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Double Silver Certificate of Excellence, poem: Dualities

Thank you, administrators, for the honor.

Dualities

The binary opposition symbols in life have
Somewhat helped identify that you gave
Thought to the ‘other’ by describing
The ‘self’ through an opposing

Lense not unlike the way we divide
Our characters with Yin and Yan that hide
The existence of otherness within
That is Masked and out of site, in a bin.

The tree of life is no different
Then the struggle within that’s bent
On having ‘good’ win against ‘evil’,
Knowing the oversimplification that’ll

Persuade the peridic nature of anger
To cool with the calming breeze, paper,
That hang onto the branches, safer,
As emotions try to erode its beautifier

Of shades, hues of greens, pleasing
To the eye, while knowing that changing
From one state of emotion to another
Is as fugacious as the flow of a timer

Set off too swiftly to linger
On the abstinence of a greater
Power that helps settle the struggle
Making managing life easier than trouble.

©️ 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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Wish for Peace

A simple ‘Wish for Peace’, where children play, innocently not wake in fear as they hear a plane pass them by; where families have a right to live together,  where death comes only by accident or age, where the need for justice is stronger than making money, and where prosperity is achievable.  I hope this International Day for Peace brings up REAL PEACE.

Wish for Peace

The fragile beauty of the dandelion
In my hand whose grip on land
Dares you to eradicate its presence in Zion
As it spreads through the wish for peace to lend

A hand to those in need of a blend
Of peace in their days of suffering
Without end.
Wish for peace for them to send

Their children to schools
With filled bellies of fresh food
Sprinkled with life giving water that drools
In honor of a wish for peace that stood

On the doorstep waiting, waiting
Patiently for humanity’s response
To help save those whose beliefs, never straying,
Empowers their wish for peace

For a new generation without
The need to revisit the trauma of today’s
Dire escalations of genocides in a bout
Of cataclysmic fear whose only wish is for peace.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️

Published in: Petal Projections Magazine

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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Certificate of Outstanding,  acrostic poem: SOVEREIGNTY

SOVEREIGNTY

Suffocating the subjugated with sovereignty
Openly uttering negativity to sublimanate the
Vanity of the sovereign imposing rules,
Entertaining the ‘other’ to propagate being
Receptive to differences and acceptance of
Even alteration of ‘self’ to become
Instantly ‘sovereign-passing’, whose race is unimportant
Gravitating to implementing a ‘New’ identity,
Needing integration into society,  never
Trusting that your OWN IDentity identifies
Your language, culture, civilization that’s uniquely You.


©️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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Double Gold Certificate,  poem: Clown Mask

Thank you, administrators,  for the honor. Below please read the Double Gold winning poem:

Clown Mask

Of all the social masks I wear,
My favorite is that of the clown.
It’s cheery colors hide the circles under
My eyes, the blood red cheeks are a gown

For covering blotchy skin from bouts
Of crying concealed in my lonely room,
Where the walls are party to the clouts
Of invisible pressures well sheathed in a bloom

Of colors, passionate deadly red,
That’s double edged in giving me
My highs and lows, happy and sad,
While white’s my hope for peace that came

In the relatively darkened home,
Knocked lightly, politely asking permission
For entry. It entreats me
To join the calm within the raven compassion

Of a heart needing an outlet to its
Pent up frustrations, disillusionments,
Disappointments and loss’s gots
Its hold on the vice of hate’s

Antonym requiring a face lifted
Into a mask of joy pierced by the gift
Of faith, love, and will to be lightened
By their brilliance overcoming the dead lift.

©️ 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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Certificate of Excellence,  poem: Eye of the Storm

Can’t express my gratitude for the honor.

Eye of the Storm

The southern Belle stands knowing
The storm is imminent. She looks
Towards its development, but is gazing
Towards home, worried that all, in blinks,

Will disappear through the cyclone,
Flood, twister, desert storm, any and all
Possible, as she blinks and stands like a stone,
Her wandering mind building a fall.

A fall from greatness, as she and hers
Are destroyed by a destructive nature
That has no mercy, rather only a force, a scouter
For vulnerability, and pitilessly attacks

Land, sea, farms, concrete jungles,
Where none can stand up to the veracity
Of their powerlessness when faced by nature’s
Omnipotence over those living on earth, stately.

©️ 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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Interview with Peter on my book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change

I was honored to have been interviewed by Peter Okonkwo from Nigeria.  The topic was my poetry book, its meaning to me, my favorite poems, including a reading of a few poems. It was a wonderful experience to have.

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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Double Silver Certificate: Wormhole

Great thanks to the administrators whose hard work is always appreciated.  I’m honored they’ve chosen to present me with this accolade.

Wormhole

As the Wormhole siphones time,
It’s recycled and sent down for a prime
New look at what’s been done, as lime

Is sour and requires revisiting
Actions whose regret is culminating
In despair’s depression, hindering

All positive momentum. Stagnation
Halts your progress into a quagmire of rejection
Of all esthetics of developing a projection

Of change that surmounts captivating
Your potential, reigning in its joy, sunning,
Airing your problems, giving them wings, soaring

Into the azure skyline with birds, whose
Dire need for flight mirrors our soul’s
Urgent desire to relieve its cumbersome blows

Into a sea permitting you to see
The pivotal cacophony that clamors, like the bee
Buzzing to flee from the constraints that pee

On freedom’s liberating rebellion, key
To change and stomping on the caged monkey,
Man, who plays the ape to integrate into the sea.

©️ 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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Vacay: Tripoli, Lebanon

At the old Souk and old port where the architecture reflects the Lebanese history. The city is called, Tripoli, due to the 3 doors of entry to the city. The old ports history is filled with different civilizations, archeological artifacts, buildings that represent the marriage of cultures, and blending of religions into a united people.

There are three Souks: gold, clothing, and copper that showcase the melding of history and modernity. Their beauty lies in their preservation and continued upkeep.

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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Notable Submission, 

PEOPLE
Acrostic

P eople of color, native whose vigor
E nlightened the colonizer on ways to
O verpower the climate, use nature’s gifts
P opulate using a balance of needs and protecting
L everaging knowledge, honesty, innocence,
E xcluding ethnic cleansing of a native’s peoples.


©️ 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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Platinum Certificate of Excellence,  Poem: Woman’s Loss

Woman’ Loss

She stands with her bent leg on the wall,
Her formfitting white dress flows and fall
Below her knees, showing a slither of thigh
As she lays back on the white washed wall,

Her black hair coiffed over her shoulder,
As elegant as you please, with sunglasses, reflecter
Of the world, but a mask for her pain,
As a straw hat dangles from tips of finger,

She looks into the sky, wondering
If he’s watching and judging
Her actions after his loss,
Living a life without his supporting

Embrace, as she holds the tears,
Never giving them free reign, she bares
Her soul into her dark glasses and prays
For patience from the One above, and cries.

©️ 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