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Sand</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/Gh_ryZkn6b0/cheri-babajian-miles-of-dirt-and-sand.html</link><category>USA</category><category>Cheri Babajian</category><category>Contemporary</category><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:00:05 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-1202979768300996426</guid><description>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Forced across miles of dirt and sand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Singed not only the soles of their feet on the land,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;But sent shock waves of pain deep into the souls&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Of men, women and children, forced into roles&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;That none had chosen but at gun point coerced,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Pushed along in terror, parched in thirst,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Watched in horror as loved ones no longer stand&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;From murderers’ hands or the stark stinging sand.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Parents screamed as their children collapsed,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;And cried out in desperation unable to grasp&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;That Hell had opened up right at their feet&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;In the faces of Turkish soldiers intent on defeat&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Of the Armenian people…a true genocide.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;While a generation of youth and intellectuals died&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;For no other reason than their ethnicity&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hatred so vile—no empathy!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Scientists, scholars, poets and more&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Captured, tortured-- wiped out at the core.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The nightmare returns as I sleep in my bed&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;A comfortable place where I lay my head&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;In soft and warm bedding until the scene comes
again&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;As I see my tribe bleeding …I see Turkish sin.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I feel myself walking across hot desert sands&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Parched, weak and frail, it is hard to stand.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I am angry with every gasp of air that I breathe&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;And feel protective of all of my brethren I see.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;As I choke on the dust from the dirt and debris&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I wonder why no one has set my people free.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I see beautiful children slaughtered by grown men.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Innocent young ones unable to defend&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Themselves, as their parents have already died&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;On the blood soaked trail of deceit and lies.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I gasp for air as my lungs search for more &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;And awaken confused and away from the horror.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Stand up and demand that the truth will be known!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;All nations, all people must take hold and own&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Their past, their present and their future too.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;No immunity from truth, for me or for you.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Copyright Cheri Babajian 2013. This poem appears on APP with kind permission of the poet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/Gh_ryZkn6b0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-04-01T07:00:05.369-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/04/cheri-babajian-miles-of-dirt-and-sand.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Tatul Sonentz: Letter to Hovsep</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/tERjlNdz-bs/tatul-sonentz-letter-to-hovsep.html</link><category>USA</category><category>Tatul Sonentz-Papazian</category><category>Contemporary</category><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:00:03 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-2294774789226355782</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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When beheaded&lt;/div&gt;
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on your native
soil&lt;/div&gt;
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on a bright
April day&lt;/div&gt;
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by those with
dark souls&lt;/div&gt;
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whose brood
still do worship&lt;/div&gt;
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gray wolves on
moonlit nights&lt;/div&gt;
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you were a much
younger man&lt;/div&gt;
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than my
sons–your own grandsons&lt;/div&gt;
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whose blood was
spilled that day&lt;/div&gt;
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long before they
were born…&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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That – we’re
told – is our yesterday &lt;/div&gt;
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that never was
or ever happened&lt;/div&gt;
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to be banished
from memory&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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and to be
interred in haste &lt;/div&gt;
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with your
severed head&lt;/div&gt;
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in the name of
today&lt;/div&gt;
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as the pack of
gray wolves &lt;/div&gt;
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howls a lewd
dirge of sublime&lt;/div&gt;
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rapture and joy
at the final burial &lt;/div&gt;
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of all recall of
their forebear’s crime… &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; * * *&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Allow me to call
you Hovsep&lt;/div&gt;
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since I am your
elder now&lt;/div&gt;
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and in my mind
you are&lt;/div&gt;
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and will forever
be&lt;/div&gt;
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the young father&lt;/div&gt;
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of my mother&lt;/div&gt;
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loving husband&lt;/div&gt;
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of my
grandmother…&lt;/div&gt;
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Hovsep--my
faceless&lt;/div&gt;
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headless silent
forebear&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/div&gt;
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forever spouse
and parent&lt;/div&gt;
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yet a mute and
blind memory &lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; …of a lost grandfather.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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------------&lt;b&gt;Tatul
Sonentz&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArmenianPoetry?a=tERjlNdz-bs:HYucBUGZKlE:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArmenianPoetry?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/tERjlNdz-bs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-04-11T07:00:03.929-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/04/tatul-sonentz-letter-to-hovsep.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>20 poetas de Armenia (UBA)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/osLxQmB-NSg/20-poetas-de-armenia.html</link><category>Argentina</category><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:42:59 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-7647799576903067616</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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El 22 de abril a las 19.30 horas en el Salón Azul de la Facultad de Derecho, UBA, 20 poetas de Armenia&lt;/div&gt;
