Tag Archives: memory

Time Flies – from the Poetry archive – 2015

Posted on October 4, 2022 by toritto

It’s after midnight It was nine when I turned on the lamp, sitting here, neither reading nor talking alone in the house who is here to talk with? Only the shade of my former self reminding me of earthly pleasures … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged aging, alone, loss, memory, pleasures, poetry, sorrows, time flies, youth | 4 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

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

Time Flies

Posted on September 22, 2015 by toritto

Posted in Poetry | Tagged aging, alone, loss, memory, pleasures, poetry, sorrows, time flies, youth | 3 Comments

Memory

Posted on July 23, 2015 by toritto

We never fought much or so I remember and only once did I make you cry A lifetime together reduced to moments now less defined less remembered a kiss on the bow of a Brooklyn bound ferry when I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged dragon fly, happiness, life, loss, love, memory, moments, poetry, tragedy | 10 Comments

Cover Girl

Posted on July 16, 2015 by toritto

Staring darkly in the mirror wishing she was very little so if she fell and skinned her knee daddy would be there to say don’t worry honey it’s ok he’d kiss and cover-up the boo boo. And when she got to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged cover girl, dad, domestic abuse, memory, poetry, shame, sun glasses, wife beaters | 6 Comments

Still Men

Posted on July 7, 2015 by toritto

They looked up and saw her the body electric fashioned by Eros coming through the door tall, with a perfectly turned ankle worthy in itself of worship limbs formed by the gods a sculptor’s deft touch to hip and breast. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged admiration, aging, beauty, hint of desire, memory, old men, poetry, smiles across the table., still men | 2 Comments

From a Tent in Italy

Posted on May 29, 2015 by toritto

In the camp of dreams he s sitting on his balcony in Aleppo the lights of his city now dimmed the street blackened and empty the clatter of crockery indicating life goes on somewhere in the dark a distant rifle … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aleppo, Italy, loss, memory, oud, pistachio, poetry, refugee, rose water, syria | Leave a comment

Niches and Stones

Posted on May 27, 2015 by toritto

Niches and stones names and dates marking unknowns to passers by Wait long enough and no one living remembers your name or brings you flowers No one has brought flowers since the nineteen sixties erased from living memory just a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged flowers, grandmother, graveyard, loss, memory, no one living remembers you, poetry, unknowns | 1 Comment

The Longest Night – A Re-Post for the Solstice

Posted on December 21, 2014 by toritto

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Christmas, longest night, loss, love, memory, missing you, poetry, solstice | Leave a comment

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