MALINCONIA: NAPOLI : IN ENGLISH

Malinconia II [Napoli]

I still feel the warmth of your sun
And taste the sea of your bay
I still hear the stillness of summer nights
And melodies fading away
You were my first love and my last
I was so young and happy then
I listen for the voices of my past
But they are gone and tear at my heart
I thought I would always wake to your embrace
I was so young and foolish then.

— Geremia, May 20, 2009

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Nordic cloud

17 years ago

A charming salty memory

Do we know who's speaking? I think so. No? And all those soulful songs are singing in your ears too, and making webs of dreams that you can only imagine, or have you been there too? I have never been to Napoli, but I have read and seen and heard so much that it has a magic of its own for me too, woven with the poetry and myths of old Italy. Annuccia tua.

Geremia

17 years ago

Malinconia

J.B. Longo-Geremia The immigrants f rom southern Italy, especially the women, never saw their homeland again. They felt this consdant "malinconia", or "longing", to be back. My maternal grandmother left in 1900 and never saw her mother or 7 brothers and sisters again. This special"malinonia" appears mostly in the old Neapolitan songs.

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