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La caída de la Unión Soviética, la Tercer República de Armenia, la guerra de Nagorno Karabagh.&lt;/div&gt;
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La violencia, la melancolía, la rabia, la desintegración, el amor.&lt;/div&gt;
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Por primera vez el Cáucaso Sur en Latinoamérica.&lt;/div&gt;
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20 poetas de la Armenia de hoy traducidos al castellano.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/osLxQmB-NSg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-04-11T11:42:59.965-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/04/20-poetas-de-armenia.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>I Left My Shoes In Istanbul (film trailer)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/AjWFMziERlU/i-left-my-shoes-in-istanbul-film-trailer.html</link><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:40:37 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-1926620399660237074</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I Left My Shoes in Istanbul,” a documentary film by Beirut-based writer and 
director Nigol Bezjian, was screened at the Istanbul Independent Film Festival 
in February. The film chronicles the journey of a Lebanese-born Armenian poet 
through his first visit to the city, and the discovery of his cultural roots. It 
first premiered at the Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan last summer, and 
finally made its way to the titular city of Istanbul.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/04/06/film-about-armenian-istanbul-premieres-in-turkey/" target="_blank"&gt;Read the entire article in the Armenian Weekly.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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Film by Nigol Bezjian (1955, Aleppo, Syria)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/ZAG-3ksdjgw" target="_blank"&gt;http://youtu.be/ZAG-3ksdjgw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArmenianPoetry?a=AjWFMziERlU:zlOQnucgZWI:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArmenianPoetry?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/AjWFMziERlU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-04-16T14:40:37.017-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-left-my-shoes-in-istanbul-film-trailer.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Armenia Hosts an International Poetry Festival </title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/PAdpTgvRMP4/armenia-hosts-poetry-festival.html</link><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:28:07 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-7414137073493396751</guid><description>&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
Yerevan hosted its first International Poetry Festival. Over 50 notable foreign poets from 30 countries attended the festival, and an anthology of 50 poets was published in Armenian and English.&lt;/div&gt;
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The Union of Writers invited each poet to plant a tree to make the Poetry Square. The union also marked the 500th anniversary of book-printing in Armenia.&lt;br /&gt;
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As reported by the Armenian Diocese in New York City:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;This week at Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, received the participants of the International Poetry Festival taking place in Armenia. His Holiness offered his pontifical blessings and best wishes to the visitors, and encouraged them to use their God-given talents to foster peace and love in the world.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The poetry festival, organized by Levon Ananyan, president of Armenia’s Writers Union, drew poets and writers from 30 countries for a week of readings and workshops. As part of the program, participants also planted acacia trees in a new poetry park in Yerevan.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The festival was organized in the spirit of last year’s celebration of Yerevan as the UNESCO World Book Capital.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/PAdpTgvRMP4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-04-18T19:28:07.582-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/04/armenia-hosts-poetry-festival.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Birth of Taniel Varoujan (April 20, 1884)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/JvfXJCBcE_0/birth-of-taniel-varoujan-april-20-1884.html</link><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 04:17:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-6061555935848283205</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
Taniel Chibukkiarian was born in the village of Perknik, in the vilayet of Sepastia. After attending the local school, in 1896 he went to Constantinople, where he attended one of the schools of the Mekhitarist Congregation of Venice. He then continued his education at the Moorat-Raphaelian school of Venice from 1902-1905. In 1905 he entered the University of Ghent, in Belgium, where he followed courses in literature, sociology, and economics. He adopted the surname Varoujan (from an Armenian word that means "male dove") when he started to publish his poems. In 1906 he published his first volume of poetry, Shivers, followed the next year by a booklet that contained a long poem, The Massacre. He graduated in 1909 and returned to the Ottoman Empire. The same year he published a new volume, Heart of the Race, which established him as a poet.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Returning to Sepastia, he became a teacher between 1909 and 1912. In 1910 he married his student, Araksi Tashjian, vanquishing the opposition of her father. In 1912 they moved to Constantinople, where he became the principal of the St. Gregory the Illuminator School until his deportation in April 1915.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;He published a new and even more powerful collection of poetry, Pagan Songs, in 1912. In late 1913 he joined forces with four young writers, Kostan Zarian (1885-1969), Hagop Oshagan (1883-1948), Kegham Parseghian (1883-1915), and Aharon Dadourian (1888-1965), to create the group "Mehyan." They issued a manifesto that called for the renovation of Armenian literature and language, and founded a short-lived but important monthly journal, Mehyan, that published seven issues (January-July 1914). Due to aesthetic divergences, Varoujan left the group after the third issue (March 1914).&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; The poet had three children: Veronica, Armen, and Haig. His wife was pregnant with their third child, when Varoujan was included in the Turkish black list and arrested on the night of April 23-24, 1915, by the police with hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and leaders. He was deported to Changr (Chankiri) together with many of his colleagues, where they lived in a sort of internal exile for the next two months. On August 26, 1915, along with his friend, the poet and physician Rupen Sevag (Chilingirian, 1885-1915), and three other Armenians, they were taken to Kalayjek. On the road, following a previous plan, a group of Turkish chetes (irregular soldiers) attacked the carriage that transported them. They were forced to take their clothes out, and then savagely assassinated. The same day, Varoujan's son, Haig, was born in Constantinople.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The poet's papers had been confiscated at the time of his arrest. In 1921 his wife Araksi was able to recover, after paying a hefty bribe, his unfinished last book, The Song of the Bread, which was published the same year in Constantinople.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; After his death, Varoujan's works were published in no less than thirty editions over the past nine decades. Collections of his poetry have been also published in French and Italian. His daughter Veronica Safrasian (1910-2009) lived for many years in New York, while his younger son Haig (1915-2002) passed away in Fresno.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/JvfXJCBcE_0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-04-20T07:17:00.303-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YkwgKOXX0X8/UXB_svRbudI/AAAAAAAABeY/V9dNNoh_6j8/s72-c/041813-01.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/04/birth-of-taniel-varoujan-april-20-1884.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Frank J Cunningham: KHACHATURIAN’S LULLABY</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/2uPAJw3Gj2g/frank-j-cunningham-khachaturians-lullaby.html</link><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:00:47 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-3304119863297157822</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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In Memoriam of &lt;a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/photointro.html"&gt;The Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Sleep, sleep away young child&lt;br /&gt;

