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I guess you could say I'm a citizen of the world. I've traveled....and I've lived parts of my life in Iran, Lebanon, the US, and Cyprus. I am proud of my Armenian heritage. I was born in Tehran, Iran and soon after that, my family went to the States for my dad to work on his MA degree and many years later, to work on his Ed.D. I have a lot of the Middle East and the West in me, and at times....I feel confused about my identity. I do, however, cling to my Armenian roots and am outspoken about recognition by the world of the Armenian Genocide that took place over 100 years ago.

Since my parents had no common language, the language spoken in our home was English. Yes, I am most fluent in English, and I think, dream, and converse in that language, though I do speak 5 other languages to varying degrees! :)

I am melancholy/sanguine by nature and feel everything very keenly. My highs are SUPER HIGH...and my lows...SUPER LOW! I guess you could say...I'm INTENSE. I'm passionate about poetry to the point of obsession.

The events that have colored my life are the death of my mother due to MS and the war in Lebanon. As a child, it was hard for me to come to grips with the fact that my mother was ill, and to see her go from being a vibrant, well-loved teacher to a wheelchair bound, isolated woman was a very harrowing experience. I do believe, though, that there is a resurrection day and that, by His grace, I will see my Mama fully restored...free of wheelchair, able to sing, laugh, and smile again. The war in Lebanon...bombs landing all around, nights spent in bomb shelters.. has also scarred me to some degree.

What I'm most proud of? That would be my daughter...Shereen Natalie Ghali. She is the light of my life. Her name in Farsi means SWEET! :)

Currently, I teach English at Middle East University in Beirut, Lebanon. Poetry Soup has been a haven for me....most of the time! ;) I've developed amazing friendships here that are very genuine and real. My dream is to one day have my name on a volume of poetry! One can always dream....Thank you for making the effort to get acquainted. God bless!

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A Short Message from FLO!!!!

Blog Posted:1/8/2016 10:04:00 AM

Dear Soupers....

I just got this message form Flo a little over an hour ago.

"Hey, Lady. Just to let you know I'm Okay. Cannot move much and hurting so getting back off."

She is a brave woman...a smiley face!!! I've been praying so for her. Thank GOD! The operation is over...now on to recovery!

A big word of thanks to each and every one of you who has taken the time to keep Flo in your thoughts and prayers!!! Please please continue to do so. Continue to encourage. I'm sure she will be able to read the messages in time.

I'm so so so happy! I've been sick with worry.

May she God continue to be with her as she goes through the recovery process.

Hugs, eveyone!

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Anne-Lise
Andresen

Date: 6/9/2017 2:43:00 PM

- Beautiful - Best wishes and Love - hugs

Charmaine
Chircop

Date: 1/9/2016 1:42:00 AM

I am so so happy for Flo dear Eileen , thanks for keeping us updated dear. Hugs

Eileen Manassian
Date: 1/9/2016 3:53:00 AM

:) I am too, my dear. I am too. Thanks for sending your love to her by posting. I'm sure at some point in time...she will read and be encouraged. Hugs to the little one in the pic. Love you

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 1/8/2016 6:01:00 PM

Glad she is now in recovery. Will send her a little note, Eileen!

Eileen Manassian
Date: 1/9/2016 3:52:00 AM

I am very extremely happy as well. It won't be an easy process, but Flo has a wonderful family to support and uplift her. Thanks for the message, dear.

Jan
Allison

Date: 1/8/2016 1:52:00 PM

Thanks for keeping us updated - I hope and pray Flo will be back with us as soon as she is able to:-) hugs Jan xx

Eileen Manassian
Date: 1/8/2016 4:22:00 PM

Thanks, sweetie. I will update as I hear news. She has a long road ahead of her...Still, it's one milestone out of the way. Hope all is well with you. Hugs

Constance
La France

Date: 1/8/2016 11:14:00 AM

Eileen thanks for letting us know she is doing well with this beautiful blog, let her know I am praying for her quick recovery ~

Eileen Manassian
Date: 1/8/2016 4:23:00 PM

Thanks, dear. I haven't heard back from her since that message, but I will let her know when I am able that her Souper friends are supporting her in prayer. Blessings.

Kabuteng P.Ink
K.

Date: 1/8/2016 10:20:00 AM

She is very brave indeed!!! It made me smile to see how she was able to send you the message personally :D! She's continuously in my prayers as well & keeping her in my thoughts ...I just know she'll be doing great in her road to recovery! Thanks so much for sharing, Eileen :) <3!

