stairs – Poetry for Change

Double Silver Certificate for my poem, Her Hibiscus Memory

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Her Hibiscus Memory

Her memory of her decrepit home
Is fueled by her emotions of love
As each memory climbs the stairs
Of her vertebrae pairs

Fears, failures, successes, wins
While the climbing red hibiscus pins
Each step with a blood red popping
Flower that recalls triumphing

Against trends, unbreakable chains
That bogged her life with pains
She upended with optimism, passion
For living life with discipline, faith
Carried her through the quagmire stealing breath

As she surmount it all, regal, queenly,
As she faces what’s necessary,
Ignores the unimportant, treads carefully
When diplomacy is compulsory,

Then she asserts her vision
Of the world through action,
She leaves her imprint
Without being an obnoxious pint.

©️ 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

Double Gold Certificate for my poem, She Climbs

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

She Climbs

Once upon a fairytale, a young woman
Dressed in a grey flowy dress caresses
Her calf, flies with the winds of change, blesses
Each step on the decrepit stairs as she ran

Up to her waiting destiny, her knight.
Each step closer to her goal becomes
Brighter for hope shines like crimes
Hiding in darkness’ blight.

The baluster along the way
Changes from rotten to golden
As her aim comes closer, all of a sudden
She trips, falls as strong arms carry

The burdens she hauls a weight
Heavier than Atlas’ heavens up to a fine
Glittery tower where its bulk dissipates in line
With the rays that shine on meliorism’s height

That stomps out the blight of despair
That weighs her down, yet, she continues
To strive to achieve optimism’s news
That harken loudly into the pews of heavenly repair.

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