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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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Vigilia - Vigil
How could I sleep This Night When You are not With Me? Please, come back to Me And hold my Hand again So tightly that it hurts As You...
A Month means an Eternity
Lying awake Dying inside It was just A Month ago But it means An Eternity What did You try to Tell Me? ... Did You hear What I told You?...
The Unknown Way
I took the picture be today, somewhere far from Paris. I am too tired to write the poem that sleeps in my mind, but it is inspired by the...
Life's Splinters
Like a Splinter In my Finger Life hurts Me And my Heart bleeds But I cannot Change the Rules I did not choose All I can do, it is just...
Mamma, è la tua festa - Mother, it's your Day
Above: detail of my artwork for my beloved Mamma. "Mama, mama and teddy bear Were the first full firm spectrum of Time..." Morrissey...
An Angel came down incognito
Tell Me: is it You that Have sent Me an Angel In the shape of a Girl Sitting near my table? She gave Me the most Unexpected Gift: a Poem...
Hope, not Mope
Hope, not Mope: Against all Odds and Beyond the Tears That will never dry There is a Way And Your Loving Guide Will watch over You Every...
The Unreachable Rose (Calendimaggio, May Day)
The Sweetest Month of the Year Has a bitter taste of Sadness now The Unreachable Rose Rose to the Bluest Sky So definitely far away I...
Random Kindness is the best one
How do they know How much I need some Genuine Kindness now? There is no sign of Sadness In my Eyes, and I even smile And joke, in my...
There will be no Goodbye anymore
Up to the Sky I look and cry For there will be No Goodbye Anymore Where are You? Why don't You Show up just For a little while? I miss...
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...
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...
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