Eileen Manassian
Date: 1/8/2016 10:32:00 AM

Thanks, sweetie. I had actually given her my email address for her daughters to use to update me. I was so shocked when I got those few lines from her. She knows I'll pass on the info, so she wants everyone to know...she's stable. Hugs to you, dear one. I'm so glad. We need to keep praying and uplifting her. Hugs

Cyndi
Macmillan

Date: 1/8/2016 10:12:00 AM

Great news! She is such a wonderful person. Thanks, Eileen, for keeping Soupers in the know. This IS very real... as you are. (one day, not now, I'll soup mail you to fully explain my concerns, in that regard. This is neither the time or place. ;) ) I'm sure the road to recovery will be long and hard. I will pray for a quicker healing, helping hands and good medication. In fact, :), I just did. Hugs, Cyndi

Eileen Manassian
Date: 1/8/2016 10:30:00 AM

Thanks, dear. Feel free to write to me at any time. Thanks ever so much for keeping Flo in your thoughts and prayers. She isn't a whiner...so, if she says she's in pain...it's the real thing. However, knowing the operation is now and thing of the past....she can focus on getting better. :) Hugs

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1/15/2023	I Miss You	Rhyme	longing,lost love,
12/4/2022	I Want You	Free verse	desire,longing,passion,
9/25/2022	The Passing	Dramatic Monologue	feelings,passion,
1/24/2022	The Introverted Mood of Night	Rhyme	heartbroken,lost love,
10/19/2021	Where Will He Sleep Tonight	Rhyme	child,pain,poverty,
6/4/2021	It Was Easy	Free verse	mother daughter,relations
3/27/2021	Forgotten	Dramatic Monologue	feelings,friendship,
6/16/2020	Free Lebanon Today	Acrostic	conflict,courage,
6/5/2020	Never Silent	Free verse	discrimination,judgement,
5/14/2020	To the Fallen of Covid 19	Iambic Pentameter	tribute,
5/7/2020	Fireflies Or Fairies	Rhyme	imagination,longing,love,
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3/31/2020	The Worst of Deaths	Sonnet	dark,death,loss,love hurt
3/27/2020	Through Alleys of My Mind	Sonnet	longing,lost love,
3/19/2020	Where Poppies Grow	Iambic Pentameter	devotion,longing,
3/6/2020	The Fickle Fate of Friendship	Rhyme	appreciation,forgiveness,
3/6/2020	Heaven's Gift	Rhyme	daughter,love,
2/3/2020	Poetry Soup Ponderings	Rhyme	community,encouraging,
10/25/2019	Some Things Never Change	Rhyme	daughter,love,
9/26/2019	A Rush of Emotions	Rhyme	inspirational love,relati
9/16/2019	Let Them Sing Their Love Songs	Rhyme	love,song,
7/11/2019	Life	Personification	life,
6/7/2019	In Response To Dylan Thomas	Villanelle	life,perspective,tribute,
4/17/2019	This Easter	Rhyme	inspirational,religious,
12/13/2018	This Thing Called Love	Iambic Pentameter	love,
11/20/2018	The Day You Gently Let Me Go	Rhyme	lost love,
10/10/2018	Dancing Desire	Free verse	desire,
9/23/2018	Blame It On the Cat	Free verse	metaphor,missing you,
8/28/2018	Undressed- a Collaboration	Rhyme	longing,passion,
8/2/2018	Be Silent	Dramatic Monologue	passion,poetry,
7/16/2018	You Keep Me Grounded	Narrative	friendship,
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6/15/2018	You'Re My Poem of the Day	Dramatic Monologue	poems,poetry,poets,
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PoemTitle	Form	Categories
The Wedding Ring	Quatrain	angst,marriage,night,
Feelings	Epigram	imagination,introspection
The Perfect Womens Club	Free verse	women,change,
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In Your Poems	Free verse	dedication,words,
If I Were Asked	Epigram	girlfriend,love,wife,
Super Soupers	Prose	fantasy,writing,girl,me,p
Snowflakes	Epigram	angel,grief,love,
The Dream I Live	Epigram	devotion,dream,love,
Cliches Debunked	Quatrain	happiness,humorous,old,bi
Locked In a Jar	Terzanelle	love,heart,dark,dark,hear
Powerless	Villanelle	love,me,dream,dream,magic
Love Returned	Senryu	love,
Space	Rhyme	dream,space,
