Poetry for Change
I’m honored, humbled by the accolade for my work as Moderator at Led Pen. I feel that it’s truly a joy not work as I read other’s work, perspectives, metaphors, and verses that impact the way I perceive things. Thank you for the honor.
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
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
The Cedar Is Me
I look upon the four hundred year old Cedar tree
That has survived such chaos, death, decimation
Of great forests of pine trees by invaders who ‘free’
It of its natural resources, life, and vegetation.
Encased in the trunk of the ancient tree, the world
Is small, burning hot under the summer sun, flashing
Its heat and brilliance to help everything grow into a postcard
That’s photoshopped into being breathtaking
In its organized life, only disturbed by humans barking
Out order for dissolving the inner and outer beauty of its solitude.
Slipping out of the of the cedar tree, I take my human form
And gaze astounded on my reflection: wrinkled skin,
Darkened splotches, and great disillusionment
Darkens the depth of my eyes as I lay bare upon the bank.
The scenes of war and decimation I witnessed
Have been imprinted on my soul, waiting for any deed
That will alleviate my despair that humanity is a dying breed
That needs new blood, ingenuity, and values
To help it defeat famine, war, racism, and religious discriminations.
©️ 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
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Staying Power
What’s poetry if not an agglomeration
Of words in rhyme and rhythm?
A world of poetic devices, accommodation
Of varied styles, structures that’s not grim?
What’s a love story
If not one that it has a start,
Climax, and end that’s happy or gory?
Where pink tinted Glasses reflect
The author and audiences
Need to escape life’s duties, stresses
That place tremendous pressures
On couples needing one anothers happiness’s
Without needing to compromise
Or putting in the hard work required.
‘What’s love?’, in that case?
That’s the staying power of being loved,
Loved for yourself,
Loved for your strengths, weaknesses,
Loved for your imperfections put on a shelf,
As your greatest power shines in smiles
That never dim while facing despair,
Despair That the bridge you’ve created
Can fall if your efforts only stare
Rather than repair the damage to be blessed.
Blessed by sharing love
With those of your inner circle
Who’ve proven loyal in grave
Circumstances while never living in a pickle.
The enchantment of poetic words
Lies in the esthetic that builds bridges
Between enemies, frenemies, lords
Of your hearts, whose presence is in poetic cages.
©️ 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
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Heart’s Dialogue
Oh heart!
If you could speak
What would you say? A beat,
Two, three, a squeak,
A tweet, a butterfly’s wing
Swings in soaring flight
Letting the beats sing
Their song of freedom, bright
Diurnal light shimmers
In flight a beat of harmony
Starting within, speakers
Belt out optimism’s loyalty
To faith, Belief, humanity
Wearing blinders to pressures,
Social, career, imitators, honesty
That seems to be researchers
Of one’s identity in a world
Teaming with too much variety
Of labels that grind and bind
Our conformity into piety,
While the heart stomps
Into a tamtrum of morality
That doesn’t blend but clamps
Its hold, trying to drown your honesty.
Let your heart speak
It won’t steer you in directions
That deepen the morass that’s belak,
Rather to happiness filled adulation.
©️ 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
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
COURAGE
Courage is defined by the press vest that
Outlived its owners, journalists speaking
Under extenuating circumstances of flying bombs
Retreating into cover, returning, knowing the danger
Amputating their fears with each Blast of their reports
Governing the truth that has been in a abyss
Encouraged to see the light with their COURAGE.
©️ 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
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Selfie
Setting up the selfie station:
Lights, cell stand, and her brand,
Typically, she holds clothing to unfold
Before it’s framed eternally on her blog.
She twists it this way and that,
Showing all its sides, but
None of hers,
Except, the image she shows.
Behind the smile and frivolity,
Lies a darkness, hidden from sight,
For fear of being judged carelessly
By followers that hold great might.
Anxiety is hers to cradle,
While happiness is to be shared,
And beauty is revered
As long as it’s easily bendable.
What is she trying to prove,
With her blog that’s on the move?
Is her ambition centered around
Follows and likes, without being bound?
I wonder what holds her prisoner,
In a world where artifice is power,
While, ethics and values take a shower,
And faith is flushed out with dirty water.
©️ 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 2025.
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Acrostic
ECOSYSTEM
Echoes of nature, a symphony unparalleled
Carves out places from sun’s heatwaves,
Omniscient in the laws, systems of nature
Sending energy in droves to heal, lower temperatures,
Yielding better clime for humanity’s rhyme.
Simply wondrous in the secret healing it protects,
Tempering its power To permit life to grow,
Energizing the ecosystem with floods, fires,
Merely to help the earth shine brighter than a dime.
©️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
Poetry for Change 