Twist and turn in the dark -&lt;br /&gt;

Dream lightly on.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

I relate our tale of woe, woe&lt;br /&gt;

in all it’s depth of saddening loss.&lt;br /&gt;

The madness so long endured&lt;br /&gt;

The waste of youth demanded&lt;br /&gt;

Mother’s grief handed down&lt;br /&gt;

Creeping of seasons past seasons.&lt;br /&gt;

Hush, Hush, Wake not……sleep, sleep.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

Invaders came through the ages&lt;br /&gt;

Plundered, Ravaged, Destroyed.&lt;br /&gt;

On and on cross centuries&lt;br /&gt;

come screams of nothingness -&lt;br /&gt;

Blowing o’er our trampled lives.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

Then the greatest trial of all –&lt;br /&gt;

Words fail me to describe the horror&lt;br /&gt;

So, so many lost in that long, long march -&lt;br /&gt;

Of brutal life or death.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

We mouth the past in our native tongue&lt;br /&gt;

Let loose yearnings for those now gone&lt;br /&gt;

We, the flickering emblems of our race&lt;br /&gt;

Hold fast our culture, long,&lt;br /&gt;

in music, words and dance.&lt;br /&gt;

Pummeled, Squashed again yet again&lt;br /&gt;

Near to obliteration&lt;br /&gt;

Still, always, some sparks…a glow -&lt;br /&gt;

Where burns the hope.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

Devastated, Broken,&amp;nbsp; Rebuilt,&amp;nbsp; Smashed&lt;br /&gt;

Countless times,&amp;nbsp; Empire after Empire&lt;br /&gt;

Must we …To what end -&lt;br /&gt;

Bent in servitude.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

Beyond reason&lt;br /&gt;

I exist&lt;br /&gt;

Lost in red haze of blood and rage&lt;br /&gt;

Blinded by tears&lt;br /&gt;

This orgy of humanity&lt;br /&gt;

History I tread, ours and others&lt;br /&gt;

To thrive on knowing&lt;br /&gt;

We are not alone –&lt;br /&gt;

The scythe’s edge dulls.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

Hark the deafening sighs, who’s listening.&lt;br /&gt;

Walk the villages of tears, who’s weeping.&lt;br /&gt;

I sing you words of ours&lt;br /&gt;

that caress our ways.&lt;br /&gt;

Now is my piece of happiness&lt;br /&gt;

recalling greater days -&lt;br /&gt;

As you grow in slumber.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

This great treasure of lore,&lt;br /&gt;

though laced with strife&lt;br /&gt;

I pass on&lt;br /&gt;

To flood your tranquil mind.&lt;br /&gt;

Torrents of thoughts&lt;br /&gt;

on our people’s strength&lt;br /&gt;

That conquers all –&lt;br /&gt;

Now you slowly stir.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

My songs echoing&lt;br /&gt;

Through your dreams&lt;br /&gt;

I try to rise, rise up.&lt;br /&gt;

To you I will&lt;br /&gt;

Many a bright dawning day –&lt;br /&gt;

