, gay?, intolerance, loss, poetry, sorrow, suicide. teen gay suicide
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Into Exile
I walk the old streets and realize they tore down the Endicott Theater to put up a savings bank in the same space where Poppa and I saw “Blood and Sand”. And Fat Tony’s Luncheonette where we’d stroll for a … Continue reading
Sons – Part 4 of 4
Michael The doctors spoke to them about a “degenerative disorder of the nervous system” and how infants with the disease seem perfectly normal at birth. The test for a definitive diagnosis could only be done at Albert Einstein Hospital in … Continue reading
Posted in family
Tagged 1970s, choice, daughters, disability, DPT vaccines, family, krabbe's, loss, love, North Carolina, seizures, tragedy, triumph
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Moment of Perfection
One of my more popular pieces from 2015 I don’t recall which day it was of the thousands I have lived when I realized that nothing lasts and what a shame it was that perfection is for just a moment … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged deterioration, immortality, life, loss, moment of perfection, mortality, nothing lasts, poetry, tagged aging, the unrealized moment, when all is perfect, youth
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