{"id":377,"date":"2020-04-18T10:09:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T10:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/?p=377"},"modified":"2020-09-16T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T15:36:48","slug":"ho-sognato-mia-madre-i-dreamt-of-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Ho Sognato Mia Madre | I Dreamt of My Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"733\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature1anddreamtofmom1-733x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"400\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature1anddreamtofmom1-scaled.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/?attachment_id=400\" class=\"wp-image-400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature1anddreamtofmom1-733x1024.jpeg 733w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature1anddreamtofmom1-215x300.jpeg 215w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature1anddreamtofmom1-768x1073.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature1anddreamtofmom1-1100x1536.jpeg 1100w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature1anddreamtofmom1-1466x2048.jpeg 1466w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature1anddreamtofmom1-scaled.jpeg 1833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"733\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature2anddreamtofmom2-733x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"401\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature2anddreamtofmom2-scaled.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/?attachment_id=401\" class=\"wp-image-401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature2anddreamtofmom2-733x1024.jpeg 733w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature2anddreamtofmom2-215x300.jpeg 215w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature2anddreamtofmom2-768x1073.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature2anddreamtofmom2-1100x1536.jpeg 1100w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature2anddreamtofmom2-1466x2048.jpeg 1466w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nature2anddreamtofmom2-scaled.jpeg 1833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">The original Italian poem written by Antonio Ottavini on the 13th of June 1965<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I dreamt of you tonight, mamma,\u00a0\nand you were more beautiful than ever,\u00a0\nbut you were pale, mamma\nand so were your hands that I so often kissed.\nA shiver went through my body,\u00a0\nthe dreams seems to be sweeter\u00a0\nand it appeared as if in your mortal state\u00a0\nyou didn\u2019t suffer at all.\nA very light scent of rose\u00a0\ncarried away that strange world\u00a0\nthat once was happy and faraway\nthe remembrance that fills my heart.\nYour beautiful eyes were sparkling\u00a0\nand your mouth looked like it was speaking\u00a0\nand it was saying the most dear things\u00a0\nand on your lips a smile appeared.\u00a0\nBut my mind couldn\u2019t\u00a0\ncapture your words\nand I only understood two words:\u00a0\nyou were talking about death and love.\nYou kissed me and the sweet smiles\nchanged into tears\u00a0\nand the cruel night took you\u00a0\nin your calling, and that was the end.\u00a0\nI reached my hand out to find you\nbut you were going away, very far... very far.\u00a0\nI wanted to call you but it was in vein,\u00a0\nmy voice remained in my throat.\nEverything was dark in front of my eyes\u00a0\nand there was a voice in the air\u00a0\nthat was calling pointing to a cross\u00a0\non the tomb that was covered with flowers.\u00a0\nI was calling again\u00a0\nthinking that you were close to me\nbut I was alone, I was more alone than ever\nwith two tears on the top of my pillow.\u00a0<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The above poem is the English translation of the original Italian poem. The translation was written by Mila Ottavini, with the aid of Marta Ottavini and Ugo Tomassini. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1060\" height=\"1606\" src=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natureandphoto-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natureandphoto-1.jpeg 1060w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natureandphoto-1-198x300.jpeg 198w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natureandphoto-1-676x1024.jpeg 676w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natureandphoto-1-768x1164.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natureandphoto-1-1014x1536.jpeg 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><figcaption>Original photo of Antonio Ottavini with his mother Giulia Pappone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Grief is an unpredictable thing. We can feel it all at once, or in waves over time. Antonio grieved his mother greatly as a boy, and the beauty of his various poems about his mothers can really make us understand the journey of grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poemphotos-2-745x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poemphotos-2-745x1024.png 745w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poemphotos-2-218x300.png 218w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poemphotos-2-768x1056.png 768w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poemphotos-2-1117x1536.png 1117w, http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/poemphotos-2.png 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">The writer of this poem is Antonio Ottavini, and is captured in this original photo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">He was born on the 2nd of October 1937 and passed away on the 4th of August 1995.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamt of you tonight, mamma,\u00a0 and you were more beautiful than ever,\u00a0 but you were pale, mamma and so were your hands that I so often kissed. A shiver went through my body,\u00a0 the dreams seems to be sweeter\u00a0 and it appeared as if&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}