Forever Demands	Nonet	love,universe,
A Placid Lake	Epigram	introspection,philosophy,
Ghost Guitar	Couplet	love,
What Is This Space	Quatrain	blue,inspirational,
The Real You	Senryu	devotion,
Paint Your Dreams On a Canvas	Free verse	art,beautiful,inspiration
Warrior Princess	Terzanelle	fantasy,
A Dream Weaved	Free verse	beautiful,celebration,for
Articulation of Tears	Free verse	hope,life,sad,
How I Miss You	Free verse	passion,romantic,
Fireflies	Haibun	love,nature,me,light,ligh
The Ghost of You, a Love Letter	Free verse	beautiful,loneliness,love
Friend	Free verse	friendship,perspective,
Away	Free verse	life,
Of Crimson of Rose of Fire of Love	Verse	fire,love,memory,
My Insolent Heart	Free verse	addiction
A Thousand Dark Secrets	Dramatic Verse	anger,angst,bereavement,p
Lament	Rhyme	destiny,sad,
In Search	Free verse	beautiful,bible,god,
Every Now and Then	Lyric	love,miss you,
I Touch Your Existence	Light Verse	love,
Bengal	Personification	nature,
Lifegivers Response	Free verse	bible,celebration,drink,j
Kiss the Wind	Light Verse	beauty,cry,desire,love,
Shabbat Shalom	Free verse	beautiful,devotion,love,r
Clerihew Soup	Clerihew	tribute,
Red Is the Colour of Passion	Free verse	love,lust,passion,
Bewitched By Beauty	Free verse	dream,romance,romantic,
Lately I'Ve Been Feeling Like:	Free verse	relationship,
Another Man's Clothes	Free verse	introspection,
The Mighty Hand	Blank verse	grief,life,mystery,
Haiku Versus Rhythm and Rhyme	Haiku	on writing and words
Beyond Infinity	Free verse	introspection,universe,
True Hearts Beating	Terzanelle	dedication,love,beautiful
Initiative	Free verse	friendship,life,longing,l
Hurricane Eileen - the Storm	I do not know?	dedication,
Half of a Heart	Concrete	health,heart,
Mirage	Free verse	life,lost,love,
The Lives We Choose	Free verse	freedom,universe,
The Big Bang	Free verse	beautiful,creation,love,s
Walk a Mile	Free verse	philosophy,
That's Good Enough For Me	Rhyme	family,marriage,proposal,
My Mind a Ship In Darkness	Free verse	adventure,,Lullaby,
She Whispered	Light Verse	inspirational,life,women,
Simple Words For Simple People	Prose	analogy,beach,beautiful,b
Beauty Abides	Blank verse	beautiful,desire,dream,em
Little Star	Light Verse	love,memory,
Fool the World	Light Verse	philosophy,poetry,
The Mourning After	Narrative	grief,loss,son,
Fire Rises	Rhyme	passion,passion,
King Sun and Goddess Sea	Couplet	sea,summer,
Five Stars	Quatrain	dedication,poems,
All I Want For Christmas	Couplet	christmas,
A Quivering Heart	Rhyme	love,life,
Opened Book	Free verse	books,emotions,metaphor,
Woman	Quatrain	woman,
Hidden Key	Free verse	creation,dance,dream,univ
Lace	Acrostic	sensual,
Cinder Girl	Rhyme
Figment	Free verse	beautiful,
Ugly	Acrostic	beautiful,image,
In the Absence of Moonlight	Quatrain	love,
Rainbow Symphony	Free verse	color,
Flower Song	Free verse	beauty,love,romance,
A Beautiful Truth	I do not know?	poetry,
The Teacher	Free verse	teacher,,literature,
Warm Solar Love	Free verse	love,moon,romance,romanti
Lost In the World of Lonely	Lyric	lost love,
Betty Boop From Beirut	Quatrain	dedication,love,
I Want To Leave	Light Verse	heart,lost,love,
Stardust Drench Me	Verse	hope,imagination,
Marhaba	Light Verse	heaven,history,mystery,
James Bond the Poet	Light Verse	humorous,life,love,romanc
Dampened Sheets	Free verse	beauty,love,lust,sexy,
The Question Mark	Light Verse	life,success,
Paper Lion	Quatrain	fantasy,
Arouse Me	Imagism	love,lust,senses,
Rosebuds	Free verse	romance,rose,
Eileen and I	Quatrain	love,peace,
That Exquisite Moment	Narrative	love,romance,
Wild Rose	Free verse	allegory,
Unlimited	Narrative	love,
Torchlight	Free verse	beautiful,love,romance,
Icarus Rejoice	Free verse	art,beauty,love,
Life	Prose Poetry	life,love,philosophy,
Hands of Light	Pantoum	faith,god,heartbroken,hop

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