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Genocide Commemoration in N.Y.
APRIL 24, 2010 * GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION. A community commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Featuring keynote speaker Prof. Peter Balakian. Organized by the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America, with the participation of our community organizations. Begins at 7 p.m. at the St. Illuminator’s Cathedral, 221 East 27 St. in New York City. Details to follow.
Please: Can you put this poem on poetry site for remembrance Date?
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The Remembrance Date* Is to Paint Tulips,
Never Sprain Flowers, Throw Lifeless in Heaps
Is it fair to remember our genocide
By fresh flowers sprained from fresh stems.
What mistakes have the flowers done,
To be thrown on stones, ending April hems?*
To live for a few hours, then turn to ashes!
For a day or two for the lost spirits left sensed,
Hence, repeating every year, in unskilled trade craze.
Mourning beautiful plants like Armenian corpses in piles.
Why must soulful plants suffer for dears in vain?
Letting floras dry to alleviate our saddest strain.
On account of happy flowers! Dancing in bushing hives!
Are we behaving unkindly to altruistic plants our allies?
Let every one of us paint red Armenian tulip: “bloody-red”
For the innocents tortured, by harsh hands in their heads.
That means millions of Araratian lalas expressess the arts of pains,
Condensed under cracked ribs, praying to compel in fain.
Contributions will send helpful shares
To establish schools named “Genocidal Tulips”
Teaching young cohorts dusking on Internet screens
The integrative facts attempt to achieve the ‘real peace’.
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Armenian Genocide began on April 24, 1915, and continued till 1923.
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Armenian Genocide began on April 24, 1915, and continued till 1923.