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Peace for Palestine,  an International Anthology dedicated to Gaza published Chapter 25 with 3 of my poems

I’m humbled, flabbergasted by the honor of having a chapter for my 2 poems about Gaza.  The topic of Gaza, the humanitarian problems, genocide that has been ongoing for almost 3 years has had a deep effect on me.  Knowing that I have access to simple utilities,  taken for granted, is in and on itself difficult to digest.  Even worse is the fact that when hunger striked and International Aid locations opened up, the Palestinians were shot down simply for trying to stay alive. 

This Anthology, link below, is a collaboration of international poets who agree on the fact that peace is necessary,  humanity is failing Palestinians,  and our pens, minds are our rebellion.

Link to Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7NQM5GT?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cso_cp_mwn_dp_0BXVQB0JXZ6E34YK9NNK_1&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cso_cp_mwn_dp_0BXVQB0JXZ6E34YK9NNK_1&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cso_cp_mwn_dp_0BXVQB0JXZ6E34YK9NNK_1&bestFormat=true

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

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Certificate of Excellence for my poem,  Oh Love …

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Theme: #PhraseOfLove
Oh Love ….

Oh love, your mere existence is never
Forgotten, once it is, then all is lost.
For love makes the world run in a fever
Of passion that plagues the heart, a post
For all to share its importance that not gross
Rather it gives calm, peace that’s always boss.
©️ 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

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Certificate of Outstanding for my poem,  Beach’s Stroll

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Beach’s Stroll

Hand in hand they stroll along the shore
Sandy footprints dissappear as swiftly
As they’re made, as their hands swing
Freely under the warm daylight, sunny

Ritulant rays caressing the fleeting time
That becomes nothing but memory
Imprinted on her heart, heavy crime
Of loss’ grime, leaving a residue of a ghostly

Chime of forgotten laughter,
Cuddles on scratchy sand that lingers
Longer than loss’ clam, whose wonder
In living without her partners’

Support, that she’s not a fan.
She gazes into the horizon
Waiting for a sign of rejoining the pan
That simmered with their love, not a poison

That could separate their camaraderie,
Understanding both weaknesses
And strengths that made the family
An unbreakable unit whose support suppresses

Stresses and anxieties built
In society to promote division
Of familial bonds so that compassion
Is lost, replaced by materialism and guilt.


©️ 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

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Certificate of Outstanding for my poem, Day of Genocide

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Day of Genocide

A day in the life
Of genocide takes a knife
To the throat of wife,
Children, elderly and all strife
Wishing peace were rife
Without death but life,
Mutilation, amputation, knife,
Rape, horrors uncatalogued, riffle,
Hidden, hidden in the destruction, stiffle
Corpses rotting, dogs eating fetuses, sniffle
With decency, compassion that’s a knife
To the death of humanity’s conscience for life,
As the death toll explodes like a meatloaf,
People cry out from hunger, stiff
From lack of nourishment while grief
Takes them into an abyss of loss, while belief
In freedom, equality, humanity are cut off by the knife.

©️ 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

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Accolade for my poem, Stealthy Labyrinth

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Extraordinary poem, Malak, superb! Delicious creative allieration, ingenious rhymes in a sonnet, powerful extended metaphor, and a profound uplifting theme. I read this poem multiple times finding new treasures each time. One line that struck and moved me was, “Where negativity was the succor.” That’s deeply authentic.

By Linda Powers O’Dell

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Stealthy Labyrinth

A Labyrinth of life and living
Flies in files with the passing minutes,
Striving in sleaves of loss’ imprints
Are appropriate in their perfecting

Flight that they can’t be bound.
Imprisoned by imposed labels, categories,
Races, and groups that astound
In their versatility, but not humanities.

I’ve lived in this labyrinth of life,
Where negativity was the succor
Given by some of my entourage, that’s rife
With jealousy,  bias, and is a bereaver.

They suck out the optimism and
Joy of life out of each stupendous second,
That you fear drowning in the labyrinth
Of fiery destruction that steals your breath.