This time is yours my child.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jAgyB6tPPs"&gt;VIDEO of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Rehearsal held on June 27th, 2009 for 
World Premier Performance, on Nantucket, MA, June 28th, 
2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Armen Ghazaryan (Violinist), Frank 
J Cunningham (Poet) &amp;amp; Robert Behrman (Piano) performing Cunningham’s poem 
“Lullaby” written for Aram Khachaturian’s Ballet “Gayane”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArmenianPoetry?a=2uPAJw3Gj2g:9fvR5IgMdMQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArmenianPoetry?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/2uPAJw3Gj2g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-04-24T10:00:47.957-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/04/frank-j-cunningham-khachaturians-lullaby.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Birth of Hovhannes Shiraz (April 27, 1915)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/9JBwb6-TB50/birth-of-hovhannes-shiraz-april-27-1915.html</link><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:53:58 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-2847214857063610241</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Poet Hovhannes Shiraz, one of the most popular names in Armenia and the Diaspora during Soviet times, was born in Alexandropol (later Leninakan, now Gumri), in 1915. His birth name was Onik Karapetian. At the age of five, he lost his father, who was killed in the Turkish invasion of Armenia that followed the Armenian-Turkish war of 1920. He grew in poverty. He went to work at the textile factory of Leninakan in 1932. He published his first poems in the factory newspapers. Apparently, he first signed them with the pseudonym Hovhannes Shirak (Gumri is located in the plain of Shirak).&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; One year later, he was hired as teacher in the village of Haji Nazar (now Kamo), in the district of Akhurian. He published his first book of poetry, “Spring Initiation,” in 1935, with the pseudonym Hovhannes Shiraz. According to his testimony, writer Atrpet (1860-1937) gave him the pseudonym of Shiraz (a city in Iran, well known for its flowers), saying: “The poems of this young man have the perfume of the fresh and dew-covered roses of Shiraz.” In the same year, Shiraz became a member of the Writers Union of Armenia.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; He attended the Faculty of Philology of the Yerevan State University between 1941 and 1947, where he studied Armenian language and literature. Afterwards, he lived from his pen. He also followed the courses of the Institute of Literature Maxim Gorky of Moscow from 1952-1954.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Shiraz’s most important collection of poetry was “Lyre of Armenia” (three volumes, 1958, 1965, and 1974). He won the State Prize of Soviet Armenia in 1975 and the Hovhannes Tumanian prize in 1982.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Although the press run of his books was over half a million copies and his poems were translated into 58 languages, Shiraz ran into many problems with censorship. His patriotic poetry, particularly his evocation of the historical injustice suffered by Armenians and the lost territories of Western Armenia and, at the time, Gharabagh, was forbidden several times. In 1974, when the well-known literary critic Suren Aghababian told Shiraz about receiving the Lenin Medal, the response was: “And what do they want from me in exchange? To buy my silence?”&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; He was never allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union, but many of his unpublished poems were smuggled outside the country and published in the Diaspora press. For instance, the first draft of his poem “The Armenian Dante,” about the Armenian Genocide, was written in 1941. Only a few excerpts were published in Armenia during his lifetime and a few chapters in Beirut and Tehran. The entire poem was posthumously published in 1990. His poem “Ani,” about the medieval capital of Armenia, written in 1950, was also published in excerpts in the Diaspora, and the final edition only appeared in 2012.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Shiraz first married poet Silva Kaputikian (1919-2006). They had a son, the future sculptor Ara Shiraz. Shiraz and his second wife, Shushan, had seven children, including poet Sipan Shiraz (1967-1997).&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Shiraz, who had become a living legend, passed away in Yerevan on March 14, 1984. He was buried in the pantheon of Komitas Park, where many famous Armenians are buried.&lt;br /&gt;
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A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a poem in honor of Daniel Varoujan, 
an Armenian poet killed in the genocide in Turkey in 1915. Submit a poem with a 
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/YajKo6jiUGo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-02T12:37:38.716-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/05/daniel-varoujan-award.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A quiet anniversary</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/rxTaYENCgqs/a-quiet-anniversary.html</link><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 07:11:06 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-8882058271191632800</guid><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;On April 30, 2013, The Armenian Poetry Project turned&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; &lt;b&gt;7&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This one was a quiet celebration.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;With hundreds of daily visitors and over 1900 entries, we are by no means resting on our laurels.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I believe APP helped me achieve several goals: bringing Armenian poetry to an international audience; access to the masses, including those who don't have Armenian books in their homes and public libraries; encouraging readers to discover new writers, while providing forgotten poems and their authors a new readership.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;If you have noticed that the number of entries has slowed down recently, it is because we are coming up with new ideas and projects:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;1 - Resources for groups who want to start their own &lt;b&gt;DEAD ARMENIAN POETS SOCIETY&lt;/b&gt;. This was the core of what eventually became APP. I will be writing some guidelines on how to run evenings dedicated to readings of works by late Armenian authors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;2. As a way of archiving, I will be copying our audio files to &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;SoundCloud&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. The new group has already been created and episodes will be uploaded in the future. This will help APP reach a larger audience as the blog format restricts us for posting them all in the same page, and iTunes cannot archive old episodes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The APP group on SoundCloud will be&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/groups/armenian-poetry-project" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;3. Resources for Armenian poetry workshops.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;4. Support for cultural events and help in finding authors for reading series in the United States and Canada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;5. Support for the annual poetry competition, which for the last three years has been sponsored by the ASA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;. Regular postings -- albeit not daily -- of poems, translations and announcements.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I invite all readers to stay in touch, add comments and share your thoughts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;All best, and thank you for being a reader and supporter of the APP.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Lola Koundakjian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Curator and Director, The Armenian Poetry Project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/VTT2Q3DPnAA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-08T06:50:24.834-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/05/armenian-literature-featured-in.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Readership continues to grow</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/4quhDqXtMOQ/readership-continues-to-grow.html</link><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 09:02:45 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-115293378520186003</guid><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;We are celebrating the 7th anniversary of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Armenian Poetry Project.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To date, APP&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;has received over 433,000 hits and 29,400 audio downloads since its debut in May 2006. Readership has spread to over 100 countries &lt;i&gt;where the lonely and the curious reach out to poetry &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;TM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Heartfelt thanks:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To you, our readers -- you make it all possible. Your constant encouragement motivates the authors, the translators and the teachers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Catherine Fletcher and the editorial staff at &lt;a href="http://rattapallax.org/blog/2012/armenian-poetry-after-the-genocide/" target="_blank"&gt;Rattapallax&lt;/a&gt; for devoting a special feature on post-Genocide Armenian Poetry.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Peter Balakian, James Baloian, Sarkis Vahaken, Jean Assadour, Alan Whitehorn, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Aram Ketenjian, Panos Jeranian and William Michaelian (HG!) who sent their books and notes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Aram Saroyan,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Gregory Djanikian,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Michael Casey, Sotère Torregian, Lorne Shirinian, Raffi Setian, Lory Bedikian of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Poetry Matters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;, Nancy Kricorian, Esther Heboyan, Keith Garebian, Nora Nadjarian, Nancy Agabian of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;GARTAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;, Jim Erkiletian, Michael Akillian, Hagop Djelalian, Mark Gavoor, Garo Armenian and other contemporary authors for their permission to post their poems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Dr. Levon Avdoyan, of the Library of Congress, for his assistance in researching books.