Oh Ye bloom In fugue Reverie of Vellichor world full Of books of yore, create Utopia, a fool’s house, Paradise filled with crazy bee Whose imagination buzzes like a Virtuous maiden in a tree of life Covered in the seasons of change whose vain sepulcher is nature’s reign that is Trained Over a Book’s refrain that Delves in beautiful images Of graceful rainy grain Of sand that travels Around parts of Beautiful Parts of World
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.
From this page of the ancient book, This delicate pink rose has traveled The seven seas, ancient empires have seased To exist, while its beauty, color, and break
Grow into the roots of the nook in the book As it cascades its freshness, fragility, Strength, and independence in lacy capacity Of petals that rise towards the sun to look
On humanity’s history book Guarding its secrets, fragile, violent, Yet, it rebels and grows still resplendent In a lackluster world filled with a crook
Intent that borders on sacrilege against the book Of God, that brooks no uncertainty In knowing that the perpetrators will simply Be punished for their irreverent belief in a look
Of masked piety that reveals its artifice When faced by the innocence of the blooming rose.
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 What a lovely acrostic, Malak! To address a personified quill is such an intriguing, rhetorical way to address your theme. Piety and self-restraint are being lost to egotism and self-interest. What delights me most is that it is the quill that has failed to prevent this change by underscoring it, by speaking out, and now the poet asks the quill for advice on how to reverse this change. This irony is poignantly clever! Thank you for sharing this superb poem!! By Linda Powers O’Dell
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab This is a great description of the changes in society! leaving piety and discipline! love of self without restraint! so true! poignantly written! By, Brilla Fernbright
Acrostic QUILL
Quill, oh quill of yonder years, have you Underscored the differences of then, now, beyond? Ill prepared for the demands of a world Leaving piety, discipline in order to be lost in Love of self without restraint. Advise us, oh Quill.
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 Supremely joyous and uplifting, Malak! Oh those halcyon days of carefree play! “Let innocence flow like a flood” is a beautiful invocation. It speaks directly to our memories. We know exactly what it means without having to pin down the exact meaning of the word. You allow the reader to relate to it personally. You appeal to the truth that all kids are the same. Realization of our shared humanity should encourage us to reject stereotypes thereby restoring our own innocence. You invite us to focus on the freedom, laughter and fun of childhood. A kite is a perfect metaphor, your rhythm and rhyme scheme are absolutely wonderful! Excellent poem about childhood innocence!! By, Linda Powers O’Dell
Thank you Linda, you humble me with your wonderful words.
Memories, Memory
Memories, memories of childhood Long gone, come back, come Let’s play a song, a game, Let innocence flow like a flood
Throw, throw away taught stereotypes, Enjoy the games with all blood Types, mixed races, all are kids who prod One another regardless of religious hypes.
Oh to be so free as a child’s kite No cares about evil, pedophile, Predators, child abusers, all file Into a chest locked away in a fight
To stay bright with joy, unmindfull Of obstructions to laughter’s song That glides into deadened hearts long For beauty to brighten the awful
Despair of a dutiful social being Whose memories of childhood Spring with cheer, geer, games bold In their actions for social strictures having
Perfect purity is putty, muddy Endlessly being turned into war Anchoring evil doers in thrones of power Carnivorous in their cruelty, heinous Evil activity that needs to be repudiated Far into a cave to emprison them so the Umbrella of peaceful camaraderie that Lent humanity a community of unity.
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab A beautiful poem extolling the wonders of all the seasons! Such delightful details:the many colored petals, the trilling birds and sly worms, the frolicking chicks, the falling leaves. These leaves don’t just die;they feed the forest so that it revives in spring after winter’s dominance. These are all sources of natural wonderment! Superb poem!! Hi Malak, there are several types of zigzag poems. The one I am most familiar with and use quite often indents the lines to form a zigzag pattern. I believe you are using it to mean alternating shorter and longer lines? This is an awesome new form for our list. Thanks for introducing it! By Linda Powers O’Dell
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 so much for sending your bio and photograph. I truly appreciate it.
I have enjoyed reading your poetry and am honored to include your work in the anthology. Your poems offer both beauty and depth, and I believe they will resonate with many readers. I was especially moved by the themes of family, memory, resilience, and the bonds that shape our lives.
Thank you also for sharing a little of your personal journey. The experiences you describe have undoubtedly shaped a unique and meaningful voice, and I am grateful that you chose to share it with this collection.
Your photograph is lovely, and I look forward to presenting your work with the care and respect it deserves.
Thank you again for your participation and trust. I am delighted to have you as part of this anthology.
With warm regards,
Julie Miles
Editor, Still Waters Anthologies
I’m excited for this new development, and I will keep you all posted as to when it comes out!
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.
Oh Aphrodite, your white roses Bloom to honor your deity, a groom Of reverence to unwavering gloom That pricked himself and turned them reds.
Yet those peaceful doves bestow Calm innocence facing despair With only thorns as weapons to repair The damage done to the chaos that’ll blow
Up in the faces of those who’ve Forgotten the hymns of gratitude That revel in atonement embued In simple living, where new beginnings have
Been lauded for their vision Of graceful kindness, given, returned, Through the fragile fairness, whose scent attracted Its audience into presiding over confusion
With leadership in radiance, Transparent in its intentions, Gracious in its need for interventions That create connections, reverence
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.
Silver light shines so bright, Reflects on your surface in a fight To blot out the blight Of oppressive night.
As it shimmers on the lake At night, it dances with shadows, fake In their adulation of your stake In everything that’s ensconced in black.
Its silver sheen is reminiscent Of the clouds’ silver lining that bent The impossible to their heaven sent Hope, that relies on faith not being absent.
As the night whispers fly Through the sky’s darkened horizon spy The golden moon strides in a cry Of faith that whispers in corners sly,
Where burgeoning flowers raise Their supplication in the breeze That carries hymns of faith, never a tease Whose gentle fragility will always please.
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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