In The Shell Island

Armenian News Network / Groong
August 20, 2005

⚠ This is an archival article originally published on August 20, 2005. Information may be outdated.

I was an observant guest In Shell Island Today. The bay was full of Countless shells. The waves every second Were tossing out in haste New-new piles of Scallops Empty shells; Some-colorful, some-pale, In various measures And shapes, New-new piles of Scallops Bare shells… The children were playing Carelessly with them, Peopl were collecting Fancy shells, And the oceans itself Tireless and endless Was conducting the shells’ crashes on bays…

Armenouhi Minassian

Author bio at time of publication

Armenuhi Minassian was born in the village of Mughni in Ashtarak District of Armenia. She's a graduate from the Yerevan State University with a Masters degree in Armenian Language and Literature and in Teaching. For several years she worked as a teacher in #155 Secondary school of Yerevan. Armenouhi started to write poetry when she was 10. Her first poem was broadcast by Armenian radio when she was in the third grade. She received her first award for reading her poetry in the Scholastic Olympics competition in 1966. Her first article was published in the Ashtarak district Newspaper in 1972.