• hopilavayi: an erotic dictionary

memories of my ghost sista

~ the dead are never satisfied

memories of my ghost sista

Tag Archives: Armenia

what are you going to do on yegherrni zoheri hishataki or?

22 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Armenia

≈ Comments Off on what are you going to do on yegherrni zoheri hishataki or?

Tags

April 24, Armenia, Genocide Remembrance Day, Սարդարապատի ճակատամարտ, Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր, Sardarabad, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, Yegherrni Zoheri Hishataki Or

a2

“On May 23, 1918 the Armenian troops defeated superior Turkish forces advancing toward Yerevan. This victory on the threshold of Echmiadzin saved the heart of Armenia from conquest.” — Jacques Kayaloff (1973)

April 24 is Genocide Remembrance Day (Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր) and while Turkey will once again choose to look the other way I figured I’d take the advice my mother always gave when it came to dealing with dimwitted bullies — “small-minded people hate to look foolish and stupid in front of their betters” — and so I will retell the story in which Enver Pasha’s Young Turks were defeated by the plucky Armenian Army of 1918.

This is, of course, the Battle of Sardarabad (Սարդարապատի ճակատամարտ) and it is amazing.

prayer to astghik

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Armenia, Poetry, Translation

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

Armenia, Astghik, love goddess, poem, prayer, translation

Astghik

Աստվածուհին սիրո եւ վերջին սերը.
Աստղիկ, ես մենակ եմ.
Ուղարկիր ինձ իմ ցանկություն.
Բեր ինձ ցանկամոլություն.
Սապփո, որ Աֆրոդիտեի դուստրը.
Ես ուզում եմ ձեզ հիմա, իմ մուգ մայրը.

.
Goddess of love and last love.
Astghik, I‘m alone.
Send me my wish.
Bring me my desire.
Sappho was Aphrodite’s daughter.
I need you now, my dark mother.

.
note:

Astghik, besides being a popular Armenian girl’s name, is one of the old gods that lived in the Caucasus mountains before Armenia became the first Christian nation in the world. She was, and is, a love goddess, the protector of young girls and the guardian of fresh water. The Greek poet Sappho wrote a hymn to Aphrodite. This is my hymn for Astghik.

And once again I must apologize for my poor skills in Armenian. I am slowly learning the grammar, but it is a slow process when you are teaching yourself. One day I hope to be able to write the poems I dream about writing in Armenian, but until then I will keep on trying.

Image

inauguration day in armenia

09 Tuesday Apr 2013

Tags

Armenia, elder, flag, inauguration day

inauguration day

[from OneArmenia]

Elder #barevolution supporter at Freedom Square on inauguration day #armenia #armenianactivism #raffihovannisian #serzhsarksyan #opera #elections #protest #opposition

Posted by babylon crashing | Filed under Armenia, photograph

≈ Comments Off on inauguration day in armenia

Image

ruined building i call memory

07 Sunday Apr 2013

Tags

Armenia, art, ghost city of my soul, Gyumri

a ruined building in Gyumri, Armenia

I call this home.

Posted by babylon crashing | Filed under Armenia, Illustration and art

≈ Comments Off on ruined building i call memory

view from gyumri of mount aragats

07 Sunday Apr 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Armenia, Illustration and art

≈ Comments Off on view from gyumri of mount aragats

Tags

Aragats, Armenia, art, Peace Corps, psycho vac, suicide

view from Gyumri of Mount Aragats

Everyone talks about Mt. Ararat as a glorious mountain because it’s out of touch, but Aragats is the mountain I love. It was where I went to wander one dark, dark December night until the battle-fey found me. I was 26 and wanted to fade away in the blizzard that shut the mountains down and I decided to walk to Yerevan from Gyumri because I couldn’t live with the weight of having the children I tried to take care of in the orphanage die.

Image

in love with color: mariam aslamazyan

02 Tuesday Apr 2013

Tags

Armenia, artist, Gyumri, historic heroine, Mariam Aslamazyan, painter

Mariam Aslamazyan1

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Mariam Aslamazyan4

Mariam Aslamazyan6

Mariam Aslamazyan7

Mariam Aslamazyan8

Mariam Aslamazyan9

Mariam Aslamazyan5

Mariam Aslamazyan10

I am working on an article about the Armenian painter Mariam Aslamazyan, from Gyumri. I use to live near her studio on Abovian street. She is amazingly talented, working in oils and ceramics. I’ll post the entire article when I’m done, though it is a bit slow since there is hardly anything written about her in English and it takes forever to get the Russian magazine articles translated. Cheers!

Posted by babylon crashing | Filed under Armenia, Illustration and art

≈ Comments Off on in love with color: mariam aslamazyan

magic bus

02 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Armenia, Illustration and art

≈ Comments Off on magic bus

Tags

Armenia, bus, packed like sardines, photo

onearmenia1

Ah, this photo brings back so many memories of having to stand the entire 4-5 hours it would take to get from Yerevan to Gyumri. It wasn’t that I didn’t arrive early for a seat but that there would always be some 89 year-old tatik who was obviously going to be forced to stand the entire ride. At least back in the 1990s there was a lot of lip-service paid to how important the elderly was but I never saw in the two years I was there anyone ever doing so much as give up their seat for their own grandmother. My mama-jan didn’t raise no rude boy so I spent a lot of time standing. Such is life.

from OneArmenia.

Image

got barf?

01 Monday Apr 2013

Tags

Armenia, Barf, detergent powder

barf

Got Barf? because what household isn’t complete without a little Barf on their shelves? This is an actual detergent powder sold in Armenia … because who needs to have a word translated before using it as a product’s name?

