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Certificate of Appreciation for my double acrostic poem,  CAPITULATE

Double Acrostic
CAPITULATE


Concede that life is               diffiCult
Aspire to change the           unchAngeable
Persist in providing help to         Process
Intrinsic trends that hold             Impossible
Tenacity to hold on to               faiTh
Under duress of depravity     Unresponsive to
Leading in discipline, comfort,     Leaning to
Amplifying easy acceptance of    Another
Troublesome                                    Tenet that
Empowers dissolving families unitEd against trends.

©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️

My poetry book,  Perfectly Flawed poetry for change,  is available on all eplatforms including Amazon.  It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.

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Review for my poem, Patient Timeful Warriors

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Thats a Dang! Dear poet. Great circular trains of thought… The warrior as an antagonist alongside time and patience is intriguing, intelligent and strangely obvious and not immediately obvious at the same time… Any one who has served may resonate with this at a much higher level. Strong piece dear poet! 🙏🫡👍😃❤️

By: Zac Warden

Patient, Timeful Warriors

Patient time sidles around knowing,
Knowing that you’ll eventually learn,
Learn that warriors full of brute force,
Force that turns into violent regret,
Regret that eats away your happiness,
Happiness that dissolves as its transient,
Transient time comes and goes, waiting,
Waiting patiently like the intelligent warrior,
Warrior who strategizes using patience,
Patience for the right information and time,
Time that’s right to act not go in unknowing,
Unknowing the dangers, pitfalls sown
By the hands of enemies whose joy,
Joy will be untamable at your fall,
Fall from grace, for you forgot that time
Time and patience have always been chief survivors.

©️Malak kalmoni chehab ©️

My poetry book,  Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon.  It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.

https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518

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Certificate, Hallmark of Brilliance for my poem, Woman in Red

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Woman in Red

She gazes through the window pane
Daydreaming of times jeweled, in her mind
She wonders how she’s changed to find
Someone she can’t recognize in a lane

Of others who’ve become plastic
Replicas of a trend that reveres
The artificial instead of the natural seers
Who stand alone, against the flow, barbaric

In being bullied, effective in their honor
To prevail against the adamant need
To be perceived for who they are, indeed
They triumph in the end, like you and me, never poor

As we stand for values and ethics,
Beliefs that teach discipline, empower
Your self-confidence to soar
Into success without despair rooted in heretics.

©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️

My poetry book,  Perfectly Flawed poetry for change,  is available on all eplatforms including Amazon.  It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.

https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518

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Double Gold Certificate for my poem,  She Climbs

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She Climbs

Once upon a fairytale,  a young woman
Dressed in a grey flowy dress caresses
Her calf, flies with the winds of change, blesses
Each step on the decrepit stairs as she ran

Up to her waiting destiny, her knight.
Each step closer to her goal becomes
Brighter for hope shines like crimes
Hiding in darkness’ blight.

The baluster along the way
Changes from rotten to golden
As her aim comes closer, all of a sudden
She trips, falls as strong arms carry

The burdens she hauls a weight
Heavier than Atlas’ heavens up to a fine
Glittery tower where its bulk dissipates in line
With the rays that shine on meliorism’s height

That stomps out the blight of despair
That weighs her down, yet, she continues
To strive to achieve optimism’s news
That harken loudly into the pews of heavenly repair.


©️Malak kalmoni chehab ©️

My poetry book,  Perfectly Flawed poetry for change,  is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.

https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518

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Certificate of Appreciation for my poem, Winter Scape

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Winter Scape

The bare trees are adorned in white
Snow begging for the frost to go,
Take a deep breath and vapor will flow,
The deadly cold has frozen the lake in a fight

Against Niagara Falls’ powerful
Current vainly trying to escape
The icy sheets’ scrape, scratch in a leap
To continue on as a sheet, but, the full

Power of three lakes joining
Is never ending breaking of formed
Ice that disintegrated like glass, popped
Into the current, flop into floating

Unseen for the force the fall
Has broken it asunder, but it has only
Changed form into flowy watery
Water That crashes on rocks like a ball

Bouncing from its fall. The rainbow
Eclipses all the crystalline formations
With its arc of colors shining, agglomerations
Of beauty and hope brightening winter’s flow.

©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️

My poetry book,  Perfectly Flawed poetry for change,  is available on all eplatforms including Amazon.  It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.

https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518

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Review for my poem,  We Did Everything

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We Did Everything

We did all we could …
Yet, genocide is as deadly as beheading,
Death is as real as your breathing,
Living is as traumatic as a horrifying cloud.