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Nvair Kadian Beylerian for use of her grandfather Anoush Krikorian's library. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Zachary Jean Chartkoff for his contribution of books to the ever expanding APP library.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Artsvi Bakhchinyan and Vartan Matiossian for their scholarship and translations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Prof. Dora Sakayan for her translations of Paruyr Sevak and her enthusiasm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Prof. Valentina Calzonari for her translations published in the series&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Patrimoine littéraire&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;J.-C. POLET (éd.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To L.A.'s &lt;i&gt;Zephyr Poets&lt;/i&gt; --Tina Demirdjian, Armine Iknadossian, Shahé Mankerian and Alene Terzian); Karen Karslyan, and Ara Shirinyan, for their support and partication in readings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Albert Kaprielian for his aid in getting documents on Canadian-Armenian poet Sha[u]nt Basmajian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Sako Arian&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;for his contribution of books&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Per Wik who introduced his grandfather Harout Kosdantyan and his work&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Elizabeth Grigorian for her assistance at the Glendale Public Library&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To the judges of the first, second and third annual Arthur Halvajian Memorial poetry writing competition sponsored by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;ASA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;: Garen Kazanc, Christopher Janigian; Lisa Whitten, Silva Ajamian, Dr. Rachel Goshgarian, Father Mesrop Lakissian and Alice Movsesian.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Louise Kiffer of France and Sylvie M. Miller of Monaco for their translations of poems into French, and Tatul Sonentz for this translations into Armenian, French and English.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To the budding poets who send me emails and who participated in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd anniversary "Poetry Blasts", and APP's poetry writing competition in 2010, 2011 and 2012.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To the volunteer readers who contributed their voices to 19th - 21st century authors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To the staff at &lt;i&gt;Horizon&lt;/i&gt; Weekly's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Literary Supplement (Montréal)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;; the &lt;i&gt;Aztag&lt;/i&gt; Daily's Literary and Arts Supplement (Beirut); the New York Public Library (Humanities Research); the Glendale Public Library; the Zohrab Center (New York); the Armenian Prelacy (New York); the AGBU's Bibliothèque Nubar (Paris); and, the Librairie Samuélian (Paris).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To various institutions and blogs such as the&lt;i&gt; Armenian Educational Portal &lt;/i&gt;who have provided links to this site. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Lola Koundakjian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Curator and Producer of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The Armenian Poetry Project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Un idioma también es un incendio &lt;/i&gt;(Alción editora - Activo Puente)&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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We are happy to announce the publication of this book edited by our colleague Ana Arzoumanian. The book will be presented in Argentina on April 22, 2013.&lt;br /&gt;
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Voici comment vous pouvez taper en arménien.&lt;br /&gt;
Here is a step to step guide on how to type in Armenian&lt;br /&gt;
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Nayiri.com, an online dictionary source, gives excellent information on how to type in Armenian. Here's the link to the how-to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.nayiri.com/docs?l=en" target="_blank"&gt;page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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You may print this keyboard to help you with Western Armenian typing. Other keyboards are available on the Nayiri site.&lt;br /&gt;
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Good luck/Bonne chance/Յաջողութիւն՝ Լօլա&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Մի աչքով եմ նայում կյանքին:&lt;/div&gt;
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(Երկրորդ աչքըս ապակուց է):&lt;/div&gt;
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Եվ մի հատիկ իմ այս աչքով&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Շատ եմ տեսնում,&lt;/div&gt;
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Իսկ երկրորդով՝ ավելի՛ շատ,&lt;/div&gt;
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Որովհետև&lt;/div&gt;
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Առողջ աչքով ես տեսնում եմ,&lt;/div&gt;
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Իսկ կույր աչքով... մի՜շտ երազում...&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;14.XI.1963 թ.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Երևան&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;(«Դիմակներ» շարքից)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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ու հիմա գրում եմ էս մի քանի տողը&lt;/div&gt;
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որ հասկանամ թե ինչու&lt;/div&gt;
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էսքան միանգամից ու էսքան շատ&lt;/div&gt;
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սիրեցի քաղաքը որ կոչել են նյու յորք&lt;/div&gt;
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էնքան շատ սիրեցի որ հիմա ինչ էլ գրեմ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
կլինի նամակ նույն հասցեով&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
դու երբեք չես կարող&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
հանդիպել բոլոր էն մարդկանց&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
որոնք կարող էին լինել քո ընկերը&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
բայց իրանք թողնում են նշաններ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
որ դու հասկանաս որ մենակ չես&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
որ դու համոզվես քո ընկերները կան&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
չնայած դու իրանց երեւի արդեն չես հանդիպի&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
որովհետեւ մեծ&amp;nbsp; ա տարածությունը&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
եւ քիչ ա ժամանակը&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
սեմ բեքեթ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
արի տուն&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
գրած էր շենքի վրա&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
թարթող լույսերով&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ու քանի որ բեքեթը&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
էլ չի կարող գալ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ուրեմն էդ բառերը&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
իմ համար էին գրած&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ես էլ կանգնել նայում էի&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
բայց ո՞ւր ա տունը&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
տուն չկա&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
կան անտուններ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ու կա նյու յորքը&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
սեմ բեքեթ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
արի տուն&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
արի տուն&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
արի&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
հետո երբ որ տուն էկա&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
երեւան&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ինտերնետով search արեցի&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
էդ բառերը&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ու իմացա որ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
էդ նախադասությունը&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
չինացի մի արտիստ էր սարքել&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
հա էլի&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
չայնաթաունում էր էդ շենքը&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
նյու յորքի չինաստանում&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ես էլ առանց իմանալու&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
հայաստանից հասել&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
կանգնել էի էդ շենքի առաջ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
որ պատահաբար&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
կարդամ վրան գրածը.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
սեմ բեքեթ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
արի տուն&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
արի տուն&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
արի&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
մարդը սարքում ա տուն&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
որ անձրեւ չգա վրան&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
որ քամին չքշի իրան տանի&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
որ շները չուտեն իրան գիշերով&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
բայց անձրեւը մեկ ա գալիս ա&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
քամին մեզ տանում ա էս ու էն կողմ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ու շները որ կերան սեմ բեքեթին&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
չնայած շան կերպարանք չունեին&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
բայց շուն էին մեկ ա&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;