Posted by babylon crashing | Filed under Armenia, Illustration and art

≈ Comments Off on got barf?

Image

armenian drinking fountains

01 Monday Apr 2013

Tags

Armenia, art, drinking fountain

Armenian drinking fountain

Gyumri water fountain2

Posted by babylon crashing | Filed under Armenia, Illustration and art

≈ Comments Off on armenian drinking fountains

Image

fernando botero’s statue CAT, located near the cascade steps, yerevan

01 Monday Apr 2013

Tags

Armenia, Cascade Steps, CAT statue, Fernando Botero, Yerevan

Fernando Botero’s statue Cat, located near the Cascade Steps, Yerevan

Posted by babylon crashing | Filed under Armenia, Illustration and art

≈ Comments Off on fernando botero’s statue CAT, located near the cascade steps, yerevan

← Older posts
Newer posts →

age difference anal sex Armenia Armenian Genocide Armenian translation ars poetica art artist unknown blow job Chinese translation conversations with imaginary sisters cum cunnilingus drama erotic erotica erotic poem erotic poetry Federico Garcia Lorca fellatio finger fucking free verse ghost ghost girl ghost lover gif Gyumri haiku homoerotic homoerotica Humor i'm spilling more thank ink y'all incest Lilith Love shall make us a threesome masturbation more than just spilled ink more than spilled ink mythology ocean mythology Onna bugeisha orgasm Peace Corps photo poem Poetry Portuguese Portuguese translation prose quote unquote reblog retelling Rumi Sappho sea folklore Shakespeare sheismadeinpoland sonnet sorrow Spanish Spanish translation spilled ink story Taoist Pirate rituals Tarot Tarot of Syssk thank you threesome Titus Andronicus translation video Walt Whitman war woman warrior xenomorph

electric mayhem [links]

  • discos bizarros argentinos
  • aimee mann
  • poesia erótica (português)
  • sandra bernhard
  • Poetic K [myspace]
  • armenian erotica and news
  • cyndi lauper

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Blog Stats

  • 388,048 hits

Categories

ars poetica: the blogs a-b

  • margaret bashaar
  • all things said and done
  • tiel aisha ansari
  • megan burns
  • lynn behrendt
  • Alcoholic Poet
  • aliki barnstone
  • black satin
  • armenian poetry project
  • brilliant books
  • sandra beasley
  • the art blog
  • alzheimer's poetry project
  • afghan women's writing project
  • emma bolden
  • mary biddinger
  • stacy blint
  • sommer browning
  • afterglow
  • clair becker
  • american witch
  • cecilia ann
  • wendy babiak
  • kristy bowen

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 44 other subscribers

Archives

ars poetica: the blogs c-d

  • maria damon
  • natalia cecire
  • jennifer k. dick
  • linda lee crosfield
  • roberto cavallera
  • michelle detorie
  • jackie clark
  • lyle daggett
  • cleveland poetics
  • cheryl clark
  • abigail child
  • julie carter
  • juliet cook
  • CRB
  • lorna dee cervantes
  • flint area writers

ars poetica: the blogs e-h

  • hayaxk (ՀԱՅԱՑՔ)
  • maureen hurley
  • carrie etter
  • joy garnett
  • bernardine evaristo
  • Free Minds Book Club
  • amanda hocking
  • ghosts of zimbabwe
  • human writes
  • sarah wetzel fishman
  • carol guess
  • Gabriela M.
  • julie r. enszer
  • elizabeth glixman
  • joy harjo
  • herstoria
  • jeannine hall gailey
  • maggie may ethridge
  • jane holland
  • elisa gabbert
  • liz henry
  • jessica goodfellow
  • pamela hart

ars poetica: the blogs i-l

  • donna khun
  • amy king
  • a big jewish blog
  • megan kaminski
  • Kim Whysall-Hammond
  • sandy longhorn
  • maggie jochild
  • diane lockward
  • lesbian poetry archieves
  • sheryl luna
  • joy leftow
  • emily lloyd
  • charmi keranen
  • miriam levine
  • kennifer kilgore-caradec
  • Jaya Avendel
  • irene latham
  • gene justice
  • laila lalami
  • language hat
  • lesley jenike
  • IEPI
  • dick jones
  • las vegas poets organization
  • meg johnson
  • renee liang

ars poetica: the blogs m-o

  • the malaysian poetic chronicles
  • iamnasra oman
  • adrienne j. odasso
  • sharanya manivannan
  • new issues poetry & prose
  • nzepc
  • maud newton
  • january o'neil
  • Nanny Charlotte
  • My Poetic Side
  • michigan writers resources
  • mlive: michigan poetry news
  • majena mafe
  • wanda o'connor
  • michigan writers network
  • sophie mayer
  • caryn mirriam-goldberg
  • marion mc cready
  • michelle mc grane
  • ottawa poetry newsletter
  • motown writers
  • heather o'neill

ars poetica: the blogs p-r

  • susan rich
  • joanna preston
  • ariana reines
  • kristin prevallet
  • maria padhila
  • split this rock
  • Queen Majeeda
  • nicole peyrafitte
  • nikki reimer
  • sophie robinson
  • rachel phillips
  • helen rickerby

ars poetica: the blogs s-z

  • tuesday poems
  • southern michigan poetry
  • shin yu pai
  • sexy poets society
  • womens quarterly conversation
  • Trista's Poetry
  • ron silliman
  • vassilis zambaras
  • scottish poetry library
  • switchback books
  • tim yu
  • Stray Lower

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • memories of my ghost sista
    • Join 44 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • memories of my ghost sista
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...