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101 Poems (part 02)
DELAYED LIFE
It’s at least nonsense –
to give the definition of flower
without looking at your eyes: only they do know
how the sun has taken part in the creation of divine flower,
they know about the earth, the cool, the warmth of that hand
which would pick the flower up one day …
From this very moment I delay my life
for living in another time, at another century. And as to the
sun, it hasn’t got any set: the sunset has been invented by
human, with an aim to justify the death.
Whereas, let’s ask Charents, if the death has ever had justification.
We haven’t met each other, or it’s been since our births. And
have you ever thought that maybe
the sky and the wing,
the horizon and the star,
the dream and the way,
the storm and the snowdrop have met instead of us.
I just walk arm in arm with oblivion and void myself.
There was an Only oak in our forest. When I was a child,
I hided myself in its hollow at lightning time. Whereas I
didn’t know that the oak takes the lightning as a conductor.
Maybe that day I took the gravitation and loneliness of the oak.
But I’ve never been sorry. They say loneliness is boldness.
This is all: the flower got more beautiful (or it seemed to me)
while I was speaking about you,
the sun became gold – twinkling on the hills(or it seemed to me)
while I was mistaking it to your hot lips (but this is an exact fact)…
Alas! Now I have to whisper “Farewell” instead of “Goodbye”,
because as they say,
the more you love, the sooner you loose.
DEPARTING MOUNTAINS
I like to drink water from the spring
where before me
the bird flying from the rosehip plant
has soaked its gilded beak.
The Blue is a remembrance of heart. And too much love
is not love. The spring flows into the song of itself.
The purl of the spring is its only nightwear
in the semi-darkness of the gorge.
The meaning of waters is childhood where I do exist
like a kiss on your eyes. But only your eyes could see it
and none else.
I’m the armenian king Vachagan arrested in the hell of Peroge*
delivering flowery scripts for centuries.
Who has alienated all from the all?
The world is the misprint of the world. The human being is
such an empty thing…And don’t measure the direction of
the brook by ruler.
Sometimes I want to be communicated: I’m sorry,
Shakespeare, Whitman and Charents,** the poetry doesn’t exist.
I read not only by eyes but sometimes by hands
leaving the affection of my fingers on the parchment.
Vale and gorge, departing mountains - are legible for
the motion of waters,
and I’m babbling inside, deeper but pure
for to be heard by everyone.
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*Peroge – the place where armenian king Vachagan(Also known as
Vachagan the Pious for his devotion) had been arrested
**Charents – armenian poet of 20th century.(t.n.)
DESPERATION
A bang of a door at midnight
then - departing steps
And an inaccurate light of the stars.
It was me. Where was I going?
I couldn’t guess…
I still haven’t reached
for to know that place.
DIARY
The moment of our acquaintance was so immediate
and your silence was so natural and like-minded,
that I forcedly couldn’t help laughing ( I have laughed
like this during childhood times, jumping in the river
stark naked and feeling the tickling of waters)…
Then…so many skies have flown under the wings of crane.
Matis has cut his tongue and began to paint steeds, girls and
flowers by own blood. I keep on my respectfulness about
the words: while writing any word, it seems that “I take part
in the invention of armenian alphabet” with Mashtots*,
joining to the lonely poets of past’s and future’s confession.
Whereas the bird down in the flood has nothing common with
all these: sitting on a stump, it’s just thinking that someone has
mistaken the flood to “From Sea to Sea Armenia”, especially as
Masis is not at his place anymore.
Khorenatsy** still pulls his beard out…
I don’t worry the light and I sing. And I notice how my voice
reaches to the sky and upper.( I wonder what was conqueror
Napoleon’s wish that at last Goethe didn’t write).
The areas of my country do start from myself and (from Noah
up to me) I like the simplest words: Hello, how are you…
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*Mashtots – the inventor of armenian alphabet.
**Khorenatsy - Movses Khorenatsy ,the father of the Armenian historiography,
reflected the Armenian history of the 5 century
DILEMMA
The neigh of the steed is waving over unknown far
and the steed selflessly trots after echo.
The day is bad tempered. The sky is like a girl –
married without love – indifferent, displeased.
The poplar, that was dancing on the palm of the
golden leaves, now is in grieve – leafless, deceived.
The light is destroying the exhibits done on the nightly lakes.
The widow is faced with the dilemma: to accept this man
knocking on her door, or no?
The obscures do wait until mountain will be far.
EMERSON WAS BOILING EGGS
ON VOLCANOES
The light gets thick on the branches of darkness
and the blossomed apple-trees lead you to the
mysterious east.
The crane himself chooses the night and sky of passage.
Black girl,
you are a white snow, and the heavenly manna brought from
the dales of Jerusalem is twice sweet on your body. The gods
do hear you even at that times, when you are silent.
I don’t know who drinks water from your palm…I’m just an
earth sharing the affection of flowers while hugging your feet,
while accepting the hidden drops of your fingers.
Wounded grasses,
Blood-tasty wind.