&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
SAM BECKETT COME HOME&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;traducción: Alice Ter Ghevondian&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
y ahora escribo algunos renglones&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
para entender por qué&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
tan de inmediato y tanto&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
me gustó la ciudad que llaman nueva york&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
me gustó tanto que todo lo que escriba ahora&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
se convierte en una carta a la misma dirección&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
nunca podés&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
encontrar a toda esa gente&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
que podrían haber sido tus amigos&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
pero ellos dejan señas&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
para que comprendas que no estás solo&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
para que estés seguro que tenés amigos&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
aunque quizás ya no los encuentres&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
porque es grande el espacio&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
y poco el tiempo&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
sam beckett&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
vení a casa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
estaba escrito sobre el edificio&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
con luces titilantes&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
y como beckett&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ya no puede venir&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
entonces estas palabras&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
están escritas para mí&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
me paré y miré&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
pero dónde está la casa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
no hay casa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
hay sin hogares&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
y hay nueva york&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
sam beckett&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
vení a casa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
vení a casa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
vení&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
después cuando volví a casa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
a erevan&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
busqué search [2]&amp;nbsp;por internet&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
aquellas palabras&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
y me enteré que&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
aquella frase&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
la escribió un artista chino&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
y sí, por supuesto&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ese edificio estaba en chinatown&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
en la china de nueva york&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
y yo sin saberlo&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
llegué de armenia&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
y me paré frente a ese edificio&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
para leer por casualidad&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
lo que estaba escrito en él&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
sam beckett&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
vení a casa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
vení a casa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
vení&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
el hombre construye la casa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
para abrigarse de la lluvia&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
para que no lo arrastre el viento&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
para que no lo coman los perros por la noche&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
pero igual llueve&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
el viento nos arrastra de un lado para el otro&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
y los perros que se comieron a sam becket&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
aunque no tenían el aspecto de perros&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
eran igualmente perros&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/WsnJ4Jihet8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-13T07:00:05.799-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/05/marine-petrossian-sam-beckett-come-home.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mariné Patrossian: ԳՈՌՈՒՄ ԵՆ ՄԻ ՁԱՅՆՈՎ ՈՆՑ ՈՐ ՔՈՆԸ ԼԻՆԻ</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/RqeqZmLjAqM/marine-patrossian.html</link><category>Armenia</category><category>Contemporary</category><category>Translated into Spanish</category><category>Mariné Petrossian</category><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 04:00:09 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-5592898570016689483</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
մարդիկ տարբեր են լինում&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
հիմար շատ հիմար&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
սիրուն շատ սիրուն&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
անհասկացող լրիվ անհասկացող&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
բայց բոլորն էլ մարդ են&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
քո նման&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ու երբ ոտքդ դնում ես իրանց բաց վերքին&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
գոռում են մի ձայնով ոնց որ քոնը լինի&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
հետո զարմացած աչքերով նայում են վրադ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
ասես թե մեկը խոստացած լիներ իրանց&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
որ չի լինելու ցավ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
որ չի լինելու ցավ&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;







