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Certificate of Excellence for my poem,  INQUILAB

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INQUILAB

Illiteracy is obliterated by learning
Never stopping from acquiring knew knowledge in a
Quest for improvement through Inquilab
Understanding that the pen’s power strives to
Implement change through a mindset of
Liberating rebellion against oppression’s hold
Amassing a following, generating strength
Building unity that overpowers the oppressor.

©️ 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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Award of Appreciation for my poem, Energy

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Energy

Everything gives off energy,
People give out vibes that are clingy
To their character, soul, and humbly
Vibrate at a frequency that’s seemly.

Plants, shrubs, and trees are no different.
Have you stood by vegetation not cement?
Felt the energy emanating in a vent,
Reaching out to reduce anxiety onto a splint?

As my tactile senses overtake me,
I feel energy all around me:
People,  cars, trees, parks are tame
And engrossed in a game that’s not lame.

As I touch a living plant, I feel
Its need to enrobe me in its touch,
Its simplicity and innocence that fill
My fingertips with a current that’s a badge

Of honor, as not all have the same
Level of sensitivity to fall under
The wonderment of nature’s thrall, and name
Man as its destroyer without any rancor.

The life force, energy,  magnetic field
Are all one and the same, as each
Creature eminates a void, imagination, that embraced
Its emptiness by acknowledging its existence.

©️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,  Not a Saint

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Not a Saint

Being a Saint is boring,
Always the good deeds, never frowning,
Yet we know that your aim
Is to be the best and claim
Sainthood, but knowing that your
Humanity is your downfall, emotions a chore
To suppress, overcome your vulnerability
That’s inculcated in your DNA, not a probability
Rather a truth that needs accepting,
Acknowledging its veracity by proclaming
That Sainthood is goal, unachievable
But still you try to reach the possible.


©️ 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 Diamond Certificate for my poem,  Sparrow’s Visit

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The Sparrow’s Visits

The sparrow always came
Hopped a few steps, never lame
As he carefully sniffs if danger
Is present before moving closer

To the old man who feeds him, his family
Daily. Slowly as not to scare the gnarly
Fingers away, he wades slowly
To his friend and nuzzles his hand, barely

Touching, yet it’s enough to connect
Sharing a moment of perfect
Understanding that the sparow
Visits more than the man’s family as life’s flow

Tangles them in chores leaving
Him out of the loop while his preaching
Is shared by the sparrow while nature
Awakens, hibernates, changes in pure

Reflection of the old man’s life
Whose autumn years are numbered, rife
With pain, inconsolable fore the wife
Is long gone, kids busy, but the show lives in life.


©️ 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 Distinction for my poem, Innocence’s Plight

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Innocence’s Plight

From BLM to ICE raids
From a home to rubble
From fields of olives to burnt lands
From stealing old olive trees
To destroying homes
From armies helping settlers,
Be oppressive to decimation of properties
From innocence to disillusionment,
From childhood to ancient wisdom
From mobs striving for justice
To being over policed by injustice,
From free speech to changing
The narrative to better suit their storytelling,
A new version of reality, lies
That destroy virtues, moralities,
And decency that an integral part of our humanities.


©️ 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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Silver Certificate for my poem, Lonely Bench

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Lonely Bench

As the empty, lonely bench
Stands alone in the field’s empty lane
That was filled with pattering feet, clench
Their hands together, riding, running, fain

The need to socialize, expanding
Energy, that seems boundless,
Enjoying the freedom of summer, fleeting,
As those moments become heartless

Dissipating into the waiting emptiness
Of autumn’s fiery colors blessedly
Oblivious that summer’s cheer
Has bloomed into the sky’s grey, charcoaly

Horizon, never to return the same
But better, if one appreciates their
Significance: nature’s hibernation came
With a time in spring, rejuvenation’s care

That dares to bloom again,
From a seeming emptiness that’ll
Gain depth, strength,  beauty that’ll train
The eye into its wondrous refrain.

