Poetry for Change
Those poems are featured in the Petal Projections Magazine, and they are an observer’s view of events of the wars around us.
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
Breathe Through The Blood
I’m drowning in blood,
Blood of families blown asunder,
Asunder. Limbs and heads loll,
Loll, broken, decapitated, bloody,
Bloody from arteries leaking,
Leaking from wounds, impossible,
Impossible to tend, as hospitals,
Hospitals have lost the ability to heal,
Heal thousands of extreme wounds,
Wounds teaching ‘How to breathe,
Breathe under water’ and blood, swim freely,
Freely through the morass of corpses,
Corpses dismembered in bombs,
Bombs used to spread fear,
Fear for the need to survive,
Survive another day of massacres,
Massacres in refugee camps,
Camps made of flimsy tents,
Tents made of canvas easily destroyed,
Destroyed by a breeze, flammable with fire,
Fire that burns all to smithereens.,
Smithereens and shards of pagers,
Pagers and phones turned to bombs,
Bombs that made it necessary to remove,
Remove patients’ eyes, that traumatized,
Traumatized surgeons whose job,
Job is to help their patients survive,
Survive, yes, but with which abilities?
©️ 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
A week out of a Sci-Fi movie has been playing on our TV screens, where pagers and communication devices explode at random places: grocery stores, homes, shops, and more. According to a surgeon in Beirut, she has had to remove eyes surgically for more people than she could count. This has traumatized not only her but also the victims whose lives are now altered completely. They have to relearn how to be a part of society with a great handicap. The horror doesn’t end there, though, it continues with the bombardment of Beirut, and the majority of the victims are children.
The irony is that the attacker has the ability to target an exact place, but they chose not to, rather, going for maximum destruction, as usual.
It’s interesting that it has taken the world a year of outright murder, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and outright destruction for it to start responding to the attacks.
The greatest irony is that the 21rst is the International Day for Peace, and while that is on the world calendar for things needed to be achieved, people are being murdered without facing the consequences of their actions.
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 always wondrously amazed that my work is being honored by fellow poets.
I’ll apologize to my readers or followers for the darkness of the themes that I’m writing about in the recent months, but they are my outlet for past and present visual trauma of war.
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
Acrostic
Thankful for all I have, and never
Hate others for having more.
Another year and my appreciation grows
Never stopping its exponential climb.
Kneeling before GOD, the only,
Serving one another the way
GOD commanded us to be brothers,
Including love of all, while
Vying for HIS benevolence as we
Inquire about the reasoning for events
Glorifying death, murder, and immorality.
©️Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
“I, a bird from a confined prison, sings for liberation because of the death of liberty.” Mayyu Hamim
When the power of the pen is stronger than the image it represents, people start accepting their confined prison as their only reality. However, when a people have been confined for decades, their only recourse is no longer humanity’s humanitarian help, but rather a spiritual one, where they rely on justice in the afterlife instead of that of politicians.
For all those who’ve been murdered unnecessarily in Congo, Somalia, Palestine, Bosnia/ Herzegovina, India, Rohinga, and many more, our hearts are bleeding with yours. Plus, if my only contribution is a word, poem, or comment here or there, excuse my powerlessness in the face of global economies that rule our world.
Author of Perfectly Flawed poetry for change
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Poetry for Change 