Poetry for ChangeIf you were forced to wear one outfit over and over again, what would it be?
After Covid, we became lazy and only wanted our comfort today, so, yes, I’d wear sweats over and over again. However, that doesn’t mean that I’ll not alter the colors nor forgo my usual style that goes hand in hand with comfort, color, color, and more color. That is all it takes for me to feel better!
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Her sensuality entrances,
Her movements’ elegance attracts,
Her swirls and twirls riveting
In their quest to be enchanting.
Her steps, stomps, and jumps,
Each emanating from her soul’s
Foray into the unknown, untraditional,
As she appropriates formal steps for male
Adds her feminine flair,
Her golpe, stomp, louder, stronger,
And original, while her Latigo,
The whipping of her toe
Flies through her body like
Electricity, jumping from joints’ stake
To vessels with passions ornate
In their effect on the audience, elate
In acceptance that Carmen will
Live on, in her form, moves, still,
Memory serves , placing her on
A pedestal, difficult to reach as yon don
Your war paint, trying to face
Life with a vigor that today has lost its place.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
I’m so thankful for this honor from the FB group, The Writer’s Wave, for their enjoyment of my poetry.
Thank you 😊
Eid Mubarak to all, may peace, prosperity, health, and happiness follow your footsteps.
Eid, for me, is highlighted by gatherings of family and friends in order to mark this holy day. With people, we always have food, of course! Today is no exception. Desserts consisting of a butter cookie, ghraibeh, and semolina cookies stuffed with either dates or walnuts.
Eid Mubarak to all, may peace, prosperity, health, and happiness follow your footsteps.
Eid, for me, is highlighted by gatherings of family and friends in order to mark this holy day. With people, we always have food, of course! Today is no exception. Desserts consisting of a butter cookie, ghraibeh, and semolina cookies stuffed with either dates or walnuts.
Eid Mubarak to all, may peace, prosperity, health, and happiness follow your footsteps.
Eid, for me, is highlighted by gatherings of family and friends in order to mark this holy day. With people, we always have food, of course! Today is no exception. Desserts consisting of a butter cookie, ghraibeh, and semolina cookies stuffed with either dates or walnuts.
How do you waste the most time every day?
My first love is reading. I’m a junkie for all types of romances, poetry, news, and the Quoraan. The first 2 are there to improve my writing style and incorporating new forms into my poetry. The news, however, I use in order to add eco-socio-political issues in my poetry.
Now, your question would be, how are the readings then a waste of time? My answer is that they all give me an escape, a world that I interact with that’s entirely mine. Perhaps it’s selfish, but I believe each one serves a purpose for me.
As for the Quraan, that too is an escape into faith, where belief, ideals, and values are unchanging, clear, and just. At least, that’s my perspective.
Being honored for my poem, My Powers.
Enclosed is an exert of the poem to wet your appetite for more!
My Powers
Believing in yourself is the first
Step to building strength that doesn’t rest.
Then, listening to others, not needing
To participate, being unjudgemental, hearing
What others need, interject, harboring
Your doubts and advice so as not harming.
Speak my mind, state my faith,
Being proud of my achievements whose…
Faith and belief are the core
Of my power to never bore, …
My scars, those that society frowns
Upon, are my badges of honor, survivals,
Will, and mind over matters
That seem trivial in light of my powers.
Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood?
Whenever I have a pita, butter, sugar sandwich, or sweetened condensed milk, I feel like I’m 7 years old again. I’ve always had a sweet tooth that hasn’t changed!
I still love my sweets, but my palate has evolved to become a bit more sophisticated. Now, I love sweets, but those homemade, like the mamoul I made for the upcoming Eid. Left is a semolina cookie stuffed with walnuts, sugar, and orange Blossom water; right, date semolina cookie. The smell sent me back 4 decades as my mom used to do the same, still does.
What’s your favorite thing about yourself?
I’m tenacious about things I believe in. Plus, if I know I’m capable of achieving a goal, I work hard, even if it means I fail several times before attaining my objective. Case in point, my writing!
Author of poetry book, Perfectly Flawed, poetry for change
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Farther, frantic, frivolous, funny
Arbitrary, amazing, amorous, angry
Terrified, terrific, tutor, tumble, true
Healing, hearty, heavenly, hotheaded
Embrace, empower, enormous, encouraging
Rare, rowdy, resolute, resolved, remembered
All of these and more apply to a Father.
A day a year is never enough to appreciate
All he does for his family.
Sacrifice is his middle name,
Silent support is his first,
Power and strength are his last name,
A pillar of wisdom is his endgame.
Author of poetry book, Perfectly Flawed https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
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