Poetry for Change
Literary Cocktail Magazine has accepted to publish my poem, Lone Beauty, in their next issue. I’m honored to be featured in their publication.
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
List your top 5 favorite fruits.
My 5 favorite fruits:
Mango, pineapple, and papaya as each one reminds me of my childhood in Ghana. Plus, their sweet flavor and juicy flavors always leave a wondrous taste in your mouth. Apples are my go to fruit, I love the crunch, sweet and tangy combination that makes you salivate for more. Finally, oranges are a reminder of my grandmother’s, mother, and mother-in-law who all enjoyed eating them.
So which is my favorite? It’s a mood thing. I believe my mood dictates my preferences, very much like when I’m craving chocolate!
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
Violence
When aggression reigns
People’s solidarity feigns
Peace to give rise to new
Violence that undermines a few.
Women and children being
Weaker are in danger of prying
Away their self-worth with words’
Derogatory punches that blows …
Blows that rain down like
A thundstorm of screams that aren’t fake,
But rather, breaks ensue
That take eons to heal in a pew.
Escape is sometimes the only
Way to endure this period of powerfully
Oppressive, and subjugated conditions
That requires succor from the perfections
Of a society whose aim is self preservation,
And where victims of violence live in perdition.
©️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
What does freedom mean to you?
To me, freedom equals having a home and family that endure under the obstacles of life. When I say home, I mean the people who occupy the house, family unit that could be related by blood or not. It’s one of those rights that give emotional and physical security in order to be ambitious in life and strive to improve your material or social status. Yes, that is a very colonial perspective, but then I witnessed 2 civil wars as a child, lived in 3 continents, all before I turned 12. Perhaps colonialism also taught me to appreciate my home because I had to rebuild it so many times in my 5 decades plus of life.
Home?
Where is home?
What is home?
These questions circle
Ceaselessly and kindle
The quest for answers for:
Where and what is home for?
I’ve immigrated to three
Continents searching for thee.
Why do you hide from me?
Why do you flee and oblige me
To search you out in lands gone mad?
How is that fair on a child who feels bad?
From the tropics to the Mediterranean,
To North America, in search of what you mean.
The child in me
Misses the simplicity of love,
Laughter that is innate,
But shaken with wars and fate,
That take away all joy and faith
In a moment of stolen breath.
Embrace the joy you’re given,
For tomorrow may bring hell or heaven.
©️Malak Kalmoni Chehab ©️
Poetess, author of poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, that’s 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
Break the Mold
Double Accrostic
Break out! Break the mold!
Remember to be you Me
Even when the going gEts tough
Are you able to stand kNowing
Kings entertainers athleTes professionals
The fame all encompAssing never fails
Heading into disaster Losing self-respect
Even before showing your true colors.
Steadfast strong never Holding back
Training accepting inevitability Employing
Ingenuity to excell in the face of Adversity
Gleaning the training necessary Leaving nothing
Motivating growth to keep the Team from
Annihilation by being the weak link Holding them back.
©️ 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.
On Sunday, we went to High Park in Toronto in order to get a peak at the cherry Blossoms. It was disappointing to see that 80% of the flowers had fallen already, but the Park was full of families, bikers, teens, all out in the sun, watching nature around us. Among the beauty that captured my imagination was this beautiful bird: Red winged black bird, Agelaius, difficult to pronounce for sure, but an Astoundingly beautiful bird with red and yellow wings contrasting starkly with the ebony black of the bird’s body. The only way for me to have been able to capture it in flight was to take a video and screenshot the pictures I wanted, then zoom.
I had such a great time, walked/ hiked the trail with my cousin, then had lunch. The weather was a beautiful spring day with very little wind and hot sun, no jacket needed. Highly recommend a visit. Below is a picture from a Google search, clearly showing the different colors in the wing.
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
My poem received the above certificate of achievement.
May’s Spring
My eyes are always turned to the sky,
Where beauty and simplicity vie
For supremacy in an empty spacy.
Birds of all kinds fly by, flocking, migrating,
Setting new habits for their chicks’ living
Quarters that are overflowing with forests, changing
With each new flock that’s arriving.
Live honoring nature’s power,
Its giving nature that is a bower
Of safety when you need a lover
Without motives, who is only a supporter.
Embrace your brethren in humanity,
Their races receding into the vicinity
Of acceptance, that all Man is emotionally
And physically the same, all have red blood.
Feelings, passions, and red flowing blood
Saunter into each’s body in a flood
Of confusion that needs sorting and bud,
Swamping everyone with a unique personage.
Burgeon into your character,
Let your wings flutter,
Soar like a flower petal as the breezer
Tries to alter your course, but you are its conqueror.
©️ 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
I’m always wondrously amazed that my work is being honored by fellow poets.
I’ll apologize to my readers or followers for the darkness of the themes that I’m writing about in the recent months, but they are my outlet for past and present visual trauma of war.
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
What makes you nervous?
Confrontations that may hurt other people’s feelings, especially family members, are my worst nightmare. In all honesty, I usually bottle up my problems so that when I do finally confront the person, my reaction is usually stronger, more aggressive than it should be. That alone creates more problems. I’m working on being more upfront with my feelings, but it’s difficult to change 5 decades of behavior in a short time.
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 