Songs of Searing Desert Storms

About the Book

Some people can change their character like their dresses, some can never do so; they remain faithful to the principles born with them: real, genetically true.

I am the one . . .
Whose passion is stronger than her mind.
Her priorities must persist even if she can’t apply.
She cannot lie and change colors.
She can’t bend when things seem unjust.
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Dr. Sylva Portoian is the winner of the Carnegie Price for Poetry, 2009

About the Author

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.