Malak Kalmoni. Chehab So many awful things to leave behind, amen! Your repetition of Farewell to these losses, traumas and horrors is both powerful and poignant. You portray them with amazing images and intriguing rhymes. I like how you alter your repetition to speak to hope for change and harmony. Wonderful poem, bravo!! 👏
By: Linda Powers O’Dell
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Say Farewell
Farewell I say
To another year, slipping
Into yesterday in a blink eying
The world through a backward lense to play
Farewell I say
To war that followed into genocide
Where white phosphorus is a guide
To death that’ll pay and say:
Farewell I say
To colonizers whose dominance
Is nothing but a posturing stance
That rides a high till it lands in grey
Farewell I say
To the muck of horrors that movies
Would fear to display as crazies,
For, to them I lay
My farewell to say:
Leave the people to their freedom
Don’t subjugate, ruin, destroy as you come
To steal resources under cover of pray,
So, say farewell to the grey
Quagmire of losses, trauma that sway
In harmony with nature creating a stray
Wind of change that’ll cross oceans and pray …
©️ 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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