Instead,  let the minutia of the labyrinth
Turn into an adventurous life in stealth.

   ©️ 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

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Diploma for my poem, Oh Dove

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Oh Dove

Oh ye peaceful dove,
Soar into freedom’s embrace,
Share your innocence and grace,
Share beauty that one can’t replace,

Hover over those whose hope:
Has perished in a land of explosives,
Has disintegrated with skin that dissolves
From chemicals that strain lives

With loss that’s Insurmountable,
While death is the sea they wade
In, suffering is the breath that’s made
Of toxins that suffocate, all have laid

A foundation for hopelessness.
Yet, the dove, still, waves its banner
Of aspirations for a future greater
Than the sum of deadly crater

That entombs the unbeliever
Who’s given up a future plan
He can not imagine in the peril that glean
A harvest of emptiness when life’s élan

Is a more powerful force of
Life alongside the price of a knife.

©️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

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2 of My poems will be featured for an anthology for Gaza

The poems that are included are:

Two Years of Death

Breathe Through The Blood

ENOUGH

When the Anthology comes out, I’ll keep you posted with links. There are already approximately 70 poets included in the list of poets being published.

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

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Review and accolade for my poem, My Love

Every time I receive a review,  I feel like a lottery winner. It’s empowering and highly  inspiring.  Thank you, guys, for your comments.

My Love

If “Love opens the most impossible gates;” and
“Love is the gate to all the secrets of the universe.”
Then, love is all powerful, eternal, rebellious, never bland,
But compassionate promise In a universe

Filled with dissent, competition, a love of money,
And sin. I give thanks that my love, husband,
Is my rock, my motivator, and one key
To my writing that’s unwavering and always holds my hand.

My love is there for the difficult decisions,
Guidance and friend to our children,
Has sleepless nights when they’re in positions
Of upheaval that require strategic precision.

For me, he is my star in a dark night,
The shoulder I cry into when life’s unbearable
Losses enrobe my heart in darkness, as he helps me fight
The devouring abyss making it acceptable.
As my shadow sits on the bench, alone,
My eyes mist like dew drops covering
The wet grass, as memories flood, gone,
The world has taken this love and kept living.

©️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

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Review for my poem,  My Love

My Love

If “Love opens the most impossible gates;” and
“Love is the gate to all the secrets of the universe.”
Then, love is all powerful, eternal, rebellious, never bland,
But compassionate promise In a universe

Filled with dissent, competition, a love of money,
And sin. I give thanks that my love, husband,
Is my rock, my motivator, and one key
To my writing that’s unwavering and always holds my hand.

My love is there for the difficult decisions,
Guidance and friend to our children,
Has sleepless nights when they’re in positions
Of upheaval that require strategic precision.

For me, he is my star in a dark night,
The shoulder I cry into when life’s unbearable
Losses enrobe my heart in darkness, as he helps me fight
The devouring abyss making it acceptable.
As my shadow sits on the bench, alone,
My eyes mist like dew drops covering
The wet grass, as memories flood, gone,
The world has taken this love and kept living.


©️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

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Diploma Certificate for my poem, My Love

Thank you,  administrators,  for the honor and your hard work.

My Love

If “Love opens the most impossible gates;” and
“Love is the gate to all the secrets of the universe.”
Then, love is all powerful, eternal, rebellious, never bland,
But compassionate promise In a universe

Filled with dissent, competition, a love of money,
And sin. I give thanks that my love, husband,
Is my rock, my motivator, and one key
To my writing that’s unwavering and always holds my hand.

My love is there for the difficult decisions,
Guidance and friend to our children,
Has sleepless nights when they’re in positions
Of upheaval that require strategic precision.

For me, he is my star in a dark night,
The shoulder I cry into when life’s unbearable
Losses enrobe my heart in darkness, as he helps me fight
The devouring abyss making it acceptable.
As my shadow sits on the bench, alone,
My eyes mist like dew drops covering
The wet grass, as memories flood, gone,
The world has taken this love and kept living.


©️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