ArmenianPoetryProject
Armenian Poetry, for poetry and Armenian language lovers.armenian-poetry.blogspot.comThis project is curated and produced by Lola Koundakjian in New York. To contact APP, send an email to: ArmenianPoetryProject[at]gmail[dot]com.
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Aida Zilelian: Elegy for What I Cannot Write (opens the original)
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I never wrote a poem about war. As a child every storm shook the walls of my home. I never wrote a poem about war. In classrooms I read the scene of Juliek playing his violin in the Giewitz snowfall. I never wrote a poem about war. At six, I was given thick-bound books filled with pages of my decapitated poets. I never wrote a poem about war. All my dears are toiling, fervent as they cry out the death tolls of children. I never wrote a poem about war. I haven’t the right. How can I ever know tho
Tina Demirdjian: ORANGES FROM THE BOSPHORUS (opens the original)
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She fed me oranges and my worries went away on the road from the Bosphorus I spit the seeds out the window of the small white car speeding down the mountain at fifteen I planted my memory there on the dirt road and found the beginning of where my skin was born on the hands of all my grandmothers waving to me on that dirt road; shouting their stories in the wind so I can hear their echo even in the speeding car, and carry voices in my pocket eating oranges laughing and telling jokes in another la
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