The Size of a Heart by Maro Markaryan
Poet In Residence
Friday, April 22, 2005
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(Bob Holman (bobholman.com))
New York, NY –
Sunday marks the 90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Hundreds are expected to gather in Times Square to commemorate the massacre and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during the First World War. Today, poet Bob Hollman has a poem to mark the anniversary.
HOLMAN: Friends, New Yorkers, citizens! Give me your ears! This is Bob Holman on WNYC Radio. Here's a poem by the extraordinary woman, Armenian poet, Maro Markaryam called the Size of a Heart.
The Size of a Heart by Maro Markaryan
You are
A palm, a hand
The size of a heart,
You are
Broad as a heart
And as deep,
My homeland.
You are
Precious gems of good,
Of fragrance, of fertility;
You are
My distillation of love,
My miraculous land,
You are
The size of a heart,
A palm, a hand.
Reaching out to touch us-- Maro Markaryan, the Armenian poet. Born in 1915 and still alive, as are we all. Poetry on the radio. Bob Holman, WNYC.
LInks:
Music - Eve Beglarian from the cd "Overstepping" track 10 song is called "Falling and Throwing"
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