French heartthrob - Sixties generation!
Young Alain Delon tried the patience
Of parents – so was fostered out;
His life was restless, plagued with doubt…
Raw talent – saved from life of crime
Lured by the Movies just in time
Courted, loved, admired, respected
Soon by Louis Malle directed.
Then Jean-Luc Goddard, Antonioni
Propelled to fame this one and only!
See Visconti’s: “Rocco and his brothers”
And a kaleidoscope of others!
Although untrained, his star soon rose
A whirl of actresses he knows!
He throws his love-net ever wider
But none compares with Romy Schneider!
“Un Flic”, “The Leopard”, “Purple Moon”,
For this sex
symbol – ladies swoon!
A long career, a household name;
Then age took its toll – a shame…
Failing health, Légion d’honneur;
In the background - always there
Until his death* at eighty-eight;
Let’s sum him up in one word: great!
(c) Poet in the woods 2024
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