©️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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Peace for Palestine,  an International Anthology dedicated to Gaza published Chapter 25 with 3 of my poems

I’m humbled, flabbergasted by the honor of having a chapter for my 2 poems about Gaza.  The topic of Gaza, the humanitarian problems, genocide that has been ongoing for almost 3 years has had a deep effect on me.  Knowing that I have access to simple utilities,  taken for granted, is in and on itself difficult to digest.  Even worse is the fact that when hunger striked and International Aid locations opened up, the Palestinians were shot down simply for trying to stay alive. 

This Anthology, link below, is a collaboration of international poets who agree on the fact that peace is necessary,  humanity is failing Palestinians,  and our pens, minds are our rebellion.

Link to Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7NQM5GT?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cso_cp_mwn_dp_0BXVQB0JXZ6E34YK9NNK_1&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cso_cp_mwn_dp_0BXVQB0JXZ6E34YK9NNK_1&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cso_cp_mwn_dp_0BXVQB0JXZ6E34YK9NNK_1&bestFormat=true

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,

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Free in Space

She soars free into space
Her raven black hair flows
Like wings behind her as she thrown
Her head back in appreciation, grace

And contemplation of the woes
Left behind as she raises her arms
Back in a dancer’s pose covered in sheer palm’s
Leaves in bronze, contrasting with black sky that rose

In stars and blots of light
Surrounding her lovingly
As harmony from within translates outwardly
And brightens the sky in a spotlight

Of infinite possibilities as imagination
Takes a deep dive into the stratosphere
Hugging her form in jewels that peer
Into her soul, ready to steal her fraternization

With a world in chaos, yet she imposes
Her absolute wonder with the simplicity
She reduces the world for her to flee captivity
Of depravity’s prison, shakles like roses.

©️ 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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Double Platinum Certificate for my poem, Dangling Moon

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Dangling Moon

Sitting on the tip of the crescent moon
Dangling her legs, pushing off, swinging
As though the moon embraced her in a cocoon
Of life’s laughter, lighter than lightning,

Brighter than the stars’ brilliance,
A comforter of the soul closer
To heaven’s doors, seating, no coincidence
That the moon hovers, never a loser,

But changes everyday in looks
From crescent to full moon,
Each highlights its own beautiful hooks
That enliven hope like a boon,

A boon from GOD to humanity,
A circle of dazzling blessings
Enrobing my imagination, flowy
Possibilities into dreams, not guessings,

No certainty that the light of poetry shines
To guide her plight into a roadmap
Of strength built on patience, never fines
Her more than she can conquer in a lap.

As she swings on memories that mirror
Her plight of losses that flow
Like the changes in the moon, a bower
For rest as I swing under the full moon’s glow.


©️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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Accolade and Review for my poem,  Ignoring Lies

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab “Honesty is 

revolting against lies,” what an admirable theme, Malak! It is a great feat to oppose deceit! There is so much destructive moral corruption flooding our society with lies that I fear it is becoming dangerous to protest. We must resist and your poem is a beautiful call to that cause. The innocent victims of atrocities are waiting for some sort of justice. We as onlookers require redemption. Your writing is wonderful, so powerfully and profoundly expressed.  The rhymes and rhythm are splendid.  Thanks so much for sharing this superb poem! By, Linda Powers O’Dell

Ignoring Lies

As the media plays its deceptive role
In the humanitarian atrocities taking place,
We witness two radically, opposing
Perspectives playing out without understanding

Which reality takes precedence,
Nor which realities are factual without presence
Of alterations to increase dramatization
That skews perspectives of oppression

And horror of the atrocities faced
By victims of an unending war, as they prayed
For absolution of their sins while witnessing
Death’s magnanimous stealth, stealing

Away an easy end with a suffucating breath
That gurgles out, indecisive if life is better than death.
Who’s to say that opposing deceit
Is NOT a great feat?

Honesty in revolting against lies
Awakens consciousness that pries
Away the screen that’s hoodwinked
Those who wished for ignorance that burdened

Them with the knowledge
Of their own moral corruption on a ledge
That destroys without question
By enforcing rules of misplaced adulation.

©️ 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