Tom Vartabedian is a retired journalist with the Haverhill Gazette, where he spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and photographer. He has volunteered his services for the past 46 years as
a columnist and correspondent with the Armenian Weekly, where his pet project was the publication of a special issue of the AYF Olympics each September.
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Nice to be young …
Nice to get old…
If you enjoyed each age
Had a real love
You lived a century…and hence
You filled your life
With grace and gold…
I call you “Lucky Vartabed”
Because you have old things and very old…
You kept and enjoyed still using all
None of them genocided in the desert of Der zor…
Till you called your self old…
I can see you, you’re still young
Holding your old camera with your powerful hands
As if she is your true beloved
Still watching the sea …
Watching the flying birds arriving from many sites
Enjoying to shot them with your old light gun…
Enjoy your life and never feel old
The old man is defined
Who never contribute
To his community
But you!…No…
You did a lot…
We can see and wish to you
To do more and mores…!
Sylva-MD-Poetry
May 25, 2013
Written instantly
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Vertan please edit my English if you find mistakes
as the English Language is my 3rd language
and never can be be the first,
thus I expect many mistakes…!!!
What a heart warming article Tom ! I know exactly how you feel ! Sorry about the “Special” plate…
Nice to be young …
Nice to get old…
If you enjoyed each age
Had a real love
You lived a century…and hence
You filled your life
With grace and gold…
I call you “Lucky Vartabed”
Because you have old things and very old…
You kept and enjoyed still using all
None of them genocided in the desert of Der zor…
Till you called your self old…
I can see you, you’re still young
Holding your old camera with your powerful hands
As if she is your true beloved
Still watching the sea …
Watching the flying birds arriving from many sites
Enjoying to shot them with your old light gun…
Enjoy your life and never feel old
The old man is defined
Who never contribute
To his community
But you!…No…
You did a lot…
We can see and wish to you
To do more and mores…!
Sylva-MD-Poetry
May 25, 2013
Written instantly
_____________
Vertan please edit my English if you find mistakes
as the English Language is my 3rd language
and never can be be the first,
thus I expect many mistakes…!!!
What a heart warming article Tom ! I know exactly how you feel ! Sorry about the “Special” plate…