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Accolade and Review for my poem, QUILL

Post author By Malakkc
Post date July 13, 2026
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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.

©️ 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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Accolade and Review for my poem, Memories, Memory

Post author By Malakkc
Post date July 7, 2026
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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

Not been forged, so pushing borders
Is the name of the greatest game
Of childhood’s frame
Where laughter, fun are all starters.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab

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Accolade and Review for my zigzag poem, Wonder Naturally

Post author By Malakkc
Post date July 4, 2026
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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

Zigzag poem

Wonder Naturally

Foliage free-flowing
Green, red, petals many colors
Explode in summer bliss,
Spring, beautifying the great scene
With wonder and birds that
Trill as they forage for sly worms
Calling out, frolicking
With mates, chicks, communing to, fro
Nature’s wonderment fly
As they all play role fallen free
Leaves scatter in a fall
Feeding forests with ease, ploy, coy
To rejuvenation
After frozen scenery won.
©️ 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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Accolade and Review for my acrostic poem: FEAR, BREATHE, THINK, ACT

Post author By Malakkc
Post date June 25, 2026
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Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Superb descriptive and advisory poem, Malak, about dealing with fear, the mind killer. It’s wonderfully clever how you show that each of these approaches to fear are complicated, not at all easy. We try to breathe, we hear our fears in our thumping heartbeats. We try to think, we’re confused by impulses to both flee and fight. We try to act, results are so uncertain, we may feel frozen. Excellent images, poetic form, poignant phrases and use of capitals. You are a true master of alliteration. “Morass of a lack of logic,” ” haloed heartbeats,” and “feasting feverishly” are wonderful! By, Linda Powers O’Dell

Thank you for the honor and your hard work

FEAR, BREATHE, THINK, ACT

FEAR
Fear: fast heart beats feasting feverishly
Every time fear ramps serotonin quickly,
Amply avid in avoiding pain, fastidious in
Remaining alive to tell the tale of FEAR.
FEAR

BREATHE …
Barely breathing, the brain astoundingly
Reveals its respiratory ease, by reviewing
Every fear, entering the data, waiting
Another moment for analysis, wading,
Through the morass of a lack of logic,
Hearing only haloed heartbeats, heaving.
Eternally aware of time flowing: BREATHE.
BREATHE ..

THINK …
Through and push through thinking
Halves my reasoning, homing only on survival
Instead of clarity of thought,
Never receiving the memo of
Knowing that ‘fight or flight’ is all in a knot. THINK.
THINK …

ACT …
Actively, arduously permitting action that
Covers slippery seconds of being frozen, while
Time reveals your success, failure, and your missing fervor.
ACT …

©️ 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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Accolade and Review for my poem, Moves

Post author By Malakkc
Post date June 22, 2026
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Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Superb double tetractys, Malak, that speaks heartbreaking truth! Those thousands killed in war are an indelible image the mind’s eye cannot refuse to remember. Beginning with one and two is clever, a nod to the double tetractys form and a perfect way to allude to how a devastating war may begin with just a few moves. Also wonderful is your ending in bright light, light that forces us to face the truth of war’s consequences. Excellent poem!! By, Linda Powers O’Dell

Moves …

One,
Two wrong
Moves started
In war that kills
Thousands, unspeakable actions paling
When faced with consequences, murders hunt
Amputees, fight
Trauma’s might
In bright
Light.

©️ 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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Accolade and Review for my poem, ‘Humanitarian Aid’

Post author By Malakkc
Post date June 16, 2026
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Malak Kalmoni. Chehab An amazing aspirational and inspiring poem. Malak. So much more needs to be done to help the less fortunate. And as you say, creating well paying jobs that support families and communities is the ideal. All people need meaningful, fulfilling work they can be proud of. By, Linda Powers O’Dell

‘Humanitarian Aid’

How’s philanthropy helping the down-trodden?
Charities galore, making money, beholden
To the filthy rich, who part cautiously,
With their material goods, heavenly,

Is their allocation as they help the needy,
Whose prayers for the givers are done loudly
In order for all to hear of their philanthropic
Activities, that are only a drop in the oceanic

Depths of need and devastation that exists
In a world where humanity’s enslaved and persists
In demanding accolades for what should be
An ethical and humane gesture to help people

In need of a helping hand here and there,
Preferably, a job that’ll give enough to prepare
For the task of supporting their family
In a bid to never fall under the miserly

Capitalist whose only thought
Is to where he can squeeze, what was taught,
The best buck st the expense of those
Who need it most, but will give it without pause

So their pride in their abilities
Shines in the eyes of families.

©️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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Accolade and Review for my poem, War

Post author By Malakkc
Post date June 13, 2026
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Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Great use of this form, Malak! Your inventory of humanity’s ills is shaped like a great weight bearing down on….Life. Superb how your first word is War which creates a north pole to life’s south. Around these connected extremes a myriad of troubles and suffering spins. Impressive poem!! By Linda Powers O’Dell

#Diamanti

                                 War
                         Terror, murder
                      Flow like oceans
           Struggling to survive mutilation
   Atmosphere of toxins spreading disease,
           Disasters hidden and shared
                     PTSD isn’t just
                      Trauma lived,
                               Life

©️ 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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Post author By Malakkc
Post date June 12, 2026
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Accolade for my poem, Field of Wild Flowers

Field of Wild Flowers

What are you thinking young
Lady? You flowy, strappy, flirtatious
Dress is designed for sensuous
Activity, yet, here you are, alone, among

The throng of wild, colorful flowers
Framing your strength in fragility,
Yet, they grow without human intervention, happily
Bending to the whims of natures

As it storms or shines, they’ll always
Be waiting for your return to admire
Their simple needs grateful for the pyre
Of sunshine that peaks and sways

Into your hair, hands as you sit
On your picnic blanket waiting,
Admiring, grateful for solitude’s unfailing
Reset button that helps you stay set.

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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Reviews for my poem, Lonely Moon

Post author By Malakkc
Post date June 7, 2026
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Thank you for the honor and your hard work. Im humbled by your empowering words

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab really vivid, clear imagery in this powerfully evocative piece. Thanks for sharing. X By Monty Baggins

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab A lovely poem about the moon shining on forest treetops covered with snow. Snow that hides footprints of human activity. In the moonlight the snow may seem lonely, but it may still turn to fun?
Your 9 lines, 5,4,7,4,6,4,7,4,5 syllable count, are beautiful descriptive; they set a compelling scene. Marie Harris, former New Hampshire poet laureate, is well known for experimenting with prose poems. By Linda Powers O’Dell

Lonely Moon

The full moon shines
Above the forest
Treetops, where winter flurries
Deposit fluff,
White powder solid, hard
Ground hiding signs
Of footprints running, hunting
Loneliness to
Turn to fun alone.

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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Accolade and Review for my poem, Love

Post author By Malakkc
Post date June 6, 2026
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Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Thanks for introducing this intriguing new Hungarian poetic form, Malak. Clever use of assonance and consonance in the first three lines that mirrors the lengthening lines, (hon, honey, hopeful,) and then throughout, (lone, loving, tough, lonely.) Excellent contrast of “loving” and “lonely” in a if-you-
have-to-make-a-choice scenario. By, Linda Powers O’Dell

APEVA
Love

Hon
Honey
Hopeful, lone
Loving is tough
Better than lonely

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