Italy is mine

When Nothing seems to happen And You're stuck on a Desert Island There is Something coming along, and You'll find it sooner than You imagine So please, no more Tears Falling down from Your Eyes: Do Your Best and don't worry If the Dawn seems to be late And the Darkness is too heavy When your Black Dog bites again I hear You crying de profundis: Through Your Voice I feel Your Pain And It's running through my Veins For I know well what It means Since I was eight, sad and helpl

You should have been with Us now Rembering and not being remembered Why did You have to go? The Unanswered Question Stays steadily in my Mind And -alas! - I still cannot find The Key of this sas Enigma But I can light a candle and pray For You and all the Beloved Ones Vera da Pozzo, Paris, 2nd November 2025 Below: pictures taken by me today in one of my favourite Parisian churches. I seldom attend the Mass: I have always preferred the churches when there is nobody. This after

Johnny Marr is undoubtedly a very talented and skilled guitarist and he did a great work when he was just out of his teens in a crowded and extremely lively music scene in Manchester and The Smiths came "to disturb the peace", as James Baldwin said during his famous talk at New York City's Community Church in 1962. In a crowded and extremely lively music scene in Manchester, The Smiths emerged as a band of "ordinary boys" who did not just want to be famous, but who were det

Last year I had not the time to write something about one of my favourites songs by The Smiths, but I made this drawing, taking my inspiration from the Australian sleeve of the single. Here is my artwork: Below, the Australian sleeve for Ask , with Cemetry Gates as the B-side. Photograph by Jo Novark. Cemetry Gates is another of my favourite Smiths songs: I was blessed to listen to both of these songs live, at my very first Morrissey's concert at the Paris Zénith in 2009.

Pictures by me and / with some friends. Saturday night. Below: Sunday afternoon, on the rooftop of the Collège de France and in the...

Too busy to write, still I have found the time for this drawing. Detail of my artwork. ... and my drawing in its whole. New York, New York...

Drawing made by me today. During the concert at the City Folk Festival in Ottawa (the second gig of the Canadian leg of 2025 American...

Quick artwork in my diary. #singandshinefantasticbird #Morrissey #Montréal #singandshine #fantasticbird #music #art #2025tour (C) Vera da...

Rosalia Sinibaldi from Palermo (1130-1166) was a young and wealthy woman who, according to an old legend, refused to get married and...

Like a Flash in the Morning You enter in the Bedroom Slamming the Door But I can't see Your Face: You are White and Bright As a Lightning...

Since I left my hometown, and my older sister too, our home library has become a bit messy. But I always finds certain books, as this...

So, you feel the urge Of a cultural purge And you gently warn me About the terrible danger ( Don't look back in anger ) Of a...

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...

You, Unwanted Child Of a Missing Father And a Distant Mother, Craving for your Mum's Love That Aunties and Grandma Could never...

It was not unexpected, but this does not make the news less sad. Not surprisingly, it is Morrissey who has announced this morning that...

My outfit for my rendez-vous karaoke today. On my way to the Karafun Bar, just after the new good news about Morrissey's European tour, I...

Quoting the song Danny Boy (1913) by Frederic Weatherly : English lyrics on an Irish folk tune, Londonderry's Air . Below, a lovely red...

It is time to get rid of All the Bad Things And the Sad Thoughts Weighing on my Soul Like Uninvited Guests I have washed away All of Them...

We share just a little bit of The Twentieth Century But I have always felt Myself As a Nineteenth-century Soul Your Gentle Face, so...

Life is never easy, but Nature is my true and only guide in this Knockabout World . I am really tired of all the envious and evil people...