Mutilation – Poetry for Change

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

Review and accolade for my poem, Say Farewell

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab So many awful things to leave behind, amen! Your repetition of Farewell to these losses, traumas and horrors is both powerful and poignant. You portray them with amazing images and intriguing rhymes. I like how you alter your repetition to speak to hope for change and harmony. Wonderful poem, bravo!! 👏

By: Linda Powers O’Dell

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Say Farewell

Farewell I say
To another year, slipping
Into yesterday in a blink eying
The world through a backward lense to play

Farewell I say
To war that followed into genocide
Where white phosphorus is a guide
To death that’ll pay and say:

Farewell I say
To colonizers whose dominance
Is nothing but a posturing stance
That rides a high till it lands in grey

Farewell I say
To the muck of horrors that movies
Would fear to display as crazies,
For, to them I lay

My farewell to say:
Leave the people to their freedom
Don’t subjugate, ruin, destroy as you come
To steal resources under cover of pray,

So, say farewell to the grey
Quagmire of losses, trauma that sway
In harmony with nature creating a stray
Wind of change that’ll cross oceans and pray …

©️ 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