Sing and Shine again, Silver Boy
So far away, yet so near to Me With Your soothing Voice That pulses in my Veins Since I was a Little Girl Chasing Sadness and Fears...
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Italy is mine
... and it owes me a living
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Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.
From the Island of the Sun to the Isle of France.
My pseudonym Vera da Pozzo is a pun alluding to what I care about most : truth and loyalty, depth and insight. In my mother tongue, the syntagma "vera da pozzo" means a puteal, but it could be a female name followed by a family name. Water is indispensable for living, and we need to keep it pure and unpolluted; it is the same for truth.
I write in English because I love this language since my childhood and also because English allows me to have a more detached view on both Italy and France. The title of my personal website and blog is a paraphrasis of the verse "England is mine and it owes me a living", from Morrissey's song "Still Ill", released in The Smiths debut album "The Smiths" on 20th February 1984. As Italy had nothing to offer to young people like me, I decided to throw my arms around Paris, as Oscar Wilde did, and I am still here. Like francophone actor Lino Ventura, I am and I will always be Italian.
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Back to Where I don't belong
I am leaving again But this new Pain Will not leave Me For It will stay Wherever I go Whatever I do Forever in Me Today I am leaving...
Festa della Liberazione - Liberation Day - 1945-2025
On the Day of Liberation There's no room for negotiation: Here they were and now we're here Standing for Liberty, Democracy and Peace So...
De consolatione Naturae - On the Consolation of Nature
Mother Nature never fails: I trust Her like my Mother And I feel safe and peaceful In Her tender Arms Because Love and Truth Are always...
Post fata resurgam
Like the Phoenix I know that You are As You were, and that You will be as You are To You, always and forever Vera da Pozzo Somewhere in...
Resurgam, Resurgo, Resurrexi
The Sun did his best To celebrate this morning But the Sky is in tears This afternoon and Nobody can stop it Except Time Resurgam,...
Holy Saturday
You gave Me Life You saved My Life You are My Life Now like Then And Forever To You Vera da Pozzo Holy Saturday, 19 April 2025 Sabato...
Good Friday, Day of Sorrow, Day of Hope
Dear Lord Jesus Carrying the Cross I will carry It for You Like a Tree Support On this Day of Sadness And Rebellious Hope And when the...
Dove of Love
My Dove Of Love Where are You Now? You are Here For I see You And You are Elsewhere For You look at The Invisible One My Dearest Dove of...
πάντα ῥεῖ - Panta Rhei - Everything flows
Solitary Walk on Sunday Afternoon Staring at the Water that flows As Everything does in this World But - alas! - not Everybody knows The...
April Fool's Day
You can try to Fool Everybody But You'll fail Inexorably For it's not April Fool's Day Every Day Your Forked Tongue Will strangle You One...
Franco Battiato is flying with the Birds in Bardo
Franco Battiato in 1981. Drawing by me. (C) Vera da Pozzo (C) Italy is Mine (C) Italy is Mine and It owes Me a Living
Spring spawned a Poet: Alda Merini
A short TV excerpt: Alda Merini in conversation on Swiss Radiotelevision of the Italian language (12 December 1990) and talking about...
Saint Patrick's Day
If I weren't Italian I'd surely be Irish Below: picture of the poem I wrote yesterday by chosing, cutting and pasting words taken from...
Anna Magnanimous
You, Unwanted Child Of a Missing Father And a Distant Mother, Craving for your Mum's Love That Aunties and Grandma Could never...
The last of the famous New York Dolls - Remembering David Johansen, aka Buster Poindexter
It was not unexpected, but this does not make the news less sad. Not surprisingly, it is Morrissey who has announced this morning that...
In Your Memory, in Your Shadow
(To be continued...) (C) Vera da Pozzo (C) Italy is Mine (C) Italy is Mine and It owes Me a Living (C) Vera da Pozzo
Why bother?
Below, a very wise advice. Translation by me: "Don't spend your life giving too much explanations: true friends don't need them; enemies...
The Forerunner Bee
On this Shiny Sunny Sunday I was going to my Park (Just a few steps left) When a gentle, tiny Bee Settled on my left arm And then to my...
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