Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Beautifully epic, Malak, the serenades of the sirens resound throughout your splendid poem with stories of lost heroes and “outrageous quests.” Your opening image of the sirens singing to the waves is exquisite; a symphony raving about a moonlit sky filled with stars is the perfect setting for the dramas you describe. Songs of dangerous traps, of terror and regret, survivor’s guilt, sagas of faith fighting despair, of gratitude for happiness, all call to sailors only wishing for the peace of home. For this they are willing to brave the fight. Perhaps following the syrens’ call to fight led them away from home in the first place. I love how you describe the content of the syrens’ songs.This makes your poem profoundly meaningful, and suggests the songs and stories we hear are the ones we tell ourselves, listen to and decide to believe and follow. Congratulations on this amazing, significant poem!! By Linda Powers O’Dell
The Syren’s Serenade
The syren serenades the waves
To a symphony of tunes that raves
About the moonlit sky filled with stars
Telling stories of outrageous quests
Some for saving loved ones as they traips
Into dangerous mountains, never fails
To entertain, garner emotional travails
Of terror, survival, guilt, regret for losses quails
The strength of faith, Belief in the quests,
Yet, they listen to the serenade of nights
Filled with wild sounds, crackling fires, that fights
The darkness of despair’s hold that blights
Happiness’ divinity that always gladdens
The soul in gratitude for the simple gardens
That grow In eternal darkness within heaven’s
Parade of scintillating beauties that never listens
To the cry of those sailors whose homes
Are all they wish for, for there peace comes
Within the arms of loved ones whose
Love, empathy bind them to the cause,
A cause whose tides rise in the night
But caress the shore In the fight
For taking a stand with humanity
Never resting till peace isn’t wishful thinking.
©️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
