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Review and Gold Certificate for my collaborative poem with Vikas Arora,

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab
Vikas Arora
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​Yes! The collaborative poem connects with the theme of light and shadow.
​Analysis of the Poem
​The poem directly addresses the theme of light and shadow both literally and figuratively. It uses the contrast to explore concepts like creation, balance, emotion, and human nature. Here is a breakdown of how the poem connects to the theme:
​Creation and Balance: The first stanza uses the “shadows” as the origin of creation, with beauty being born “into light.” This sets up the idea that light and dark aren’t just opposites, but are intertwined and necessary for a balanced whole.
​Metaphor for Emotions: The poem extends the metaphor to human experience, comparing “pathos” (suffering, emotion) and “richness of soul” to opposing sides of a coin. This parallels the relationship between light and shadow, suggesting that both are essential parts of our inner world.
​Literal and Figurative Light Sources: The poem mentions the sun and moon as literal sources of light and shadow, but also gives them metaphorical roles. The sun’s “ablutions” and the moon’s “passions” are presented as forces that “coincide in stabilizing” the world. This reinforces the idea of balance between contrasting elements.
​The Unavoidable Shadow: The second poem brings in the personal, unavoidable nature of a shadow. The line, “Wherever you may go your shadow stays with you,” emphasizes that our “shadow” or darker side is an intrinsic part of us, a constant companion. This suggests that we cannot escape the duality of light and dark within ourselves.
​The poem consistently uses the duality of light and shadow to represent other opposing concepts like chaos and order, emotion and soul, and the divine and the mundane. The recurring idea is that these forces are not meant to be separated but exist in a state of interdependence, contributing to a harmonious or “mellow” whole.

👌Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful collaborative poem.
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Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Collaborative poem
Malak Kalmoni Chehab & Drvikas Arora
Canada                                    India
Theme: Light and shadow

Within the shadows, creation came from chaos
A reign out of which beauty was born
Into light, where balance isn’t a horn
That divides but embraces the two sides, pathos

And richness of soul, are opposing
Sides of the same coin of emotions,
Equipoised similarly to sun’s ablutions
And the moon’s passions coincide in stabilizing

A world where chos reigns and order
Is an afterthought for the selfish
Who are ruled by egos, pridefulness that dish
Out inequality destroying balance of the creator.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
Drvikas Arora India
Light and shadow
Light and shadow are two sides of the same coin they make us realise that God is divine
The sun disburses energy and light while the moon spreads bliss and blight
The dawn heralds the arrival of the sun while the dark gleams because of the moon
The shadows of the sun and moon may vary and may be of different size the god has bestowed upon us his prize
Wherever you may go your shadow stays with you whatever else may leave you your shadow stays with you
The light and shadow make our mother earth mellow

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

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Certificate of Achievement for my poem, Women’s Wars

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Women’s Wars

Wars have always been about expansion,
Glorifying the ‘self’, stealing resources,
Empowering through the subjugation
Of the ‘other’ by binary opposition that courses
Through blood, and ‘elevates’ their superiority to deity.

From the Silk Road, to the Spice Road,
To the Swez Canal, White Sea, Ben Gurion,
All show the need for exclusivity for the broad
Perception of ‘Civilizing’. What a crock gone
Down the clock into eternal sleep. Happy.

For each critical endeavor, conquest,
Women rally the people, organize,
Fight, rebel, strive to keep morale, at best,
Alive within the hearts of people to strategize
Survival and the compulsion to resist oppression.

As the flowers bloom, so does the woman’s
Need to resist being lumped in a category
That she knows she doesn’t belongs
To, but rather asserts her judicial equality
In a society that’s still a patriarchy.

Her freedom, imposed by GOD,
Is taken away by men  of power
Who fear her rejuvenating strength that plod
Without thought to health or happiness,  yet a teacher
Of infinite power that blends, supports, those weaker.

©️ 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

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Award of Excellence for my poem, Recalcitrant Vision

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Recalcitrant Vision

All art is a view of life perceived
Through the eye of the artist who
Interprets his emotional response through
The media of art he drew and traveled
Into his world of choice where illusion,
Pink tinted glasses, or blackened ones, are a division

Only the artist can create within the piece
Of art that he sees in his mind’s eye,
Reproduces it, and there’s always the fly
That’s never as exact as the vision, a place

Where flexibility,  imagination run rampant
But can be recreated perfectly,
So the artist’s interpretation of life’s study
Is always in perfidy that’s recalcitrant.

©️ 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

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Diploma for my poem, HIS Palm’s Balance

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HIS Palm’s Balance

HIS palm holds our world in balance
Where chaos and order reign supreme,
Supreme storms, floods, Famine whose
Supreme effects on mankind manifest,
Manifest destruction of balance,
Manifest evil’s depravity winning,
Winning the race of immoral choices,
Winning the Nobel Prize for lies,
Lies that people use to manipulate,
Lies that use to demean self,
Self that wonders, confused as to their identity,
Self where Ego’s Vanity needs its fans,
Fans that blow winds and storms,
Fans that fan fires from thunder storm,
Storm of nature whose advant crows Its anger,
Storm within, a fight over morals and envy,
Envy for what others have,
Envy that drives a wedge between family
Family that falters as faith falls,
Family that stands by you when all fails,
Fails to survive the storm,
Fails to believe and overcome the storm.

