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Platinum Award for my collaboration poem with Dr. Laxman Sahoo, Wander At Night

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Wander at Night

A night
When the moon is shining bright
Lights up the darkened road as he
Walks alone, with his cane

Illuminating his path at night
As the forests and mountains fight
To cover the dirt road combating
For supremacy, as he walks by, thinking…

As the beautifully quiet night
Envelops his being, his Wandering flight
Into the unknown natural dangers,
Not forgetting the man made ones

Even scarier in such a darkened night,
When owls and predators alight
In a feat to survive and reign supreme
In a world of beauty, and night
When evil rules minds and dives into sin.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️

As he wander and cannot sleep with eyes closed.
He walks barefoot, with his feet on the dewcovered
Grass, the shepherd boy, with a plough and cloth protecting his shoulders,
He walks to the field before sunrise.
He has to walk miles down the hill,
With clothes in colorful bursts
As winter comes for the Babus!
The laborers, the poor are always poor.
They have to endure hardships with masked smile.

Open your eyes, oh ye rich people
The poor around you are helpless.
Those in your service are suffering on cold nights.
They are suffering in sleepless pains.
They walk with hungry eyes before sunrise.
Ones go to golden fields to worship Maa Lakshmi.
Unselfishly holding ond to faith as savior..!!!

India, Odisha/19/12/025
© Dr. Laxman Sahoo

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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Review and accolade for my poem,  Say Farewell

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab So many awful things to leave behind, amen! Your repetition of Farewell to these losses, traumas and horrors is both powerful and poignant. You portray them with amazing images and intriguing rhymes. I like how you alter your repetition to speak to hope for change and harmony. Wonderful poem, bravo!! 👏

By: Linda Powers O’Dell

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Say Farewell

Farewell I say
To another year, slipping
Into yesterday in a blink eying
The world through a backward lense to play

Farewell I say
To war that followed into genocide
Where white phosphorus is a guide
To death that’ll pay and say:

Farewell I say
To colonizers whose dominance
Is nothing but a posturing stance
That rides a high till it lands in grey

Farewell I say
To the muck of horrors that movies
Would fear to display as crazies,
For, to them I lay

My farewell to say:
Leave the people to their freedom
Don’t subjugate, ruin, destroy as you come
To steal resources under cover of pray,

So, say farewell to the grey
Quagmire of losses, trauma that sway
In harmony with nature creating a stray
Wind of change that’ll cross oceans and pray …

©️ 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 Appreciation for my poem,  DIVULGE

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Acrostic
DIVULGE
Divest, direct, divulge secrets of war
Instrumental for dominance with a
Variety of armed tech that kills, remotely,
Unforgiveable, unfettered violence against
Less armed people, who just want to
Greet the next morn with knowledge of
Expecting a future that’s unhindered.

©️ 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, Resistance Is Futile

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‘Resitance is Futile’*1

We’re being bombarded, daily,
By subliminal messages, hourly,
Whispers of drugs, violence, alcoholics’ enduced hazes, minutely,
Incorporated in ALL media, compulsively.

Resistance is Futile …

Words, sounds, images coalesce
Into an indoctrinated presence
That’s insidious in its convergence
Into your mind, creating a blinding trace

For behaviors that are incongruent
With ‘our’ Ideals of humanity, that are esculent
By mediocrity of addiction becoming permanent,
As our dependence skyrockets into exponent …

‘Resitance is Futile’ …

As our struggles persist,  our
Vision, imagination, purveyor
Of our strength of cohesion, flutter
Into a bud that flourishes in power.

As ‘Resistance is Futile’,

Our obstacles remain tangible,
Yet, clearly, unattainable.
The need to strive to be corrigible
Is embedded in our DNA, for hope is always tenable.

Thus:
‘Resitance is (Not) Futile.’


*1. Star Treck, the Borgh, a a cyborg entity trying to Conquer worlds, says this to Captain Pickard when they wish to invade earth.

©️ 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