Poetry for Changei'm a survivorof 2 civilwars, Ghana, Lebanon, all before the age of 11. The result was immigration to 3 continents as a teen, which leaves an influence upon the soul that cries out for justice. My poetry and writing reflect that and more.
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work.
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
My Love
If “Love opens the most impossible gates;” and
“Love is the gate to all the secrets of the universe.”
Then, love is all powerful, eternal, rebellious, never bland,
But compassionate promise In a universe
Filled with dissent, competition, a love of money,
And sin. I give thanks that my love, husband,
Is my rock, my motivator, and one key
To my writing that’s unwavering and always holds my hand.
My love is there for the difficult decisions,
Guidance and friend to our children,
Has sleepless nights when they’re in positions
Of upheaval that require strategic precision.
For me, he is my star in a dark night,
The shoulder I cry into when life’s unbearable
Losses enrobe my heart in darkness, as he helps me fight
The devouring abyss making it acceptable.
©️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
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work. 🙏
Evil’s Moon
On the night of the wolf moon
The wolves howl to one another,
Communicating their feelings in a leer,
A gross grin that hounds the soul, a goon,
Fierce, a horrific distortion of beauty
As the full moon, its crevices, darken
The night into a fearsome howl that’ll blacken
The depraved souls into coal, crusty
In consistency, flammable, evil,
Evil reigns with its oppressive
Weight, that governs stagnant, progressive
Deterioration into lunacy that coil
Around the heart, squeezes,
Till the suffocating of goodness prevails
Seeking to seize all faith, beliefs,
Throwing them to the wolves, scavenges
In the unholy darkness
To spread depravity, not faith.
©️ 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
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work.
Mission: Escape
Whenever mankind faces existential problems
They have two possible opposing reactions:
Escape the present, and start somewhere else;
Or alter your priorities to advance survival of humanity.
Historically, when Europe wanted to get rid of criminals,
They placed them on a boat to the then ‘savagery’
Of North America, where indigenous people
Roamed freely, thriving without the need
That are imposed by the ‘guests’ who shot
And killed indiscriminately to take over the lands.
From this grew capitalist society that takes
Advantage of its population to grow in powers.
Today, there are no undiscovered territories or unexploited ones.
So … What recourse does humanity have for its survivals?
All that’s left is space, Mars, our closest Neighbor
Is millions of miles away with an uninhabitable atmosphere.
Technology is advancing at such an exponential rate
That a mission to Mars is a proven possibility.
Man’s an ostrich!!!!
He hides from his problems rather than face them!
Instead of spending billions on fixing earth,
He spends hundreds of billions on space travels.
How can we progress if we can’t solve our obstacles?
Civilizations will die down because of this,
And people’s acceptance of change is in paralysis.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
The Face of the Moon
Between late afternoon and twilight
The moon’s light is up for a fight!
It looks like a crescent of many shapes, flew:
Waxing Gibbous, First Quarter, to name a few.
Craters of darkest gray shadows,
That creep out of craters and crows
The light with its raven blues
Darkening, as the sun downs
Into dusk and gradually
Becomes a steeped ebony.
When the craters become prevalent
In the face of the moon that lent
A smile to its ever raven hue,
The smile grows into a grin that few
Can erase, as its cheer seeps
Into the skin, eliminating frowns that are bleeps.
©️Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Children meeting future partners, the upheaval, changes, new partners, family building, moving away from home …
Meetings
My children have met someone
That might become their
Partner, a life partner,
Whose aim is to keep both, never alone,
To start a family of their own.
Dealing with advice, first disagreement,
First time meeting anxiety lent
Some insight into meetings flown …
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
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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
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work. This poem is very close to my heart since it’s about mother’s and our fears.
Mom, Habibti
Mother, moma, mum, mama,
Who are you?
Are you just the giver of life?
Mom, madre, mami, mam, ma,
What would you do to protect your babe?
Legal or nefarious means?
Mother, oumi, mama, Haha, mà,
How do you love equally all your babe?
Do you prefer one over another? Why?
Mam, nanay, habibti, ema, mamma,
How do you empower all your babe?
Do you compare them and demean some?
Mami, mother, mom, love, Ema,
Love me for me!
Never send me away or leave me!
Mum, mother, maman, madre, Ema,
Don’t break my heart to leave,
Don’t break my heart and hate me!
©️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
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work. This poem is very close to my heart since it’s about mother’s and our fears.
Mom, Habibti
Mother, moma, mum, mama,
Who are you?
Are you just the giver of life?
Mom, madre, mami, mam, ma,
What would you do to protect your babe?
Legal or nefarious means?
Mother, oumi, mama, Haha, mà,
How do you love equally all your babe?
Do you prefer one over another? Why?
Mam, nanay, habibti, ema, mamma,
How do you empower all your babe?
Do you compare them and demean some?
Mami, mother, mom, love, Ema,
Love me for me!
Never send me away or leave me!
Mum, mother, maman, madre, Ema,
Don’t break my heart to leave,
Don’t break my heart and hate me!
©️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
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Wishing everyone a happy day to love freely without hindrance. Life without love becomes dreary and unlivable.
I hope you enjoy my poem about this celebratory day of love, compassion, understanding, and being there For one another.
Sweet Bear
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Your honey colored fur is the softest
Velvet, whose satiny sheen takes care
Of your compassionate heart
That’s all too aware of the hazards
That love has to overcome to stay
Strong in the face of peer pressures
That stung, like bee stings in play.
©️ 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
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work. The prompts were about cultural symbols of love given daily for 1 week. Below is 1 of those:
I PROMISE
Acrostic
I’m hardwired to nurture,
Promising to love you in sickness, health, and
Respect who you are without changing
Out your ethics, character, that
Melts my heart as your soft compassion
Internalized in our love, never to
Separate, except when it overflows to
Empower our kids in their lives.
©️ 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
Thank you, administrators, for the accolade and your hard work. It is highly appreciated.
Love’s Tune
Oh ye longing for life’s love
Hoping that holding hands
Heralds peace’s heavenly heaving hearts
Warming away the ice, waylaying the dove
Whose mighty hope in a world
That throws tantrums if the heart
Falls for its soul mate, whose burst
Of lava of emotions is a refrain that hold
A symphony of their making,
Dancing, singing to its tune,
At times frisky, bluesy, romantic, straining
To hear what’s unheard, love in a dune
That breezes alter and never
Croon in rhythm of trends that bloom
In antithesis to love’s truer
Form that never lets down the groom.
©️ 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