&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
GRITAN CON UNA VOZ COMO SI FUERA LA TUYA&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Traducción: Alice Ter Ghevondian&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
los hombres son diferentes&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
tontos muy tontos&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
agradables muy agradables&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
incomprensibles muy incomprensibles&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
pero todos son seres humanos&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
como vos&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
y cuando ponés tu pie sobre sus heridas abiertas&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
gritan con una voz como si fuera la tuya&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
después te miran con los ojos asombrados&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
como si alguien les hubiera prometido&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
que no habrá dolor&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
que no habrá dolor.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/RqeqZmLjAqM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-14T07:00:09.504-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/05/marine-patrossian.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>ԱՒԵՏԻՔ ԻՍԱՀԱԿԵԱՆ: Կտակ</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/6BaJ4PUi3dU/blog-post_15.html</link><category>Avetik Isahakyan</category><category>Armenia</category><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:14 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-3130304937982802243</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
Սիրուն մանկիկ, ես գնում եմ, դու գալիս ես այս աշխարհ.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
Ճշմարիտն ես փորձով գիտեմ, դու խօսքերս մի մոռանար:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
Կեանքն է ամպի փախչող ստուեր, վայրկեանն է միշտ իրական,&lt;br /&gt;
Բախտի կռանը կամքն է թէեւ, բայց դիպուածն է տիրական:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
Զգացմունքն է գերիշխանը, խելքը` նրա լոկ ծառան.&lt;br /&gt;
Բայց դու խելքդ վրադ պահիր, ինչպէս պողպատ կուռ վահան:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
Մի հաւատար ստուերներին, յենուիր միայն դուն քեզ վրայ,&lt;br /&gt;
Ատելու չափ սիրիր մարդկանց, բայց լաւութիւն միշտ արա:&lt;/div&gt;
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Եւ լայն օրում թէ ընկերներ, թէ բարեկամ ճանաչիր.&lt;br /&gt;
Իսկ նեղ օրում ընկերներին ոչ որոնիր, ոչ կանչիր:&lt;/div&gt;
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Խաղերով լի այս աշխարհում խաղդ եթէ տանուլ տաս,&lt;br /&gt;
Զուարթ եղիր, ու այդպիսով բախտի վրայ կը խնդաս:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Անվախ ու վեհ ղեկդ վարէ անծանօթին դէմ- դէմի.&lt;br /&gt;
Անզղջալի առաջ գնա, ինչ որ լինի, թող լինի:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p2"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Լսի՛ր տղաս, ինձ կը թաղես անյայտ մի տեղ, աննշան,&lt;br /&gt;
Որ չիմանան, մարդիկ չգան` շիրմիս քարը գողանան:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p3"&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArmenianPoetry?a=6BaJ4PUi3dU:xlmOvoWWlfA:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArmenianPoetry?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/6BaJ4PUi3dU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-15T07:00:14.225-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/05/blog-post_15.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Diana Der-Hovanessian: Secret of Life</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/bucBKOy05JU/diana-der-hovanessian-secret-of-life.html</link><category>USA</category><category>Diana Der-Hovanessian</category><category>Contemporary</category><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:00:05 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-266489507945513338</guid><description>Once during the war&lt;br /&gt;on a bus going to Portsmouth&lt;br /&gt; a navy yard worker&lt;br /&gt; told me the secret of life.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The secret of life, he said,&lt;br /&gt; can never be passed down&lt;br /&gt; one generation to the other.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The secret of life, he said,&lt;br /&gt; is hunger. It makes an open hand.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The secret of life is money.&lt;br /&gt; But only the small coins.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The secret of life, he said,&lt;br /&gt; is love. You become what you lose.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The secret of life, he said,&lt;br /&gt; is water. The world will end&lt;br /&gt; in flood.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The secret of life, he said,&lt;br /&gt; is circumstance.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If you catch the right bus&lt;br /&gt; at the right time&lt;br /&gt; you will sit next&lt;br /&gt; to the secret teller&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; who will whisper it&lt;br /&gt; in your ear. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ffrom Selected Poems of Diana Der-Hovanessian. © Sheep Meadow Press, 1994.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/bucBKOy05JU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-16T07:00:05.585-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/05/diana-der-hovanessian-secret-of-life.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>ՆԻԿՈՂՈՍ ՍԱՐԱՖԵԱՆ</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/hlhKfDZJK7Y/blog-post_17.html</link><category>France</category><category>Nigoghos Sarafian</category><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:00:09 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-103517395413131076</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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Նոր երազներ կան, սակայն ես երազել չեմ կրնար,&lt;br /&gt;
