Fireflies and The Warmest of Hugs
Fireflies I was taught not to fight darkness But to light a candle instead. As this world collapses One bullet at a time, I carry a candlestick Wherever I go. As bullets Land on my […]
Fireflies I was taught not to fight darkness But to light a candle instead. As this world collapses One bullet at a time, I carry a candlestick Wherever I go. As bullets Land on my […]
Dear homeland, As you bleed from your open wounds And scream the melody of pain, I can’t help but notice The red flowers of Saryan in the rivers of your blood And the voice of […]
“It’s hard not to think of the prompt for this year’s Young Armenian Poets Awards (YAPA) as a dark harbinger of things to come for the Armenian people of Artsakh and, indeed, all Armenians around […]
Author’s note: I’m deeply grateful to Arthur Ovanesian and Perla Kantarjian for their invaluable suggestions. Yet again history has decided to visit the present. Like always, it has come unannounced, empty-handed. Once more, we said: […]
I didn’t realize it was a date – I never do. This skin, wrapped in so many layers, has forgotten where it begins. He was sweet – he always is. The conversation simmered as the […]
Driving through the gates Of this sleeping place, We pass potter’s field and turn up the hill Dotted with flat, tipped stones Toward the Armenian section. When Yankee names turn Greek We know we’re close […]
Cracked wheat, Ground beef, Onions, peppers, tomatoes. Food from the old country. Food of my people. Farmers, merchants, textile artists Fight oppression for 1,500 years. Forced out in 1915 Bringing the food with them. Growing […]
Rough map in hand, the bereft walk all roads in search of name and place, word and photo. The lost ones strain to be found as accomplices hold them behind brick walls and build new […]
On a warm sunny day In beautiful and Peaceful Yerevan Today and the sky is So blue and sun It’s so bright And the little birds are Singing so passionately In the warm Gyumri sunlight […]
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