Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Memories, Memory
Memories, memories of childhood
Long gone, come back, come
Let’s play a song, a game,
Let innocence flow like a flood
Throw, throw away taught stereotypes,
Enjoy the games with all blood
Types, mixed races, all are kids who prod
One another regardless of religious hypes.
Oh to be so free as a child’s kite
No cares about evil, pedophile,
Predators, child abusers, all file
Into a chest locked away in a fight
To stay bright with joy, unmindfull
Of obstructions to laughter’s song
That glides into deadened hearts long
For beauty to brighten the awful
Despair of a dutiful social being
Whose memories of childhood
Spring with cheer, geer, games bold
In their actions for social strictures having
Not been forged, so pushing borders
Is the name of the greatest game
Of childhood’s frame
Where laughter, fun are all starters.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab
Canada
Childhood memories shine like golden daffodils
Innocence shines under the sun’s warmth
Where bees play hide and seek
Amongst gay, laughter and cheerfulness
Children are like free kites
Where in clouds they smile
Their swings take them to high sky
Teach them to fly like a bird
Memories of childhood are like coloured rainbow
Where each colour belongs to each memory
Reflecting a soothing effect
Like dew drops at dawn on each branch
Memories reflect fear of ghosts and demons
Heart full of fear and anxieties at darkness
Joy, happiness, jovial harmony at each festivity
When vivid colourful threads bring us together
Childhood carelessness has faded away soon
From reality it has just come to a memory
Only we can enjoy its residue
The residue that will inspire us till death
The most precious time is childhood itself
The most worthy is its characteristic, innocence
Where guile never can interrupt
Where God can reside alone
©️®️ Debashrita Basu
India
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 