extinguish – Poetry for Change

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Fantastic use of images of fire, flames, explosions, and burning, Malak! Your thematic repetitions and sharp images make us face directly the tragedies of war, wars fought stupidly for supremacy. By using rhyming couplets, you create a montage of horrors and impending disasters. Congratulations on this powerful protest poem so rich with thrilling images!! By, Linda Powers O’Dell

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Fire, Fire

Fire, fire, burning so bright,
So many fires needing to be put out!

Fires of explosions of wars,
Death and dying vying for supremacies,

Amputees trying to outrun the burning
Fires of bombs, exploding cars, gas hissing

And licking up the flames in flight
To overwhelm everything it touches and brought

New life to the dancing flaming fields
Where farms used to be full of buds.

Fire, fire, burning bright into the night,
A flag of might, as it poors over a fight

To live in love within a world burning
In chaos of its making, sizzling

Like the charcoal grilled bird,
Linked in pain of being burned.

Fire, Fire, burning me inward
As loss and grief drowns me when I had

A burning fire for the future
To look forward to, that’s now a jailer

Of captured dreams, up in flames
As depressing fire rages in a gamut of times

Of blistering hell fires, eternally slithering,
Simmering, spreading, engulfing, quietly smothering.

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