Tag Archives: loss

Moment of Perfection – Poem #30 – From the Archives

Posted on March 29, 2020 by toritto

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 before the downward slope begins. I don’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged aging, deterioration, immortality, life, loss, moment of perfection, mortality, nothing lasts, poetry, the unrealized moment, when all is perfect, youth | 5 Comments

Metal Storm

Posted on May 18, 2016 by toritto

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 | 2 Comments

Matchbox Car

Posted on April 2, 2016 by toritto

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 | 3 Comments

We Might Have Gone to England

Posted on March 6, 2016 by toritto

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 | 4 Comments

Quo Vadis?

Posted on March 4, 2016 by toritto

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 | 2 Comments

Into Exile

Posted on January 30, 2016 by toritto

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 →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged current events, exiles, home, loss, poetry, syria, war | 4 Comments

Sons – Part 4 of 4

Posted on January 6, 2016 by toritto

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 | 5 Comments

Moment of Perfection

Posted on January 2, 2016 by toritto

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 | 3 Comments

Our Christmas Tragedy – 1975

Posted on December 9, 2015 by toritto

I can still feel the moment. Christmas Eve 1975. The day our carefree life ended and a decade of heartache began. We married in 1963 and our 12th anniversary was coming up in 4 days. We had no children the first … Continue reading →

Posted in family | Tagged 1975, a decade of heartache, Christmas, family, globoid leukodystrophy, Krabbe's disease, loss, love, memoir, son, tragic illness | 9 Comments

Longest Night

Posted on December 6, 2015 by toritto

This longest night come stay with me I’ll meet you near the trees out back You always visit in a dream a soft sweet kiss and then away Consider this an invite so fitting for the longest night expected … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Christmas, longest night, loss, love, memory, missing you, poetry, solstice | 3 Comments

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