©️ 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

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Certificate of Achievement for my poem, Clown Mask

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Clown Mask

Of all the social masks I wear,
My favorite is that of the clown.
It’s cheery colors hide the circles under
My eyes, the blood red cheeks are a gown

For covering blotchy skin from bouts
Of crying concealed in my lonely room,
Where the walls are party to the clouts
Of invisible pressures well sheathed in a bloom

Of colors, passionate deadly red,
That’s double edged in giving me
My highs and lows, happy and sad,
While white’s my hope for peace that came

In the relatively darkened home,
Knocked lightly, politely asking permission
For entry. It entreats me
To join the calm within the raven compassion

Of a heart needing an outlet to its
Pent up frustrations, disillusionments,
Disappointments, and loss’s gots
Its hold on the vice of hate’s

Antonym requiring a face lifted
Into a mask of joy pierced by the gift
Of faith, love, and will to be lightened
By their brilliance overcoming the dead lift.

©️ 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.

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Certificate of Achievement for my poem, Clown Mask

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Clown Mask

Of all the social masks I wear,
My favorite is that of the clown.
It’s cheery colors hide the circles under
My eyes, the blood red cheeks are a gown

For covering blotchy skin from bouts
Of crying concealed in my lonely room,
Where the walls are party to the clouts
Of invisible pressures well sheathed in a bloom

Of colors, passionate deadly red,
That’s double edged in giving me
My highs and lows, happy and sad,
While white’s my hope for peace that came

In the relatively darkened home,
Knocked lightly, politely asking permission
For entry. It entreats me
To join the calm within the raven compassion

Of a heart needing an outlet to its
Pent up frustrations, disillusionments,
Disappointments, and loss’s gots
Its hold on the vice of hate’s

Antonym requiring a face lifted
Into a mask of joy pierced by the gift
Of faith, love, and will to be lightened
By their brilliance overcoming the dead lift.

©️ 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.

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Certificate of Achievement for my  poem, Give and Steal

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Give and Steal

With one hand, they give out arms
To propagate war, a war that divides
Brothers, using the old, well proven
Adage of ‘Divide and Conquer’, unbidden

The conqueror strives to reduce
The power of the people through the curse
Of avarice and the need to wield
Dominion  over others in an open field

Where, when the warring parties
Are busy murdering each other, their advocators
Pillage Africa, South Asia and America, all resources
Are tied up under their rule, while others dies:

Their wealth increases exponentially,
Their lies and division become award worthy,
For they manipulate facts to their advantage, cruelty
Being their aim for it’s their weapon that’s entirely

Too effective in keeping people in line
When they wish only for freedom, not grime,
Using resources to empower the country
Not the conqueror, manipulator,  who’ll destroy

Without conscience, compassion,
Humanity,  for the longer they play the game
The greater the death toll, division
That increases the gap that need a bridge and time

To overcome the differences instilled
By an aggressor whose purpose is power.

©️ 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

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Certificate of Excellence for my poem, Worldly Secrets

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Worldly Secrets

The world is encased in books, where,
You travel from East to West, meds are
Enclosed in others, while language and culture
Unlock the secrets of the world through
Culture, songs, poetry that are a breakthrough
To understanding each other, unlocking secrets that brew.

©️ 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

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Certificate of Excellence for my poem, Ripples of Regret

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Ripples of Regret

The ripples of your actions transcend
Your present, as their butterfly effects are
Riddled with an elliptical cycle that’ll band your
Regret, elation into a box that’ll lend

A heavy weight that sinks into a grave
Where its ripples affect your day and flay
You, as you’re unaware of the magnitude of the pay
You pay while it sits under the ceaseless wave.

©️ 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

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Certificate of Appreciation for my poem,  Cunning Forest

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Cunning  Forest

The branches, arms whose scratchy fingers
Reach out to the sun in supplication’s furors
As they imbibe their chosen nectars
From the sun’s rays of energy, golden scepters

Vying for each caress to shine brilliantly
Off foliage, rainbows of greens, roses, gangly
Rousers of spreading life beams comically
As the petals of the flower spread soaring languidly

Into to the sky, as though it’s natural
For flowers to fly and stay in perpetual
Flight! Then the moss greens jump with the gall
To croak into a sepulcher of green that pall

Into insects that crawl, fall into a sea
Of fauna riddled with danger, not just a bee
But brightly colored serpents that make feel free
To pick as their beauty Dazzle, but their bite is the fee

You pay for holding such wonder
In slippery hands filled with fear
As it opens a mouth filled with canines, needlers
Of poisons of the same colors as their skin. As per

Forest law, the strong prey on the weak
But their jeweled colors deceive you to look
Closer, a risk not for the faint of heart that brook
A charm that leads you astray,  so peak

Into this enchanted forest of amazement
But take care not be ensorcelled by its sharp bombardment.

©️ 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