Poetry for Change
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Thanks for introducing this intriguing new Hungarian poetic form, Malak. Clever use of assonance and consonance in the first three lines that mirrors the lengthening lines, (hon, honey, hopeful,) and then throughout, (lone, loving, tough, lonely.) Excellent contrast of “loving” and “lonely” in a if-you-
have-to-make-a-choice scenario. By, Linda Powers O’Dell
APEVA
Love
Hon
Honey
Hopeful, lone
Loving is tough
Better than lonely
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Bouquet’s Journey
She stands in an ethereal
Ivory, off the shoulder, flowy
Silver dress, her golden tresses curly
Over her bare back, as her bouquet ball
Of peachy-white, highlited
By the green leaves in symmetry
With the forest that surrounds her body
As she stands on the wooden bridged
Crossing over an ocean of memory
Flowing like water, never boxed,
Contained, but freely bled
Its tears of trauma into the depth of the watery
Abyss, where, where trauma’s happiness
Is the brightest pearl, hidden, hidden
In the depths without succor, forgotten?
Never, never! Faced with success
In riding the rippling waves of distress
That congregate in a single drop
Of life saving H²O, quenching a pop
Of bubbly bursts, like stars that press
Their light over the fallen bouquet
With it falls memories
Of a life lived together, families
Grew learning the art of parfait.
©️ 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 honor and your hard work.
Memories, Memory
Memories, memories of childhood
Long gone, come back, come
Let’s play a song, a game,
Let innocence flow like a flood
Throw, throw away taught stereotypes,
Enjoy the games with all blood
Types, mixed races, all are kids who prod
One another regardless of religious hypes.
Oh to be so free as a child’s kite
No cares about evil, pedophile,
Predators, child abusers, all file
Into a chest locked away in a fight
To stay bright with joy, unmindfull
Of obstructions to laughter’s song
That glides into deadened hearts long
For beauty to brighten the awful
Despair of a dutiful social being
Whose memories of childhood
Spring with cheer, geer, games bold
In their actions for social strictures having
Not been forged, so pushing borders
Is the name of the greatest game
Of childhood’s frame
Where laughter, fun are all starters.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab
Canada
Childhood memories shine like golden daffodils
Innocence shines under the sun’s warmth
Where bees play hide and seek
Amongst gay, laughter and cheerfulness
Children are like free kites
Where in clouds they smile
Their swings take them to high sky
Teach them to fly like a bird
Memories of childhood are like coloured rainbow
Where each colour belongs to each memory
Reflecting a soothing effect
Like dew drops at dawn on each branch
Memories reflect fear of ghosts and demons
Heart full of fear and anxieties at darkness
Joy, happiness, jovial harmony at each festivity
When vivid colourful threads bring us together
Childhood carelessness has faded away soon
From reality it has just come to a memory
Only we can enjoy its residue
The residue that will inspire us till death
The most precious time is childhood itself
The most worthy is its characteristic, innocence
Where guile never can interrupt
Where God can reside alone
©️®️ Debashrita Basu
India
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
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Thanks for introducing this intriguing new Hungarian poetic form, Malak. Clever use of assonance and consonance in the first three lines that mirrors the lengthening lines, (hon, honey, hopeful,) and then throughout, (lone, loving, tough, lonely.) Excellent contrast of “loving” and “lonely” in a if-you-
have-to-make-a-choice scenario. By Linda Powers O’Dell
APEVA
Love
Hon
Honey
Hopeful, lone
Loving is tough
Better than lonely.
©️ 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 honor and your hard work.
Lose not End
To lose or not to lose,
That is the question that’s not a ruse.
Failing to achieve your goals
Can be a piercing knife to souls
That fall into depression if their
Goals are delayed or failed, their flair
Is indomitable in its will to overcome obstacles
That bend your will, but it’s never broken or stills.
Your fight isn’t external, community, rank,
No, it’s within, a fight to be better, never a skank
Who is derogatory to those weaker,
More vulnerable than you. Be braver
An instigator of change that starts
With accepting that failures are not sins,
But rather a new beginning
To achieve a new ending.
