initiative – Poetry for Change

Certificate of Appreciation for my poem, Ladder’s Initiative

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Ladder’s Initiative

Real success comes in knowing,
Knowing that failure is part of the ladder,
Ladder that leads to achieving,
Achieving goals as you adjust,
Adjust strategy, methods, motivation,
Motivation to perpetrate your inner vision,
Vision of implementing ethics, values,
Values that support your strength,
Strength to overcome obstacles that depress,
Depress but never give up the fight,
Fight for your aims, whether spiritual,
Spiritual, social, or career. Fight,
Fight for success that needs to be roused,
Roused with imagination, motivation,
Motivation that requires initiative,
Initiative and belief in self-worth.

©️ 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

Platinum Certificate for my poem, Women’s Wars

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Women’s Wars

Wars have always been about expansion,
Glorifying the ‘self’, stealing resources,
Empowering through the subjugation
Of the ‘other’ by binary opposition that courses
Through blood, and ‘elevates’ their superiority to deity.

From the Silk Road, to the Spice Road,
To the Swez Canal, White Sea, Ben Gurion,
All show the need for exclusivity for the broad
Perception of ‘Civilizing’. What a crock gone
Down the clock into eternal sleep. Happy.

For each critical endeavor, conquest,
Women rally the people, organize,
Fight, rebel, strive to keep morale, at best,
Alive within the hearts of people to strategize
Survival and the compulsion to resist oppression.

As the flowers bloom, so does the woman’s
Need to resist being lumped in a category
That she knows she doesn’t belongs
To, but rather asserts her judicial equality
In a society that’s still a patriarchy.

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