Ara Baliozian: The Human Condition

We walk like apes
Eat like cannibals
Talk like parrots
Fight like dragons
And call ourselves
Civilized human beings.



This poem has appeared in Armenian-American Poets: A Bilingual Anthology. Garig Basmadjian (Translator).

Ara Baliozian: Haiku

Little toadstools
On the lawn:
Reminders of Hiroshima.



This poem has appeared in Armenian-American Poets: A Bilingual Anthology. Garig Basmadjian (Translator).

Ara Baliozian: Dreams/Nightmares

When dreams
Come true/They turn
Into nightmares.


Armenian-American Poets: A Bilingual Anthology, ed. and trans. Garig Basmadjian (Detroit, MI: Alex Manoogian Cultural Fund of the Armenian General Benevolent Union, 1976).