Song Inspired by Valerio’s Poem

Valerio’s secondary school, the International Grammar School, hosted a Music Night for its thirtieth anniversary, dedicated to Valerio’s memory. Australian musician Paul Jarman composed a song whose lyrics are the words to one of Valerio’s poems, published in his first book ‘Love for the Turning World’.

ORANGE TREE
By Valerio De Simoni, with Paul Jarman & Bonnie Nilsson
Orange tree
Beneath my window
In the garden
Look at the beauty I see
Orange tree
Beneath my window
In the garden
Blossoming all for me
Grown from a single seed
Orange tree
What beauty
Little orange tree
One can learn much from an orange tree
Purity, mother tree
It’s children sweet and full of love
Oh little orange tree
Grown from a single seed