Poetry for Change
What an honor to be included in the OOPT magazine, in Morocco. Being in the first print version of magazine is such an honor.
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 great honor to have been chosen for this accolade. Thank you administrators!
Wealth of Spirit
Money comes and goes,
Wealth, horded, loses its value,
But strength of character throws
Its power behind the breadth you
Wish to achieve, simply by staying
True to your upbringing’s teaching,
In which the force of discipline resounds
In actions reflecting all that bonds:
Faith, compassion, behavior,
Wisdom, and spiritual striver
Who wish enlightenment as a converter
Of ethics that need discipline as a recorder.
©️ 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 honor 🎖
The Cycle of Life
Life, birth, wedding, and death
Are the closed cycle of life’s
Unending strive to surmount its stresses.
The closed circle cycles in an infinite loop
Starting with an infant, needing an endless group
To help with the raising of those so dependent.
Youth and the need for friendship and peers
Is the first of many changes rolling fears
Into those struggling with new responsibilities.
Adults have to balance the circles
Of friends, family, spouse, collegues, and babes
Creating an equilibrium that feeds their joy’s
Rather than their emptiness, loneliness.
Seniors bend and flex back into a state
Of infancy, dependency, and put a stake
In what they perceive as the end, death.
But is death an end or a start?
Does the cycle end?
Or is it perpetuated in a new bend
That begins after one’s end?
What comes first: the beginning or the ending
The egg or the chicken, the mother or child?
Where does it all really end?
©️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 for the accolade for my poetic works. I highly appreciate the hard work you put in.
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 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
Thank you, Marie, for the honor you’ve placed on my writing.
Masked Window
Dressed in her ivory maskerade ballgown,
Her golden mask, sitting holding a frown,
Wondering carelessly why their return
Was before the clock struck one.
On the window seat, she sits, draped
In her creamy embroidery locked
In wonder, as she gazes through the darkened
Sky lit by a brilliant moon and stars, dangled
In clusters, creating images and a haze
Of moving light surrounding the blaze
Of hope and wonder that are cause
For our betterment and flays the craze
Of depression’s loneliness that she
Left behind, as the music was too loud a bee,
She stirs from her pose of repose to see
And appreciate the beauty and comfort that be
Her succor as she contemplates
The dichotomy of a world at wars
While the other lives freely and creates
Memories, while the other loses or dies.
©️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
Acrostic
H eavenly healing properties live
A vidly throughout your
P roperty, propagating instantly,
P aving the way for health that’s declining
Y early. The land we’re here to protect
M oves into its shrinking measure,
O penly resisting the occupier, Man, heedless of
T he destructive power
H e possesses over the beauty’s
E ternal flame of rejuvenation
R arely given the time to heal
E ven when it’s imperative for farmers’
A rid harvests that feed none,
R everently spewing it’s need for
T he people to care for the land’s
H aloed ground that quenches hunger,
D riving Man into thirst for fire,
A ir, water, seeds’ harvest in a nest that’s
Y et to be bound in his ability not to survive alone.
©️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
Poetry for Change 