©️ 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
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab “Silence is silently golden” is wonderful tmesis, Malak. This revision emphasizes how the benefits of silence are also silent. Congratulations on such a complex, profound poem. Ambition is a tricky thing. Without it how can we progress? But do we want to live hounded for a few moments of elevation? Should feelings of inferiority be our motivation for defying destiny? To fill the blackish emptiness, to escape masochistic scorching pursuits, requires more than polish. To sit alone is silence may be the ultimate solace. Powerful, impressive poem with awesome tempo and rhymes! By, Linda Powers O’Dell
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Fate Follows Slowly
Silence is silently golden and craves
Quiet to fulfill its quiet role
Where falling for the coal
That burns your soul and paves
The way to hounding healing hell
That elevates your status momentarily,
There’s a scorching that’s heavenly
For your masochistic tendencies that fell
From the mouth of a demeaning,
Enraged inferiority demanding
Solace with like crazed minded souls fleeing
The impossible: Karma, fate, destiny crawling
At its slow pace right behind
Your extravagant polish
That hides an emptiness that’s blackish
And finds comrades that comfort in kind.
©️ 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
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab “Silence is silently golden” is wonderful tmesis, Malak. This revision emphasizes how the benefits of silence are also silent. Congratulations on such a complex, profound poem. Ambition is a tricky thing. Without it how can we progress? But do we want to live hounded for a few moments of elevation? Should feelings of inferiority be our motivation for defying destiny? To fill the blackish emptiness, to escape masochistic scorching pursuits, requires more than polish. To sit alone is silence may be the ultimate solace. Powerful, impressive poem with awesome tempo and rhymes! By, Linda Powers O’Dell
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Fate Follows Slowly
Silence is silently golden and craves
Quiet to fulfill its quiet role
Where falling for the coal
That burns your soul and paves
The way to hounding healing hell
That elevates your status momentarily,
There’s a scorching that’s heavenly
For your masochistic tendencies that fell
From the mouth of a demeaning,
Enraged inferiority demanding
Solace with like crazed minded souls fleeing
The impossible: Karma, fate, destiny crawling
At its slow pace right behind
Your extravagant polish
That hides an emptiness that’s blackish
And finds comrades that comfort in kind.
©️ 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
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab A powerful antiwar protest poem, Malak! The injustice, the B.S, the crimes of petty wars are truly horrifying; you make us feel them to our core. You’ve created an intriguing version of the Pythagorean Triple, Malak. This is how poetry evolves, through innovation on existing forms. By Linda Powers O’Dell
Replaced
Petty wars
Kill victims,
Genders, trill
Their song of death
Injustice wraps
Noose, overkill
Around kin who’s fam
Stuggles covered, and
Erased to hide crimes
Under the B.S. they trill,
Singing a song, oppress
Natives replaced: killers …
©️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.
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Fear of Judgement
I’ve written you so many letters,
Letters that have gathered dust,
Dust in their crammed drawer,
Drawer that holds my secrets, a protector,
Protector against prying eyes,
Eyes whose judgements is impolite,
Impolite, demeaning comments,
Comments that devastate one’s self- esteem,
Esteem you wish to share,
Share its fruitful bliss, yet,
Yet, you fear a negative reaction,
Reaction that leaves you bare,
Bare to vulnerability of being offensive,
Offensive by stating the truth,
Truth that breaks Hearts,
Hearts that need protection,
Protection from those nearest who,
Who with a word demolish what you’ve,
You’ve build with a measly word.
©️ 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 honor and your hard work.
Night Write
She sits under the tree’s shadow
At night, a cover for life that prevails
Against predators whose perils
For the unsuspecting prey follow
As Lambs to the slaughter, while
She writes the story of dreams
Fluttering in a utopia that crams
Within its doors all whose file
Of rebellion has been dedicated
To uprooting the destroyer,
Colonizer, resources thief, conquerer
Of those weaker, while her plumed
Pen discovers their weaknesses
Annihilating their defenses
While she uses
Her words of equality fearless of consequences.
©️ 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 