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Anna Magnanimous

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Updated: 11 hours ago

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


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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