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Via Scarangella – from the Poetry archive

Posted on December 21, 2022 by toritto

via Scarangella – Toritto, Italy Narrow street of ancient age your memories are shining your beauty still as new though your stones were worn well before she was ever born. Your grace is of a young girl twirling; pulling her … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Missing

Posted on May 23, 2022 by toritto

She never took it out on someone else if she was having a bad day; that’s character Her humor was dry always forgiving, with a wry smile if you took too long to get the joke Her laugh was infectious … Continue reading →

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Money Talk – from the Poetry Archive

Posted on May 6, 2022 by toritto

Alpha Delta Gamma Theta Convexity Complexity Backwardation Wage Inflation Triple Witching EBITDA Swap Spread V.A.R. Suck it all, big and small buy and sell, put and call commodity, paper, property oil and gas monopoly LBO the company ship the jobs … Continue reading →

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Gifts from Crows – from the Poetry Archive

Posted on April 21, 2022 by toritto

Dim December’s light breaking dawn of Winter’s night reveals a naked frozen bough hosting the chorus of crows rousing us to a morning thick in ice where nothing flows save time alone leaving tiny gifts in the feeder cleared of … Continue reading →

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Leaving Alexandria

Posted on July 28, 2020 by toritto

I could not stay in Alexandria the brilliant blue sea, the cloudless sky the perfect yellow shore all lovely; bathed in light. Standing there, day dreaming of Antony lost was he between her limbs High Priestess of Isis intoxicated Roman. … Continue reading →

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Dancing to Perfidia – Poem #15 – From the Archives

Posted on June 14, 2020 by toritto

The Hotel Torino – Massawa, Eritrea built by the Fascists when Eritrea was an Italian colony.  In 1960s it had a roof top bar; 20 year old Toritto  misspent a portion of his youth in Eritrea and had many a drink … Continue reading →

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Time is Money – A Lost Early Poem

Posted on June 12, 2020 by toritto

If time was money millions would die so that the few could live forever. They will pay you just minutes and charge you in hours raising prices till you run out of time. The rich will own the centuries cleaning … Continue reading →

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Vishnu’s Dream – Poem #94 – From the Archives

Posted on June 2, 2020 by toritto

In my rear view mirror a vision of Saladin entering Jerusalem while fighting Cambyses returns from Egypt with gold, ivory and slaves. A Roman legion lost in the desert the man-god Alexander spilling blood from Thebes to India an image … Continue reading →

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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 →

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