ես չեմ կրնար առաջուան պէս երազել, մինչ միշտ հին&lt;br /&gt;
լուսինն է, լուռ երկինքն է նման ներքին աշխարհին,&lt;br /&gt;
անցեալ, գալիք կ՛ընեն դառն, անբաղձալի` հոս իրար:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
Գիշերներն` հոս կը յիշեմ թէ հին աշխարհը` հեռուն`&lt;br /&gt;
կը կործանէր: Կռիւ էր ճամբուս վրայ, սարսափ, սով:&lt;br /&gt;
Հինն էր փտած, նորն էր բիրտ` իր հաւատքով եւ յոյսով:&lt;br /&gt;
Հեղեղն էր մեծ` իր խլած եւ իր տուած զոհերուն:&lt;/div&gt;
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Մեր դարն ոմանք կը տեսնեն մեծ, հանճարեղ, վերջնական,&lt;br /&gt;
եւ չէ, ճամբայ կայ դեռ մեծ եւ անհունն է անսպառ&lt;br /&gt;
հոգին անհուն, մարդկային ըլլալն է դեռ անհնար:&lt;br /&gt;
Եկող յոյսերը վսեմ` միշտ չարիքի պէս կու գան:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
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Եւ անձկութիւն, քայքայում, ցաւ է միշտ` մինչ կը շրջին&lt;br /&gt;
մոլորակներ մետաղէ եւ պողպատներ կը սուրան&lt;br /&gt;
անհունէն վեր, կը թռչին մեքենաներ մոգական,&lt;br /&gt;
անջրպետներ կը կտրեն ուղեւորներն առաջին:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;«Միջերկրական»&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/hlhKfDZJK7Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-17T07:00:09.675-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/05/blog-post_17.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Լեւոն-Զաւէն Սիւրմէլեան: Ծառ Մըն Եմ Ես</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/J6i_k99BEmk/blog-post_19.html</link><category>USA</category><category>Levon Zaven Surmelian</category><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 04:00:05 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-5540818972419740440</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
Ծառ մըն եմ ես&lt;br /&gt;
Արեւուն տակ Հայաստանի`&lt;br /&gt;
Կանաչագեղ ու լայն բացուած&lt;br /&gt;
Ոտներս ամուր`&lt;br /&gt;
Օձերու պէս&lt;br /&gt;
Կը պլլուին մեր սուրբ հողին&lt;br /&gt;
Խաչքարերուն,&lt;br /&gt;
Ու թերեւս բաց հովերուն`&lt;br /&gt;
Ես Յիսուսին պէս կը կանգնիմ&lt;br /&gt;
Լերան վրայ:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Վարը, հեռուն,&lt;br /&gt;
Ահաւասիկ արտերն անհուն ցորեններուն,&lt;br /&gt;
Եւ հնձաններ,&lt;br /&gt;
Որոնք հսկայ թռչուններու պէս կը քալեն&lt;br /&gt;
Արտերուն մէջ ցորեններուն:&lt;br /&gt;
Ու կը տեսնեմ&lt;br /&gt;
Լակոտներ քա՛ջ եւ ոգեւոր,&lt;br /&gt;
Խանձած խոտին վրայ բուրեան,&lt;br /&gt;
Գիւղ կը քշեն`&lt;br /&gt;
Աճած, գիրցած&lt;br /&gt;
Արջառն անթիւ,&lt;br /&gt;
Ակնարկին տակ&lt;br /&gt;
Լուսապսակ&lt;br /&gt;
Լուսաւորչին:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ծառ մըն եմ ես&lt;br /&gt;
Արեւուն տակ Հայաստանի`&lt;br /&gt;
Կանաչագեղ ու լայն բացուած&lt;br /&gt;
Ու թերեւս բաց հովերուն`&lt;br /&gt;
Ես Յիսուսին պէս կը կանգնիմ&lt;br /&gt;
Լերան վրայ:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/J6i_k99BEmk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-19T07:00:05.260-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/05/blog-post_19.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Ա. ԻՍԱՀԱԿԵԱՆ: Տարիներ Յետոյ Քեզ Տեսայ Նորից</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/RC7eH3Eacdc/blog-post_20.html</link><category>Avetik Isahakyan</category><category>Armenia</category><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:04 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-6619981114501349575</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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Տարիներ յետոյ քեզ տեսայ նորից,&lt;br /&gt;
Սիրտս արտասուեց, բայց ժպտացի ես,&lt;br /&gt;
Նոյն աղջիկն էիր` չքնաղ բոլորից,&lt;br /&gt;
Հոգուս մտերիմ, հարազատ այնպէ՛ս:&lt;br /&gt;
Աչքերդ մեղմով հանգչեցին վրաս,&lt;br /&gt;
Ես հպարտ ու վես անցայ քո մօտով.&lt;br /&gt;
Շուրջս ծածանուեց լուսեղէն երազ.&lt;br /&gt;
Եւ ետ նայեցի անզուսպ կարօտով:&lt;br /&gt;
Սուտ է, նազելիս, չի զատել երբեք,&lt;br /&gt;
Երբեք չի զատել մեզ կեանքը դաժան.&lt;br /&gt;
Քո՛յր իմ, ամոքիր սիրտս վշտաբեկ,&lt;br /&gt;
Տե՛ս քոնն եմ ես միշտ, քո՛ն եմ յաւիտեան:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~4/RC7eH3Eacdc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2013-05-20T07:00:04.551-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/2013/05/blog-post_20.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>ԱՐԱՄԱՅԻՍ ՍԱՀԱԿԵԱՆ: Կեանքն Էլ Նման Է Այս Աւտոբուսին</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArmenianPoetry/~3/B_AzeSDAQOc/blog-post_21.html</link><category>Armenia</category><category>Aramayis Sahakyan</category><author>ArmenianPoetryProject@gmail.com (Lola Koundakjian)</author><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28214564.post-7381936681404761804</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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Կեանքն էլ նման է, այս աւտոբուսին,&lt;br /&gt;
Ոմանք իջնում են, ոմանք բարձրանում,&lt;br /&gt;
Ոմանք նստած են անհոգ ու հանգիստ,&lt;br /&gt;
Ոմանք կանգնելու տեղ են որոնում:&lt;br /&gt;
Ոմանք դռներից կախուել են հազիւ,&lt;br /&gt;
Ոմանք գնում են միայն մէկ կանգառ,&lt;br /&gt;
Կեանքն էլ նման է այս աւտոբուսին:&lt;br /&gt;
Պէտք է վճարես գնալուդ համար:&lt;br /&gt;
Հողագնդի պէս օրօրւում կամաց,&lt;br /&gt;
Գնում է գալիս` նոր մարդկանցով լի,&lt;br /&gt;
Ու եթէ վթար պատահի յանկարծ,&lt;br /&gt;
Կանգնած ու նստած` էլ չի հարցնի…&lt;/div&gt;
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Կեանքն էլ նման է այս աւտոբուսին,&lt;br /&gt;
Եկէք մտածենք ապրելու մասին:&lt;/div&gt;
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