The poetry collection Thoughts That Remain by Dr Melita Moretti brings together 48 poems about relationships, love, vulnerability, longing, memory, loss, closeness, and inner strength. Her poetry does not seek grand gestures. It is interested in moments when something shifts almost imperceptibly: a glance, a touch, a decision to stay, the silence between two people.
A particular tension within the collection also arises from the author’s own world. Melita Moretti is a researcher accustomed to numbers, data, and analytical thinking, yet in her poetry she enters precisely the realm of what cannot be fully measured. In her poems, therefore, reason and emotion do not exclude one another—a number can become a word, a thought a relationship, and home a decision.
Thoughts That Remain is a collection of poems about closeness in an age that continually pushes people apart.
MUANIS SINANOVIĆ: “DR MELITA MORETTI’S POEMS ARE LITTLE MIRACLES”
Poet, writer, and critic Muanis Sinanović has written an accompanying essay for the collection entitled On Poetic Tension.
His reading places the collection in a broader social context: a time when the individual is increasingly understood as an isolated unit, while relationships often turn into calculations of benefits and expectations. Melita Moretti’s poetry stands in opposition to this through tenderness, directness, and an insistence on the Other.
Sinanović therefore describes it in these words:
“Dr Melita Moretti’s poems are little miracles.”
He understands her poems above all as poems about relationships—as a language that does not instrumentalise another person but recognises closeness as one of the fundamental conditions of our existence.
He also particularly emphasises the accessibility of her poetry. Moretti does not construct a hermetic language or resort to cynicism, but this does not mean an absence of poetic tension. On the contrary, it is precisely simplicity that demands great precision in the choice of words, rhythm, and verse.
Read Muanis Sinanović’s accompanying essay “On Poetic Tension”
Poetry as Relationship
For Sinanović, one of the key qualities of the collection is its faith in the possibility of a relationship.
The poems speak of love, but for Melita Moretti, love is neither sentiment nor a romantic ornament. It is connected to presence, acceptance, and the ability not to turn another person into an extension of our own expectations.
This is why silence is also important. In the collection, it is not empty. It is a space in which words can begin to acquire clarity.
Sinanović particularly draws attention to the author’s sensitivity to seemingly simple language: to ordinary words that, through their carefully considered arrangement, begin to carry a different weight.
A poem is therefore not a riddle that the reader must solve. It is a space the reader can enter.
When Numbers Speak Words
In March 2026, three poems from the collection were published on Jantarna lastovka: Sometimes We Fall in Love, Home as a Decision, and When Numbers Speak Words.
Together, they clearly reveal three directions of Moretti’s poetics: love, belonging, and the connection between the analytical and the intimate.
In Sometimes We Fall in Love, closeness does not mean possession but a space in which a person no longer needs to be on the defensive.
In Home as a Decision, home is not a place that can be taken for granted but something that takes shape through presence and the repeated decision to stay.
The most personal connection between the author’s two worlds is established in the poem When Numbers Speak Words. In it, a researcher who works professionally with data shows that numbers in themselves are not yet the truth. Meaning emerges only when we know how to ask the right question and read the result without forcing an interpretation.
“I know that truth is not in the table and that meaning is not in the calculation.”
This poem perhaps most clearly reveals what makes the collection distinctive: analytical precision and poetic sensitivity are not opposites. Both demand attention. Both demand an honest gaze.
Read three poems from the collection on Jantarna lastovka
Between Research and Poetry
Melita Moretti holds a PhD and is a researcher and expert in quantitative research. Her professional work is connected to data analysis, research methods, and academic publishing.
She herself understands poetry as another space of exploration—a space for what cannot always be measured. Thoughts That Remain thus consists of 48 poems about silence, memory, intimacy, presence, loss, tenderness, and inner strength.
This duality is beautifully captured in the title of one of the poems: When Numbers Speak Words.
It is not a matter of abandoning reason in favour of emotion. Rather, it is a search for the point where precision and sensitivity meet.
Galarna: A Collection That Does Not Seek to Outpace the Reader
The online bookshop Galarna presents the collection as gentle poetry about relationships, love, vulnerability, longing, and inner peace.
It particularly highlights the unhurried way in which the collection addresses its readers: this is not a book that demands to be read from beginning to end, but a collection to which we can return—one poem or one thought at a time.
At its heart are small moments whose significance often becomes apparent only later: the memory of a touch, a word, closeness, or a thought that remains when the event itself has already passed.
Explore the collection on the Galarna online bookshop
Thoughts That Do Not Slip Away
The title of the collection can also be understood as its poetic programme.
Countless thoughts pass through us every day. Most disappear. Some, however, linger because they are connected to another person, a memory, closeness, or loss.
It is precisely these thoughts that interest Melita Moretti.
Her poetry does not speak from a place of grand declarations but from small shifts between people. From the moment when someone stays. When someone does not close themselves off. When a person suddenly recognises a home in another.
In a world that increasingly teaches us to value speed, efficiency, and measurability, Thoughts That Remain does something seemingly simple: it stops time just long enough for us to notice what remains.
