ARMENIAN POETRY PROJECT

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My World  Just like everyone else, I like to watch the world come together on my screen. And I like to prove that I care,  not search...

Mine was the walking on the rails,  the head down walking on the rails in the rain was mine. If I was sad, I wasn’t broken, w...

“The clever device of the lyre, it is said, was invented by Hermes” --Philostratus of Lemnos Soon I will be holding (you are dying) you...

Now looking up, taking roll, I hear them: My own two voices (my own forked tongue.) Am I taking roll or taking names? Starting to lecture I ...

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They took her...  I heard with horrified anguish that they had branded her sunny forehead and cheeks...  Vahan Totovents i love ...

          "I wait for you still,                     as if you could arrive"                    "You Have Not Died "...

the wind picks up the sun is gone you have a few minutes to gather up your things

They sold the youngest and most  handsome of every village where they  passed the night,  and these girls have  been trafficked in hu...

for Zareh Kapikian (1898-1989) and in memory of Albert Zaven Kapikian (1930-2014) The ferries weren't running to the island, Ell...

You have studied for this ransomed thirty years with three How to draw your last star How to look at the world One last time. It is wh...

the last light    loiters wet in the trees a voice     waivers unwombing dawn I unweed your tapestry of stars. Some bleed when I yank...

Forget about us, about our generation. We have envied plants and stones, we envied dogs Myra Sklarew The Science of Goodbyes Th...

Tonight is for the way we rush in lingering, looking back at the blasting furnace of hopes that is the year just past for the way we tra...

Earthworms exhaust themselves to inch Below the frost. Frogs, turtles and turds Stiffen in the grass. Above ground, bees flinch; Only que...

For my nephew Alexander Zareh Kapikian You command our attention Just by the tremor of your lips Or by the beauty resulting From the...