Poetry for Change
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work.
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
Cigarette 🚬
Holding it with my fingertips,
Caressing the paper filters,
Lighting a match, inhale, exhale airs,
Air that’s stuffy, foggy, stinky.
It casts an oppressive smell,
That you try to outrun like a bell
Ringing in lunchtime,
The smell becomes a halting
Breath that stalls in your lung
Fighting for oxygen’s purity
To flush out the dreadful
Odor that sticks to hair that fell,
And clothes that have a stench
Of smoke, driving you to asphyxiation
As you endeavor to hide from the pulverization
Of aromas that bleed deposits
Into bronchials that hinder
A normal breather.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
Poetess, my poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms, including Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Poetry for Change 