Good and evil struggle to outshine One another, while evil seems To be winning as it destroys families, Creates dissertation, addictions that fine
The unity of community for egotism Reigns superior in darkness While light’s haven needs fullness Of discipline imposes on catechism
To succeed at goals that engender Hope, laughter, lightness of soul For those with compassionate tool Of love with oppress evil’s darker,
Fear that’s entrenched in subconscious Culture that reminds one of their lower Status in order to stay as the controller While the victim falls if not for the courageous.
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THE INVERSE LIGHT By MalakKalmoni Chebab, Canada and Dr. Frieda Norma Dela Cruz, Philippines
Malak Shadow, oh shadow of mine, I can only see you not feel you, What are you made of? Do you Touch me, unbeknownst to me and mine?
Frieda You are made of “absence” and of night, A “gap” where day’s bright promise fails, Yet, when the burning sun inhales, You are a true and inverse light.
Malak Of darkened shadow of mine, Shine your darkness into the key That lingers on my soul, never flee Leaving me alone, you’re fine
Frieda No, I will “lock” the lonely door, The self you hide is where I dwell, The well from which your deepest spell Understanding flows to pour.
Malak Oh shadow of mine, Steer my journey into light, Caress my courage, keeping it bright, Carry my darkness and imbue a line
Frieda I am the “anchor” that you cast, The deepness proving what is high, I cannot vanish, nor will I, For all the truth you seek is massed.
Malak Of shadow’s tendrils to cry: ‘mine’, For its loud whispers hover blindly Over me, protecting my soul kindly, So shadow, heal me and mine.
Frieda I am the “mirror” where you find The strength you thought was lost outside, Embrace the dark where dreams reside, And know the light lives in your mind.
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CHIAROSCURO Chained light, Heavenly bright Incessant shadow, don’t Avert the radiance of justce Reflecting right’s light Offering hope when despair is Somewhat easier to drown in, while Courage to fight the battles of equality Under the umbrella of darkened power Revealed in rays that shine a ritulant glow Over the dispossessed of humanity’s light.
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.
Dressed in white, hair, a golden flax, She lays on the fluffy white cloud Bent in a fetal position, arms hold The fluorescent moon under chin, lax,
In rest, she poses a vision of calm As the moon shines brilliantly In a frame to keep the fearfully Looped worries away from her palm,
And creates a luxurious beam Enrobing her in warmth Of light As she slumbers in the clouds’ soft, bright Lumanescence whose role is to brim
With courage and fight against The terrors within, A heroine never Given any fame, but like the moon, it’s a killer Of monsters that create panic, at a cost
Too high to endure, if it were not For the peaceful moon laying in arms Breaching the towers of fright, it calms The dread, horrors that she faught.
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.
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.
She looks out of her window Where the darkness covers the world Beyond her room filled with pink roses, in low Vases, littered on her windowsill, not a coward,
She watches the storm brew from within, Safe in her harbor, a haven of scents adorn Her with mystique, incomparable to the crow who built in Its home outside her window in a flow of corn
Ears reaching up to the sky, pleading, Pleading for rain to steep the soil with Life giving water, rejuvenating, healing, Giving abundance where famine takes away breath
Of life on a scorching summer day. She watches, lightning flutter in brilliant light As thunder booms its might, scaring those in play With extenuating fright whose plight
Will drown out their fears, replacing Them with a pinhole of hope shining Through the darkest raven blackness flying Into the sky with optimism sparking
A deluge of creativity unbound by earthy Trifles that bog the soul into a rut of endless routine.
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.
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Vikas Arora My warmest greetings!
Yes! The collaborative poem connects with the theme of light and shadow. Analysis of the Poem The poem directly addresses the theme of light and shadow both literally and figuratively. It uses the contrast to explore concepts like creation, balance, emotion, and human nature. Here is a breakdown of how the poem connects to the theme: Creation and Balance: The first stanza uses the “shadows” as the origin of creation, with beauty being born “into light.” This sets up the idea that light and dark aren’t just opposites, but are intertwined and necessary for a balanced whole. Metaphor for Emotions: The poem extends the metaphor to human experience, comparing “pathos” (suffering, emotion) and “richness of soul” to opposing sides of a coin. This parallels the relationship between light and shadow, suggesting that both are essential parts of our inner world. Literal and Figurative Light Sources: The poem mentions the sun and moon as literal sources of light and shadow, but also gives them metaphorical roles. The sun’s “ablutions” and the moon’s “passions” are presented as forces that “coincide in stabilizing” the world. This reinforces the idea of balance between contrasting elements. The Unavoidable Shadow: The second poem brings in the personal, unavoidable nature of a shadow. The line, “Wherever you may go your shadow stays with you,” emphasizes that our “shadow” or darker side is an intrinsic part of us, a constant companion. This suggests that we cannot escape the duality of light and dark within ourselves. The poem consistently uses the duality of light and shadow to represent other opposing concepts like chaos and order, emotion and soul, and the divine and the mundane. The recurring idea is that these forces are not meant to be separated but exist in a state of interdependence, contributing to a harmonious or “mellow” whole.
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Collaborative poem Malak Kalmoni Chehab & Drvikas Arora Canada India Theme: Light and shadow
Within the shadows, creation came from chaos A reign out of which beauty was born Into light, where balance isn’t a horn That divides but embraces the two sides, pathos
And richness of soul, are opposing Sides of the same coin of emotions, Equipoised similarly to sun’s ablutions And the moon’s passions coincide in stabilizing
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.
The night’s fading darkness Is illuminated by filaments that glimmers With piercing reddish hues Into a horizon of fading darkened blues.
With each touch of brilliant, glinting light The scenery is transformed, bright As a white pigeon in heightened flight, Soaring, like Icarus, too near the sun’s slight
Heat that tenderly caresses its feathery Wings across all living things, bravely Broaching the new day optimistically, Knowing that man’s destruction will invariably
Alter the breathtaking beauty of sunrise, Twisting its vibrancy into shades Of tenebrous grey, colorless, and lifeless, As everything becomes hopeless.
Let each new day be your oath To be stronger than the sun’s breadth, As you emulate its depth Of strength, that reigns above all in stealth.
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.
On a baby blue sky day, the castle Enrobed in golden rays shining Off arched windows, bright ball Reflecting the lives, deaths that call
Out to the living, teaching wisdom From history etched on walls, There’s always a place and time For all around to learn and come
To conclusions that help the living Improve their plight by learning From history’s lessons without any whispering Of war or fight that has corpses lying
Out of sight. The whale statue adorning The outer walls, inviting, spontaneous warning: All to enter its domain, peering Into a long gone era of traversing
Centuries of wisdom runs into The Renaissance era of science That delves into all that’s tangible, a foe To faith that’s documented in books that grow
In importance, for the morals Within are a blessing for the intelligent, Who want to reduce their workload, calls Out that learning from experience isn’t a falls.
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.
As light is hope and all that’s bright, Learning to love in the sun illuminates Your perception on values, character, that fight To blot out negativity that’s darkened puss
That festers as an abyssimal blight To optimism whose courage roars in Flight to piece together poems whose bite Is only a loving caress, as their images pin
Your beauty from words to face, wrinkled From endured hardships but glows With the passionate compassion of being loved. As you shower me with languid eye’s light, the fight throws
Away the scourge of love’s broken heart By filling papers with poems that brook No argument to its plight in trying to strut The words in verses and lines that cook
Your presence into the essence of love Unbroken by a pessimistic world that implodes When amour is at its best fighting in brave Behest of a soul needing rest in paper adobes.
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.
Poetry for Change 