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.
Thank you so much for sending your bio and photograph. I truly appreciate it.
I have enjoyed reading your poetry and am honored to include your work in the anthology. Your poems offer both beauty and depth, and I believe they will resonate with many readers. I was especially moved by the themes of family, memory, resilience, and the bonds that shape our lives.
Thank you also for sharing a little of your personal journey. The experiences you describe have undoubtedly shaped a unique and meaningful voice, and I am grateful that you chose to share it with this collection.
Your photograph is lovely, and I look forward to presenting your work with the care and respect it deserves.
Thank you again for your participation and trust. I am delighted to have you as part of this anthology.
With warm regards,
Julie Miles
Editor, Still Waters Anthologies
I’m excited for this new development, and I will keep you all posted as to when it comes out!
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.
I’m honored to have 3 of my poems published in Wheelsong Poetry Anthology 8. Each poem has a different themes using different poetic forms to enhance the message i want to forward.
I implore anyone who wishes to give back to society to buy a copy as all profits olfrom the Anthology go to the charity to help hungry children worldwide.
Below are exerts of my poems that are published just to wet your appetites for more ….
Ghouls of War
Moguls of war, ghouls that store, Store away resources for a grey, Grey day when needs are felt, Felt in empty stomachs covered, Covered by a rock to stave, Stave the incessant hunger pains, Pains that fog the functioning brain, Brain needing nutrients, Nutrients absent in war torn homes, …
Two Way Street
I lay in a fetal position, my head Cushioned by his heart, in a beat And rhythm that puts me to sleep, a feat That takes time, trust, comfort instead
Of weariness, worry that stress, I lay my head on his chest, dreaming Dreams of innocence that fled, tears streaming For losses galore, knowing he’s my vest that’ll press …
Poetic Castle
Poetry is my castle where every Room’s walls are painted in my poetry The building itself is antiquated in poverty, But each chamber is filled with rhymes eternally …
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 Thanks for introducing this intriguing new Hungarian poetic form, Malak. Clever use of assonance and consonance in the first three lines that mirrors the lengthening lines, (hon, honey, hopeful,) and then throughout, (lone, loving, tough, lonely.) Excellent contrast of “loving” and “lonely” in a if-you- have-to-make-a-choice scenario. By, Linda Powers O’Dell
APEVA Love
Hon Honey Hopeful, lone Loving is tough Better than lonely
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Thanks for introducing this intriguing new Hungarian poetic form, Malak. Clever use of assonance and consonance in the first three lines that mirrors the lengthening lines, (hon, honey, hopeful,) and then throughout, (lone, loving, tough, lonely.) Excellent contrast of “loving” and “lonely” in a if-you- have-to-make-a-choice scenario. By Linda Powers O’Dell
APEVA Love
Hon Honey Hopeful, lone Loving is tough Better than lonely.
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 Excellent use of hypophora, Malak! You use profound questions to focus attention on the nature of home and the uncertainty of the future. Your amazing and touching personal narrative is so poignant and adds great beauty to this poem. Your deep experience justifies your admonition, “Embrace the joy you’re given,/For tomorrow may bring hell or heaven.” Superb poem!! By Linda Powers O’Dell
Home?
Where is home? What is home?
These questions circle Ceaselessly and kindle
The quest for answers for: Where and what is home for?
I’ve immigrated to three Continents searching for thee.
Why do you hide from me? Why do you flee and oblige me
To search you out in lands gone mad? How is that fair on a child who feels bad?
From the tropics, to the Mediterranean, To North America, in search of what you mean.
The child in me Misses the simplicity of love,
Laughter that is innate, But shaken with wars and fate,
That take away all joy and faith In a moment of stolen breath.
Embrace the joy you’re given, For tomorrow may bring hell or heaven.
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.
Orphaned children of war, Are hungry for peace that’ll crease Away the trauma that resides, never sees The light after wounds, amputations that are core
To surviving the war. As children Whose childhood was decimated By loss, parents, safety, laughter, loved, Replaced by uncertainty, confusion, a burden
To those who survived with them, unable To function in a world where war Is the norm, peace is a broken contract far From the ideals of humanity that are incomparable.
Wars are nothing but a destruction of humanity Loss of kindness, sympathy and love Domination of a power over the world Killings of many innocent women and children
Many physical scars are there But psychological scars will never be decreased It will destroy the innocence of children Who are the victims of wars
Orphans of wars Become victims of permanent fear and anxiety Their sufferings are equal to God’s sufferings Their pain means a lot.
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.
A dirty stuffed white bear Thrown, thrown with the blue Garbage bags haphazardly bare The signature of disowning the few
Possessions that have lived Through childhood’s changes As growing is synonymous to dispossessed Of imagination’s flow in ages
Where a bear’s innocent eyes Bare witness to catastrophic Events, from divorce, to cries Of violence, to bombs that are cathartic
In their release of pent up emotions That only the innocent bear perceives And gives succor where hidden sensations Are incubated within this cuddly stuffies
Innocently hidden for years Before the child feels strong enough To survive without his secret prayers’ Confidant who seems to be rough
Around the edges, but still soft To the touch as he imparts comfort In the imprisoned loft Where tears poores out in the fort
Of his making, where secrets Are hidden, trauma rises, pain Transmute into rivers of bloody tests Overcome with faith, ethics enliven
The soul with power Suffusing limbs, heart To be stronger And live longer, healthier.
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.
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Bravo for taking on such a challenging form, Malak! This poem is wonderfully, deeply philosophical and psychological. You valorize those “Tumultuous wars within that try to/Eradicate despair’s darkest emptiness,” the struggles of hope that refuse to give in to villainy and the void. Powerful poem!! By Linda Powers O’Dell
Double Acrostic Existential Void
E xtenuating circumstances Vie to the X ysti to try and rest Omitting I ntentionality of an existental voId S ublimating intensions of Destructively T umultuous wars within that try to E radicate despair’s darkest emptiness, N ever allowing it to overflow with T he love, faith needed to defy Villany I nterminable in its need to destrOy A stronomical strength that Intensifies L iving in the light of hope, never Denouncing the void.
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 