We did all we could …
But child amputees are running marathons
To survive but another day as pawns
Of politics that’s gross as it hammered

That “We did all we could”, clause
That left pregnant mothers to die,
Elderly to fry in fire’s explosive dye,
Fathers to be scattered in pieces in cruel cries

That “We did all we could”, was
Said to assuage politicians’ conscious
While knowing their endeavors were shackled in pious
Prison, whose doctrine permits rapes,

Whose haze in, “We did all we could”,
Evaporates in the fog of time that flies
Without scheduling its prime in trauma that cries
Out to be understood, yet, their voices loud

And proud in the hopeful quagmire of guilt
Of surviving, whole or not, presses
In the abyss of despair where hopeless
Orphaned, erased families, press to built.

©️Malak kalmoni chehab ©️

My poetry book,  Perfectly Flawed poetry for change,  is available on all eplatforms including Amazon.  It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.

https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518

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Platinum Certificate for my poem, Dominance of Inner Self

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Dominance of Inner Self

Oh ye of self-importance
Have you woken from your delusion?
Look beyond your nose at the stance
Of those whose prancing is a vision

Of artifice, arbitrary,  and filled
With self-adulation, when one needs
To look within, the core of what’s valued,
As strengths while weaknesses need  to be gutted,

As nourishment needs to reach its potential
With the potence that will change
One’s failings into successes partial
To the susurations of peers, who range

In perceptions and influence,
Impose their views without consideration
Of whether their eminence
Will disrupt your self-worth, contrition

As guilt’s oppressive weight
Demeans your self-acceptance
Entailing despair is at the height
Of its influence if not for the persistence

Of your self-belief in your
Power to overcome obstacles
Thrown at you through life’s poor
Journey of building the inner self.

©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️

My poetry book,  Perfectly Flawed poetry for change,  is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.

https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518

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Platinum Award for my collaboration poem with Cherry Blossom, Eagles

Thank you for the honor and your hard work,  and Cherry, it was an honor working with you.

Eagles

Have you ever seen an eagle fly?
Does he ever cry?
Does he ever let you pry?
Pry open his wounds and lie?
Does he wail about life’s lie?

No! He asserts his dominance
And flies into the night sky, free to pierce
Into the depth of the blooming abyss
That looms, subjugating suppliance
Into subservience to his presence.

Be that eagle in flight!
Choose freedom and fight!
Drowning in misery is never right!
Fly with the eagle and shine bright!
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
I see the eagle soaring high with a burning soul
With wings of confidence, it pierces the night towards dawn’s glow
It never surrenders to the sky
It gazes at the sun without hiding its eyes

It rides the storm, fearless of lightning’s flash
It masters its flight, unafraid to fall
It finds itself in the courage to face its goal
Without hesitation, it flies beyond fear’s bounds

It’s the eagle, free to dance on waves with its strength
From the eagle, I learn that freedom lies within
Don’t fear obstacles, rise and fly
For success is determined by the courage to face the universe’s challenges

I’m ready to fly, to catch the stars of my dreams
And make them mine

©️ Cherry Blossoms  ©️

My  poetry book,  Perfectly Flawed poetry for change,  is available on all eplatforms including Amazon.   It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.

https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518

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I’m Flabbergasted by the numbers

I’m humbled, honored,  and highly motivated by the number of views that I’ve received this past week. It feels like the world is celebrating with me my son’s engagement with their support of my writing.  I’m speechless by the following and highly appreciate each critique,  like,  and follow. It drives me to write more. Thank you all.

My poetry book,  Perfectly Flawed poetry for change,  is available on all eplatforms including Amazon.  It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.

https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518

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Accolade for my poem, Stealthy Labyrinth

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Extraordinary poem, Malak, superb! Delicious creative allieration, ingenious rhymes in a sonnet, powerful extended metaphor, and a profound uplifting theme. I read this poem multiple times finding new treasures each time. One line that struck and moved me was, “Where negativity was the succor.” That’s deeply authentic.

By Linda Powers O’Dell

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Stealthy Labyrinth

A Labyrinth of life and living
Flies in files with the passing minutes,
Striving in sleaves of loss’ imprints
Are appropriate in their perfecting

Flight that they can’t be bound.
Imprisoned by imposed labels, categories,
Races, and groups that astound
In their versatility, but not humanities.

I’ve lived in this labyrinth of life,
Where negativity was the succor
Given by some of my entourage, that’s rife
With jealousy,  bias, and is a bereaver.

They suck out the optimism and
Joy of life out of each stupendous second,
That you fear drowning in the labyrinth
Of fiery destruction that steals your breath.

Instead,  let the minutia of the labyrinth
Turn into an adventurous life in stealth.

   ©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️

My poetry book,  Perfectly Flawed poetry for change,  is available on all eplatforms including Amazon.  It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.

https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518