Showing posts with label vivian kurkjian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vivian kurkjian. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Vivian Kurkjian: To A Sagittarian

(The Archer -- Prudence, with Curved Lines)

That studious face you wear, My Pet,
Deprives you of the sweet mundane.
And so I beg, if once again
We chance to meet and you should
Whisper "Dearest" to my back,
Do me the favor so I will know
That you and I are blood and flesh--
Pinch me--very hard.

Friday, December 22, 2006

Vivian Kurkjian: Love's Colors

I met him once
when we were very young
and green was the color we chose.

A thousand years
have passed a thousand hues
and love has come again,
dressed in blue.

This poem has previously appeared in Garig Basmajian's Armenian-American poets: a bilingual anthology, published by AGBU in 1976.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Vivian Kurkjian: Poem of Love

I will pull my hair back
In an old maid's knot
And don the widest rimmed spectacles
I can find
To hide from you
And the other men until you see
What does not show
And only then
Will I let
These long brown locks fall
As you see fit.

This poem has appeared in "ARMENIAN-NORTH AMERICAN POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY" (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Manna Publishing, 1974). Lorne Shirinian, editor.