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Baliozian Ara - Poems / Poems

Denis Donikian
"On my skin dry and suns.
How to write. "
glue, various objects, casting, 94x12x12 cm, 2001
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The Human Condition


We walk like apes
Eat like cannibals
talk like parrots
Fight dragons like
And call Ourselves
Civilized human beings.

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The human condition


As we walk the monkeys
As we eat cannibals
Since we're talking parrots
As dragons we fight
And we dare say
civilized human beings.


Haiku


Little toadstools
On the lawn:
Reminders of Hiroshima.

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Haiku


Small toadstools
On the lawn:
Recalls Hiroshima.


Dreams / Nightmares


When Dreams Come True
/ They turn
Into Nightmare.

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Dreams / Nightmares


Where dreams
To realize / They turn
In nightmares.


Ara Baliozian

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

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Source: http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/search/label/Ara% 20Baliozian
Translations: © George Festa - 02.2011