Salvatore Buttaci : Writing

THE POWER OF FAITH

THE POWER OF FAITH

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


Non-believers laugh at faith: How can what is unseen And unproved be real? They place their trust In what the eye beholds, The ear can hear, W..
LIKE NEW EARTH

LIKE NEW EARTH

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


I will not remember you fragile, hollow-boned, weary beneath the tonnage of so many fallen years. Instead, the clarity of your dark-brown eye..
BOY ON A SWING

BOY ON A SWING

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


It’s the boy I was Riding a swing Silhouetted Against a pale moon It’s the boy I was Counting dreams As I arc up and down acro..
IN THIS ENVELOPE�NOTHING

IN THIS ENVELOPE�NOTHING

A Story by Salvatore Buttaci


I studied drama in my undergraduate years, later wrote a few plays for educational theater, and even acted before live audiences, the last of which ..
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

A Story by Salvatore Buttaci


Marissa was much too old for an umbilical attachment, albeit to her cell phone, but she refused to cut the cord and learn that silence is often a vi..
MARILYN MAKES A COMEBACK

MARILYN MAKES A COMEBACK

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


Marilyn Monroe was spotted, that pretty bombshell lover, standing on a New York street above a Times Square manhole cover. She was holding d..
HAPPY HALLOWEEN

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


When the frost is on the pumpkin and the children costumed go, and those ghosts who, out there jumping, scare us more than we can know, may yo..
DRACULA�S DILEMMA

DRACULA�S DILEMMA

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


The sun’s gone down but Dracula cannot come out to play this Halloween. Transylvania sleeps soundly tonight while the uptight count ..
HALLOWEEN MAKE-OVER

HALLOWEEN MAKE-OVER

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


The yellow moon envies the orange pumpkin in a field of vines. He floats in a dark sky streaked with witches on brooms. The moon would li..
Twitter: CIRCLES

Twitter: CIRCLES

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


lost in your eyes, I swim circles round the sparkling ocean-blue where I dream of loving you and how your kiss will rescue me. #