Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab
Malak, your poem “Olive Fields’ Heritage” is a powerful exploration of history, culture, and identity, with vivid imagery and poignant themes ¹.
By: Dominique Albano Erecilla
Olive Fields’ Heritage
Oh ye olive trees, whose roots for centuries
Have spread into the Levant, your quarries
About the reason for being uprooted, buries
The foundation of civilizations gone,
Here, and yet to come are all rooted in one
Intertwined, integrated root that has a lone
Purpose: remind, recall, history’s lessons
The great highs and lows, artifacts, impressions
Of transience quickly replaced By processions
Of newer generations, all rooted in olive
Trees who’ve born witness to oppressive
Rulers, Just empires, horrific conquerors have
Marched through olive fields soaked
In blood where stories, history embraced
To create a film of varied heritages covered
Up with decades of erased traditions,
Language, culture, religions, whose comprehensions
And integration within one another is in suppressions
For to be transparent about heritage
Is to give truth free reign to soar in an age
Where lies, manipulation, a victim’s rage
Are hidden in order for a mainstream
Storyline to be carried above all, a crime
Against humanity, loss of compassion hidden in time.
©️ 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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