Julien Ghouliance: Words
Հայ Բանաստեղծութեան Համացանցը։ Projet de Poésie Arménienne
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 1/31/2013 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: 2012 Competition, Contemporary, Julien Ghouliance, USA
someday we will climb Mount Ararat and the
remains of Noah's skiff will splinter into our
thumbs and the pads of our fingertips, our
knees will be rubbed red raw by her crags, but
after a week we will sit on her summit Masis and with
throbbing hands and patellae, we will weep over the
clip-winged sparrows and the village of Van where our family
once fashioned jewelry on an estate that lives in
the dreams that were only our grandmother's
faintest and fondest of memories
Mama was only thirteen when the slaughter
began, she sat on the granite wall with a beautiful
box, but her family couldn't bring everything, they had to
leave things behind for the terror to take: the goats
and the uncles and the bodies not yet things they could
call corpses riddled with hatred, stuffed with hearts still
clenched in their fists in their fear in their crumpling
rib cages, still wronged, everything was wrong...
Armenian children are not apples in their mother's
eyes-- we are yellow-orange apricots dried by the
sun and cradled in the palms of those who cradled
us in their tender, weeping wombs; I am my
mother's apricot, and my wrinkles crinkle beneath my
skin because the children of a genocide are from
their first scream, old, and Mom, you and I are remnants
of a place and time raped but we have never allowed
ourselves to die because between the eyes, the muzzle
of a gun is just a molehill and
when we climb Ararat, sweet mother of our grandmothers, we
will watch time tunnel back to Siran and Keghanoush
drawing water and grinning in the sun, and sitting on her
peak Masis, we will weep over the sparrows and the village and
the apricots wrinkled in the dirt, lost from their mother's
palms and spotted from the moisture of our tears:
someday we won't be the only ones who remember.
Rachel Megan Maclean, the winner for the student category is from Northside High School, Roanoke, VA.
She is 17 years old and studies with Mrs. Sally McFall
Honourable mentions to:
Julien Ghouliance 7th grade
Shant Dikran, and Hovig Manoyan, both 6th grade.
St. Gregory Hovsepian School, Pasadena, CA
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 1/30/2013 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: 2012 Competition, Contemporary, Rachel Megan Maclean, USA
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 1/27/2013 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: AGUSTÍN TAVITIAN, Argentina, Translated into French
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Labels: Christopher Janigian, Contemporary, USA
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Labels: USA, William Saroyan
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Labels: USA, William Saroyan
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 1/15/2013 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Canada, Contemporary, Rupen Khajag, Translated into English
Here we go round the mulberry bush
So quoth T.S. Eliot
but it's a tree, not a bush,
grand, spreading, broad-leafed.
At the bottom of the garden
the neighbours' mulberry tree
could be climbed from our side
and we did. It had
broad silk-worm leaves,
thick trunk and branches
and small purple berries
that stained us
black as the mountains
of Karabakh.*
*Named “black mountains” for the abundant mulberry trees.
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 1/07/2013 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Contemporary, Israel, Michael E. Stone
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 1/06/2013 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Book, Lebanon, Translated into English, Vahe Vahian
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 1/05/2013 07:00:00 AM 2 comments
Labels: Talin Özkalaycı Dökmecioğlu, Turkey
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Labels: Nazim Hikmet, Translated into Armenian, Turkey
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Labels: Contemporary, Philip Levine, USA
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 12/31/2012 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Turkey, Zareh Khrakhouni
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 12/26/2012 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Contemporary, Esther Heboyan, France
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 12/25/2012 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Contemporary, Esther Heboyan, France
Դեկտեմբերի վերջին օէրը - կէս գիշերին
Սեղանի մը շուրջ հաւաքուեցանք
Կաղանդը պիտի գայ ըսին
Սպասեցինք
Եւ չեկաւ
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 12/24/2012 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Contemporary, Ikna Sariaslan, Turkey
Posted by Armenian Poetry Project at 12/08/2012 07:00:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Contemporary, Israel, Michael E. Stone
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