I’m so honored to have been chosen from among around 500 applicants to be featured in this Anthology! What’s even better is that all profits from the book go to helping eliminate child hunger, and this book is dedicated to children in Gaza.
I’d recommend you all buy it if for no other reason than to promote healthier children lives.
Thank you, Matt Elmore, for insisting that I apply. Your support means a lot to me.
I’ll inform you of the date the Anthology comes out at and the Kindle version that’ll be available.
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 poem, Life Captured, is reviewed by a highly respected poet, Matt Elmore. He’s a poet, author, and group administrator for the Invisible Poets on Facebook and much more. The prompt is of writing a metonym poem. I’d written this a few years ago during a difficult time in my life. I hope you can identify the metonym:
Life Captured
Looking at life through the aperture of a lens Narrows your vision to only what it presents, Everything else is eliminated, erased. What happens to that backdrop that disappeared? Is your memory faulty, that it too evaporates it? Or is your memory vibrant enough to retain it? Or would you prefer to eradicate it?
There are times in life where having a limited View of an event can alter its meaning, and Dissipate its importance into nothing, For its effect on you, casual at best. Reliving Them is unremarkable, dispensable, and dreary Creating unnecessary despair when life is for living.
Other times when a complete view is compulsory For understanding and acting favorably. At such times, no minute detail is unnecessary, For they all create a holistic picture of the unsavory Events that play out in movie format, brilliantly Vivid in its details, sounds, smells, and actionably.
The scenes are relentless in their motions As they unveil their worthiness to us As the aperture of life is just a version Of all that’s around us, filming, storing, Even deleting or omitting the undeserving, Challenging the lies or liars, stating only verity, flying!!!!
Malak Kalmoni Chehab
Exert from my poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, that’s available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Poetry for Change 