Sylva's Serenade Dative Eyes

By Sylva Portoian-Shuhaiber

Singing is part of our daily life. These collections of poems are for world singers, songwriters and musicians who contributed in our life to make us happy by singing their songs, and for those who enchanted our straggling life and continue to enchant.

Charles Aznavour: You Sang ‘She’ I will sing ‘He’
He is the man I can’t forget, the genes that I carry without regret.
He never left treasures that he had worked for. Gone with the wind . . .
He left His smile, endlessly gracing my fiery hart.
He was a saint ‘Unnamed’.
When I was young I never knew
His Hearted-Mind so wonderful, so kind.
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Dr. Sylva Portoian is the winner of the Carnegie Price for Poetry, 2009

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 5, 2010
• ISBN: 9781450018913

Sylva Portoian-Shuhaiber

Dr. Sylva Portoian is a Pediatrician of Armenian ancestry, trained in England. Started rhyming from age seven, discontinued writing {poeming} on entering medical school. During year 2006 had time to rhyme poetry once again. She has written more than 400 poems in one year. [Lance my Hart at a Glance ; iUniverse Press: July2007] ; Delete Depression type Inspiration; Lilit lilting via Internet ;A Soul Shined from Genocide; My Son take my Hart& Transplant ; Millennium; Life Plunge to Surge; Smiles create Lives . . . etc. She has written medical articles in well-known journals {1984-1987}: Lancet, Archives of Diseases in Childhood, Tropical Pediatrics, Annals of Genetics [Paris], Inherited Metabolic Diseases and the Journal of Cardio-Vascular Surgery. Also many articles on: Health Education in the local newspapers about: Asthma; Vaccination; Diarrhea; Cerebral Palsy and how to care for handicap children. Sylva Portoian is the Carnegie Spring 2009 Poetry Contest Winner. In addition, she presented medical papers in international conferences.

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Sylva’s

Serenade dative

Eyes

But how about Looking through Sylva’s eyes:

Eyes that can sing for every soul

Sylva Portoian-Shuhaiber, MD FRCP

Copyright © 2010 by Sylva Portoian-Shuhaiber, MD FRCP.

(Sylva-MD-Poetry)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009914097

ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4500-1890-6

Ebook 978-1-4500-1891-3

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Sylva Portoian’s published poetry collections(July 2007-January 2010):

Lance My Hart at a Glance (July 2007)

Delete Depression—Type Inspiration (November 2007)

A Poetic Soul Shined of Genocides (August 2008)

Angel Lilit Lilting via Internet (October 2008)

Sons: Take My Heart and Transplant (February 2009)

Millennium Brains’ Lacrimates (March 2009)

Politics Play, People Pay, Poets Proms Pledging Pray (May 2009)

E-mails: Beneath Blossoming Trees (June 2009)

Songs of Searing Desert Storms (December 2009)

Sylva’s Serenade dative Eyes (January 2010)

My Son—My Love: Chants Ann, Obama’s Mother

Sylva Portoian is the Carnegie Spring 2009 Poetry Contest Winner

of Policy Innovations (Carnegie Council of Ethics and International Affairs) for her poem Inauguration Day

Edited by Luigi Marchini

Chairman of Save As Writers, United Kingdom

Front cover is the author’s portrait painted by her friend Nancy Dammen Jones Sylva: Sears and Serenades Acrylic on Canvas, 30X40 inch, September 2009

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Dedicated

To all heartfelt Singers

Whoever they are

Wherever they live

In any tongue

They sing.

That arises from

Cardiac-Core

Dedicated

To

Every spirit

Who vocalizes

Harty stanzas

For they

Will gain more love

Breathe healthier

Spread loving

Incenses to

Every corner

Of the Earth.

Adding Musicians

Who ignite with

Each soul.

By

Sylva-MD-Poetry

The Passions of Shakespeare

I say, and all literates of the world say the same,

"Poetry must express strong emotions

Otherwise it is a description and not poetry."

For that reason some ethnicities lack it

While others strongly possess it.

This is the reason the world

Adores Shakespeare,

He represents strong

Irreplaceable,

Everlasting

Passion.

Emotions exist in every human,

Some anemic some polycythemic

Who possess crimson-red cells;

They will pulsate

Entering cohorts

Creating celebrating

Genuine

Poetic Faiths.

Sylva Portoian,MD

Charles*: You Sang ‘She’ I will sing ‘He’

He, he is the man

I can’t forget

The genes that I carry

Without regret.

He never left treasures,

What he worked for.

Gone with the wind—

No trace left.

But He left

His smile,

Endlessly gracing

My fiery hart.

He was a saint

‘Unnamed’

I never felt

Like his daughter.

Now I am rich

With a poetic hart

For him I search

But cannot find.

I want to tell

How much

I loved him.

When I was young

I never knew

His Harted-Mind

So wonderful,

So kind.

May 22, 2009 (Charles Aznavour’s Birthday)

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*Charles Aznavour, born Shahnour Varenagh Aznavourian (May 22, 1924, Paris) is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France’s most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world. He is known for his characteristic short figure and unique tenor voice; clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravely and profound low notes. He has appeared in more than 60 movies, composed about 1,000 songs (including at least 150 in English, 100 in Italian, 70 in Spanish, and 50 in German), and sold well over 100 million records.

He has written a song about the Armenian Genocide, titled Ils sont tombes (in English "They fell").

He has sung for presidents, popes, and royalty, as well as at humanitarian events, and is the founder of the charitable organization Aznavour for Armenia along with his long-time friend and impresario Levon Sayan.

He has written musicals and about a thousand songs, and made more than one hundred records. Aznavour speaks and sings in many languages (French, English, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Armenian, Portuguese, Neapolitan), which has helped him perform at Carnegie