You, Unwanted Child
Of a Missing Father
And a Distant Mother,
Craving for your Mum's Love
That Aunties and Grandma
Could never compensate,
Standing Alone in your Poor Home
Where the only Richness was your
Huge, Wild, Dramatic Imagination,
The blossom of the New Duse
At the time of the Pew Duce
You grew up an Actress
Before You became One
You won your Academy Award and
You got your Star in Hollywood
But you never acted as a Diva
You had some Men, They moved away
As your Father did, but You moved on
For you knew that Passion is Delusion
And the only Man on Earth
Who meant the World to You
Was your Son, and You were
The Loving Mother You never had
Anna Magnani, Magnanimous Anna,
A Big Heart that smiles in the Daylight
And bleeds and sighs when it's Midnight,
You loved Solitude, Nature and Animals
More than the Red Carpet and its Fools
You aged enough to be proud
Of your Life-Earned Wrinkles, but
Not enough to be a Grandmother
Because Fate did not spare You
Till your very Last Breath.
I wasn't even in God's plans
When You left this Silly World
But to Me You are the Grandma
I reallyv would love to have
To Anna Magnani, on her 117th Birthday
Vera da Pozzo, 7th March 2025









(C) Vera da Pozzo
(C) Italy is Mine
(C) Italy is Mine and It owes Me a Living
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A short scene from the 1950 Italian drama movie Vulcano (English titleVolcano), by William Dieterle (1893-1972): Anna Magnani in the role of Maddalena, singing Çiuri, çiuri (Flowers, flowers), a Sicilian folk song whose music was written in 1883 by Francesco Paolo Frontini (1860-1939).
(To be continued)

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