Poetry for Change
I’m honored to have my poem, Lone Beauty, published in Literary Cocktail Magazine. It’s available on Amazon and Kindle, Issue 3, volume I.
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
What TV shows did you watch as a kid?
As a teen, I enjoyed the Cosby Show, as it represented North American society and its critique through character interactions. The fact that I was an immigrant and needed to learn how families functioned in this region so I could better integrate in a society that felt strange to me. A few years later,I became interested in how law is perceived and applied in courts, so Perry Mason.
However, as I became an adult, I learned that these shows were to promote a particular ideology, rather than represent actual society. I was duly disappointed with that realization.
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, administrators, for the accolade for my poem:
Unity’s Cadence
The world is in chaos
Its violence coalesces into pathos
For all those affected by such loss.
My internal confusion fuses
With the world’s chaos and turns the hues
Of my root, heart, throat, and other chakras
Into an amalgam, merging
Needs, internal, external brewing
In a cauldron where spiritual testing
Is composed of intrinsic harmony
That binds all in a flow that’s perfectly
Embued in a oneness connecting flawlessly,
Letting each part of you impose
Its problems, asking for help that flows
From one part to another like waves, that glows
In the darkest nights with a brilliance
Only outshone by the sun’s variance
In power to reach all in a cadence
That leaves warmth in all unity.
©️ 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
Thank you administrators for the hard work you put in the prompts and judging our work. You’re highly appreciated 👏
Unity
How do we unite when we’re so different?
We might differ but beneath, we’ve got
The same biology, red blood, emotions whose lot
Is to find similarities to bridge
Stereotypes, opinions, religion, race, that judge
Without logic or understanding, rather pledge
Disunity, division, as diversity of aims
That ramify and highlight disparity that comes
More easily then finding commonality in times
When a unified community, humanity
Means peace, while division means war, ably
Turning a pretty penny as colizers’ ability
To exploit the subjugated through
Creating enmity where none could throw
Away their misplaced Stereotypes that bow
To the reign of weapons
Whose response is murder that dons
The crown of power flown in tons
Of decisive death combatted
Only by understanding of diversity united.
©️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
Great thanks to the administrators whose hard work is always appreciated. I’m honored they’ve chosen to present me with this accolade.
Wormhole
As the Wormhole siphones time,
It’s recycled and sent down for a prime
New look at what’s been done, as lime
Is sour and requires revisiting
Actions whose regret is culminating
In despair’s depression, hindering
All positive momentum. Stagnation
Halts your progress into a quagmire of rejection
Of all esthetics of developing a projection
Of change that surmounts captivating
Your potential, reigning in its joy, sunning,
Airing your problems, giving them wings, soaring
Into the azure skyline with birds, whose
Dire need for flight mirrors our soul’s
Urgent desire to relieve its cumbersome blows
Into a sea permitting you to see
The pivotal cacophony that clamors, like the bee
Buzzing to flee from the constraints that pee
On freedom’s liberating rebellion, key
To change and stomping on the caged monkey,
Man, who plays the ape to integrate into the sea.
©️ 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
At the old Souk and old port where the architecture reflects the Lebanese history. The city is called, Tripoli, due to the 3 doors of entry to the city. The old ports history is filled with different civilizations, archeological artifacts, buildings that represent the marriage of cultures, and blending of religions into a united people.
There are three Souks: gold, clothing, and copper that showcase the melding of history and modernity. Their beauty lies in their preservation and continued upkeep.
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
PEOPLE
Acrostic
P eople of color, native whose vigor
E nlightened the colonizer on ways to
O verpower the climate, use nature’s gifts
P opulate using a balance of needs and protecting
L everaging knowledge, honesty, innocence,
E xcluding ethnic cleansing of a native’s peoples.
©️ 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
Woman’ Loss
She stands with her bent leg on the wall,
Her formfitting white dress flows and fall
Below her knees, showing a slither of thigh
As she lays back on the white washed wall,
Her black hair coiffed over her shoulder,
As elegant as you please, with sunglasses, reflecter
Of the world, but a mask for her pain,
As a straw hat dangles from tips of finger,
She looks into the sky, wondering
If he’s watching and judging
Her actions after his loss,
Living a life without his supporting
Embrace, as she holds the tears,
Never giving them free reign, she bares
Her soul into her dark glasses and prays
For patience from the One above, and cries.
©️ 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
Musical Soul
Her head is always up in space
Where music flows like a water bow,
It comes and goes in a crescendo
That takes a dip into a diminuendo
In a homophony of sounds whose grace
Imbues the soul with a legato
Using a metronome to keep time
For all octaves of musicality as if a crime
Takes place if you don’t ascend with the rhythm
Of vibrato that reaches within the soul in tempo
With moods that are impossible
To tone down into a flaming
Simmer, unchanging while honoring
A person’s vivace through notes, singing
Through the soul to change the impossible.
©️ 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
I’m highly honored that my quote on ‘dejà vu’ got a certificate on E- Zine Connect.
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
