Poetry for ChangeAccrostic
Reap, repair, revere, reverse, roam, run
Embrace what’s broken,
Practice patience …
Air out your thoughts …
Implement actions to your goals…
Renew your drives
Implement changes
Never surrender to failures
Grow your flexibility and fix the impossible.
Somewhere
Once there
My repair begins
Embedding …
Tuning into
Having patience
In achieving
New dreams
Gone wild with life!
As the keeper of my secrets,
I need to confess my troubles.
I run around trying to please everyone And seem to end up alone!
As if by indulging others’ needs before mine,
I relegate my own happiness into a dark mine.
In it, the gloominess of the ambience
Is oppressive, comfortless, and has no patience.
As I squabble with my inner demons,
And my supererogation drowns my angels’ voices,
I notice that angels are a happy lot,
Who empower the self and never forgot
That there’s a price to pay for sacrificing For others, but it doesn’t need to be self-defeating.
No, no, no, and once more, no!
By helping others, you aren’t weak to
Assert your endowments to achieve
Your wishes without being demeaning,
Rather, you can help others believe
Not only in themselves, but in You.
“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
To be a coward,
One must:
Fear being changed,
Fear loving it,
Fear beauty,
Fear being hopeful,
Fear the inspirational,
Fear of being an individual,
Fear of being assertive,
Fear of being humane,
Fear of being disruptive,
Fear of being positive.
When all is locked in a chest,
How can you break its best
From solid bonds that need a rest?
Take pride in ‘you’, the ‘person’,
Have faith in yourself and press on,
Knowing that what’s right will live on!
The monsters of love are envy and an inability to achieve what others can. Monster is a poem read by Malak Kalmoni Chehab, from her poetry book, Perfectly Flawed. Enjoy!
https://anchor.fm/s/99d80d30/podcast/rss
Above is the link for my poetry reading of my poem ‘Fightback ‘, from my poetry book, Perfectly Flawed. I hope you enjoy the empowering message.
https:///Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518 Amazon.com
Tick tock, tick tick, Zeus and Hera were gods of old,
Whose siblings and children ruled Olympus to forward
Their traits into humanity, but if they didn’t subjugate
Themselves to the will of the gods, they impose their revenge.
Tick tock, tick tock, polytheism gods’ names change
With time, civilizations, to represent the needs of the
People, from Thor to Anu, to Anubis, and Dragon
Or Shangti who require sacrifice and receded into anon.
Tick tock, tick tock, monotheism starts with Moses,
Jesus, and Mohammad whose miracles and messages
Are similar in that they ALL believe in One God that reigns
Supreme in the heavens.
Today, we regress into polytheism of the church
Of the broken god, that believes in evil within flesh,
While aspiring to mechanization of self, logic, and intellect.
Again the female god is animalistic and impulsive.
Yet, so many others continue to revere the monotheistic
Religions, knowing that faith is an antidepressant,
A builder of confidence, a strength stronger than mountains.
It elevates you and steers you away from obduracy.
The journey of life encompasses extreme emotions
From depression, to betrayal, to exhiliration.
Starting from worst to best in order to end on a positive note
We begin at the lowest times filled with darkness:
An abyss of desolateness that propels you into a whole
Whirlpool that sucks you into a vortex of helplessness.
Don’t succomb to it!
Shout out your power and suppress anything that depresses it!
Betrayal is next, it’s the real-estate of a state of extreme
Emotions overpowering your selfworth and take
You into a sepulcher of pain trying to negate Its influence.
Accept it, face it, then leave it in a chest,
Locked, chained, and sealed with the hardiest
Of mannacles that are intangible, but bind none the less!
Your exhiliration comes with success in overcoming failure,
Cheer in the face of animosity, changes that come before
You are ready, but there regardless.
Facing the challenges of change can be charmless,
Or it could be an exultation so overpowering it renders
Your fear into miniscule object that has a suppressor.
Let life’s challenges be what strengthens who you are,
Let it assert its dominion over those ‘Nay Sayer’,
Never succumbing into the blackwhole of despair.
Let your faith in yourself be your real-estate rather than a betrayer.
Poetry for Change 