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
River of Life
The river is an allegory for life
It is at times smooth as glass,
Clear as a bell, strong enough to sand rocks
Into the smoothest silky textures.
It’s teamed with life, as different species
Live and let live, while others, more dangerous,
Hunt, dessimate, and devour their preys.
It isn’t enough to see that rivers allegate
To all that is portrayed in life,
Rather one needs to be aware that cycles
In nature are imitations of human life.
The strong prey on the weak,
Large numbered populace impose their belief,
Rather than understanding one another,
Exchanging respect and help to survive
The difficulties that life’s cyclones
Throw your way to test your will, powers
Your unity, compassion, empathy, and loves.
Let nature be your teacher,
Respect its mightier strength as a lover,
Embrace its touch, reach into the sun to empower
Your steely strength as swelteringly hot as
The magma that bubbles from within
Trying in vain to alligate its worth to that of life not death.
©️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, administrators, for your hard work, and for choosing my poem for such an honor.
Existential Void
Double Accrostic
Extenuating circumstances Vie to the
Xysti to try and rest Omitting
Intentionality of an existental voId
Sublimating intensions of Destructively
Tumultuous wars within that try to
Eradicate despair’s darkest emptiness,
Never allowing it to overflow with
The love, faith needed to defy Villany
Interminable in its need to destrOy
Astronomical strength that Intensifies
Living in the light of hope, never Denouncing the void.
©️ 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, administrators, for your hard work and the accolade.
Perfection
Quintessence is godly
In that our wishes to attain it are but vanity;
As our imperfections make us humane
While we endeavor to attain
Perfection’s domain requiring
Hard work, strength of belief, boasting
Becomes nothing but detrimental
As it stagnates our growth in a looping cycle.
Knowing that quintessence
Is always a step away from ordinance
As there will always be something
New to attempt to achieve, as roving
Minds will need fuel for growth,
Which demands improving, in stealth,
As one needs to learn in steps
Before moving towards newer goals, in steps.
©️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.
Dualities
The binary opposition symbols in life have
Somewhat helped identify that you gave
Thought to the ‘other’ by describing
The ‘self’ through an opposing
Lense not unlike the way we divide
Our characters with Yin and Yan that hide
The existence of otherness within
That is Masked and out of site, in a bin.
The tree of life is no different
Then the struggle within that’s bent
On having ‘good’ win against ‘evil’,
Knowing the oversimplification that’ll
Persuade the peridic nature of anger
To cool with the calming breeze, paper,
That hang onto the branches, safer,
As emotions try to erode its beautifier
Of shades, hues of greens, pleasing
To the eye, while knowing that changing
From one state of emotion to another
Is as fugacious as the flow of a timer
Set off too swiftly to linger
On the abstinence of a greater
Power that helps settle the struggle
Making managing life easier than trouble.
©️ 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 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
A simple ‘Wish for Peace’, where children play, innocently not wake in fear as they hear a plane pass them by; where families have a right to live together, where death comes only by accident or age, where the need for justice is stronger than making money, and where prosperity is achievable. I hope this International Day for Peace brings up REAL PEACE.
Wish for Peace
The fragile beauty of the dandelion
In my hand whose grip on land
Dares you to eradicate its presence in Zion
As it spreads through the wish for peace to lend
A hand to those in need of a blend
Of peace in their days of suffering
Without end.
Wish for peace for them to send
Their children to schools
With filled bellies of fresh food
Sprinkled with life giving water that drools
In honor of a wish for peace that stood
On the doorstep waiting, waiting
Patiently for humanity’s response
To help save those whose beliefs, never straying,
Empowers their wish for peace
For a new generation without
The need to revisit the trauma of today’s
Dire escalations of genocides in a bout
Of cataclysmic fear whose only wish is for peace.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
Published in: Petal Projections Magazine
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
SOVEREIGNTY
Suffocating the subjugated with sovereignty
Openly uttering negativity to sublimanate the
Vanity of the sovereign imposing rules,
Entertaining the ‘other’ to propagate being
Receptive to differences and acceptance of
Even alteration of ‘self’ to become
Instantly ‘sovereign-passing’, whose race is unimportant
Gravitating to implementing a ‘New’ identity,
Needing integration into society, never
Trusting that your OWN IDentity identifies
Your language, culture, civilization that’s uniquely You.
©️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. Below please read the Double Gold winning poem:
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.
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
Poetry for Change 