Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Cunning Forest
The branches, arms whose scratchy fingers
Reach out to the sun in supplication’s furors
As they imbibe their chosen nectars
From the sun’s rays of energy, golden scepters
Vying for each caress to shine brilliantly
Off foliage, rainbows of greens, roses, gangly
Rousers of spreading life beams comically
As the petals of the flower spread soaring languidly
Into to the sky, as though it’s natural
For flowers to fly and stay in perpetual
Flight! Then the moss greens jump with the gall
To croak into a sepulcher of green that pall
Into insects that crawl, fall into a sea
Of fauna riddled with danger, not just a bee
But brightly colored serpents that make feel free
To pick as their beauty Dazzle, but their bite is the fee
You pay for holding such wonder
In slippery hands filled with fear
As it opens a mouth filled with canines, needlers
Of poisons of the same colors as their skin. As per
Forest law, the strong prey on the weak
But their jeweled colors deceive you to look
Closer, a risk not for the faint of heart that brook
A charm that leads you astray, so peak
Into this enchanted forest of amazement
But take care not be ensorcelled by its sharp bombardment.
©️ 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 