Butterfly, butterfly fly around white, White, orange reaching out to fly, Fly on angel wings like the butterfly, Butterfly of varied hues give the kiss Kiss of pollination in spring, Spring as life rejuvenates in a painter’s Painter’s palette, whose colors Colors fall short of the Creator’s creations.
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.
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Your descriptions of autumn are glorious, Malak! Comparing the fallen leaves to a lion’s mane is brilliant, especially as you connect them with fallen glory. Then you extend your metaphor to humans: it takes courage, the heart of a lion, to drop our pretenses and show our true selves, vulnerable though they may be. Surviving the freeze of winter our spirits gallop toward renewal, all the joys of rebirth. Wonderful structure, rhythm and rhymes! Marvelous poem!! I didn’t know about lion’s mane, both the orange flowering plant and the mushroom that grows on trees, such an amazing thing! By, Linda Powers O’Dell
Lamb’s Flourish
As the colors of fall turn into reds, Yellows, burnished greens, browns, That scatter the ground in their lion’s Mane, their fallen glory, sad domains
Where it takes the heart of a lion To shed your colorful dress of a parroting wren, Exposing your vulnerability, a lamb in a pen, Waiting for nature’s freeze to be a hen
That protects her chicks from the cold Breeze stirring death in a breath, bold Stealth to hand over death to the unsuspecting old Bones, trunks, plants, whose hold
On life is precarious, but chance’s Regalia leads the weak into a prance’s Gallop towards spring, burgeoning lances Of beauty, strength, flowing stealing glances
At the reappearing hues of greens Enshrining nature with a depth that preens With its glory of colors, resounding in ferns Hanging onto trees, like burrs, never spurns
The life flowing through vains Flooding feelings of powerful cranes Spreading through the undergrowth in pains Of rebirth’s splendor and grains.
Let the lion’s mane flourish On the grounds, never selfish In sharing its beauty, that’ll never perish As long as you believe in the glow of the parish.
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.
Orphaned children of war, Are hungry for peace that’ll crease Away the trauma that resides, never sees The light after wounds, amputations that are core
To surviving the war. As children Whose childhood was decimated By loss, parents, safety, laughter, loved, Replaced by uncertainty, confusion, a burden
To those who survived with them, unable To function in a world where war Is the norm, peace is a broken contract far From the ideals of humanity that are incomparable.
Wars are nothing but a destruction of humanity Loss of kindness, sympathy and love Domination of a power over the world Killings of many innocent women and children
Many physical scars are there But psychological scars will never be decreased It will destroy the innocence of children Who are the victims of wars
Orphans of wars Become victims of permanent fear and anxiety Their sufferings are equal to God’s sufferings Their pain means a lot.
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.
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Fantastic poem, Malak! Counting calories is hell! This poem is an excellent indictment of how we allow ourselves to be brainwashed by cultural norms, thus setting ourselves up to be victimized by crass marketeers of fraud. You as poet do proffer the hope that we may be awakened, enlightened by love, but that too often turns out to be a fairy tale. You raise such profound questions.To what extent are we shaped by stories and expectations? How free are we when we are so susceptible to cultural influences. You’ve created gut wrenching, powerful images and some wonderful scattered rhymes: hen/pen/wren, refrain/brainwashed, flees/deep, etc..Hurray!! By, Linda Powers O’Dell
Your poem is a masterclass in satire, Malak Kalmoni Chehab perfectly captures the endless cycle of dieting with such finesse, the way you weave words is truly creative. By, Ritu Shyam
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Diet
Diet shmyiet, what a gross lie it Is told to men and women To market Products, tasteless, gross hen
Where the pen is the dieter’s Wren speaking in a singsong Refrain to honor the brainwashed Who follow like Lambs to the slaughters
As they count calories, Exercise till exhaustion flees Into Snow White’s deep sleeps To be woken, only, by love’s
Kiss, a fairytale designed, Like the diet, shmiyet, to inculcate A perception of self that changed With trends of beauty’s fate.
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
A dirty stuffed white bear Thrown, thrown with the blue Garbage bags haphazardly bare The signature of disowning the few
Possessions that have lived Through childhood’s changes As growing is synonymous to dispossessed Of imagination’s flow in ages
Where a bear’s innocent eyes Bare witness to catastrophic Events, from divorce, to cries Of violence, to bombs that are cathartic
In their release of pent up emotions That only the innocent bear perceives And gives succor where hidden sensations Are incubated within this cuddly stuffies
Innocently hidden for years Before the child feels strong enough To survive without his secret prayers’ Confidant who seems to be rough
Around the edges, but still soft To the touch as he imparts comfort In the imprisoned loft Where tears poores out in the fort
Of his making, where secrets Are hidden, trauma rises, pain Transmute into rivers of bloody tests Overcome with faith, ethics enliven
The soul with power Suffusing limbs, heart To be stronger And live longer, healthier.
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.
I was over the moon when I received this email: 3 poems, Two Way Street, Ghouls of War, Poetic Castle, are all to be published for a great cause: Feeding children in NEED. All proceeds from the book go towards the charities around the world. Not only do i get published, but also help children, and connect with poets, a great Trifecta for me!
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.
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.
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.
‘In the garden where secrets grow, Colors dance in a vibrant show’ As secrets grow in each blossom Where rainbowed hues bloom
In varieties that astound the eye Hidden from the sight of those who fly By seeing only tangible beauty, while This garden can only be perceived with the guile
Of childhood’s ingenuity that discerns Patterns unseen by those whose senses Have dulled with time. So, the child finds The key that opens a doorway to gardens
Of Eden where the flytrap behaves Like a pet, while the Cobra Lily heaves Bubbles filled with rainbows that strive To seep into the world with endless hope to give
The Death Camasa flair of colored scents Dazzle the olfactory glands in a bid to circumventing Its natural toxicity, for the child only sees beauty While adults fear the unknown blindly.
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.
Thank you for the honor and your hard work. AURORA Astounding colors painting the sky Under twilight’s light, breathtaking Roar of imagination’s vibrations written On the horizon with a painter’s precision Rearing up for another spectacular vision Awe inspiring in its hopeful beauty.
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.
Poetry for Change 