Poetry for Change

Review for my poem, Fall Play

Post author By Malakkc
Post date October 18, 2026
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Malak Kalmoni. Chehab How delightful, a glorious description of the joys of fall! The crunching leaves, the brilliant colors, Halloween, the excitement of the cooler season. Excellent rhymes and rhythm, onomatopoeia, and vibrant images. 🍁 Malak, I hope you’ve already joined our new group, Invisible Poets Core. It is for serious poets who are dedicated to poetry and you are certainly such a poet. 🤗💗 By, Linda Powers O’Dell

Thank you for the kind encouraging words that elevate my writing.

#musette
Fall Play

Fall’s here
Let the leaves
Crunch hall

All kids
To play scary
Booooo! Ooooohhhhhs

Colors
Bright as the sun
Mix’n plays

Pumping
Adrenaline
All day’n.
©️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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Accolade and Review for my poem, Rage, Rage

Post author By Malakkc
Post date October 17, 2026
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Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Such a powerful, thoughtful provoking poem, Malak! Our best values too often take a back seat, are put on a back burner, while fear and anger rule. Congratulations on a profound poem! By, Linda Powers O’Dell

Rage, Rage …

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”¹
Pray that it helps you stave off the blight.

What courage you lacked in life, use to survive
The rending of your soul into an abyss that’s alive
With darkness, depression, hurt, pain, and ruin.

Strugle against succumbing into oppression
Of a world that dictates perfection when its application
Of destruction is an overwhelming aberration of nature.

Humanity’s need to have compassion in its revision
Of the betterment of itself and its eternal vision
Of empathy, equality, love, success, and understanding.

They seem to be relegated to a back burner
While the propagation of fear of many a hater
Abound in a world where the unknown is its only reason for existing.

Media and social media disseminate and foster
The requirements to strike at terror and its founder,
But, ironically, terror sells and peace dies!

What about you? The reader and audience,
What’s your stance on struggling?
Give up or take a forcefull stance?

©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
¹ Dylan Thomas

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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Review for my poem, One, Two

Post author By Malakkc
Post date October 9, 2026
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Malak Kalmoni. Chehab This is a thrilling, ethical poem, Malak, a powerful protest against genocide, inequality, and domination. Your righteous anger is brilliant. We need poems like this in the world, or rather, the world needs a kick in the arse like this poem. You’ve created a fantastic form that swells and diminishes; it’s perfect for describing how “a rebellious rage” against injustice and subjugation builds and builds and then acts to restore peace.
Your line syllable count,
1,1,2,3,5,8,16,18, 8, 5, 3, 2, 2, 1,1,
is dramatic and visually appealing. Brava! By, Linda Powers O’Dell

Thank you for the encouraging words.

One, Two

And
One
Two, three,
World is free
Of war not peace that
Rebels against genocide feel
Perpetuate the need for equality, justice
By confronting demeaning attitudes with powerful words that
Instill a rebellious rage for subjugation’s sign’s
Unacceptable domination
Needs a kick in the
Arse to free
Press while
Peaceful
For
Thee
©️ 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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Published in Stencils Magazine Online, September Edition, poem, School Migration

Post author By Malakkc
Post date October 4, 2026
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I am humbled and Supremely honored to be published in last month’s issue of Stencils Magazine that has an eclectic variety of writers, poets from the international community. It helps us increase our reach through the platform they’ve provided for us. Thank you. Below is the link to access the magazine.

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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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4th place for my poem, ode to Josephine Gomez

Post author By Malakkc
Post date September 30, 2026
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Thank you for the honor and your hard work. A tribute to a multitalented woman.

Josephine Gomez

A Tsunami like no other has swept
Civilization’s imprint on land in waves that crept
At impossible heights, pounding
Into cities, ravaging

All within its reach, a name,
Gomez, Josephine stands like a flame
For truth, honesty, equality never
Letting criticism stall her voice fly forever

Into the minds of those whose
Open minds let it seep in, smolder as trends.

©️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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Certificate for my acrostic poem, WORLD PEACE DAY

Post author By Malakkc
Post date September 29, 2026
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Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Acrostic
WORLD PEACE DAY

Wrong words wobble
On the train of peace, that hobbles
Reaching its destination
Later than usual, for the
Devastation that needed to be overcome

Peppered the land in rubble
Emptying the souls of victims of
Armored hope that flies on
Compromised wings that still
Enter the sky’s vastness instilling

Dangerous hope for peace
Arriving on its hobbled legs
Yet still drowning away dessent.

©️ 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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Certificate of Appreciation for my acrostic poem, FREEDOM

Post author By Malakkc
Post date September 28, 2026
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Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

FREEDOM

Fiery fire of rebellion run free
Refuse to be bound by rules
Eternally oppressing those they want
Elevated to reign above those who abhor the
‘Divide and Conquer’ rule, for it keeps the
Obsession for power guarded by those
Meticulous in appearing subjugated, but rebel in the shadows of hell.
©️ 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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Accolade and Review for my poem, Why Am I a Fairytale?

Post author By Malakkc
Post date September 28, 2026
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Malak Kalmoni. Chehab This is a superb and thought provoking poem, Malak, every fairy tale is a battle between good and evil. We often focus on the heroes and heroines, but as your poem wonderfully points out, there are villains to be considered: villagers who attack the Beast’s castle, an evil queen who Snow conquers with the help of her peers, the dwarfs. With Peter Pan you broaden your perspective; there are pirates who would force us to give in to fear, to grow up as we abandon flights of imagination. Your last stanza fantastically imagines a tale inspiring us with an appreciation of beauty. This is a fabulous idea!! I so hope you will write one. You’ve set my imagination ablaze trying to think what a tale like this might be. Congratulations on your structure here, your images and rhymes! Excellent poem!! By, Linda Powers O’Dell

I’m honored and humbled by your inspiring words. Thank you

Why Am I a Fairytale?

Who’s the villain in my fairytale?
How do I identify the many who prey
On the defenseless victims as play?
A game of power that’ll flay?

If I were Belle, then the villagers
Are villains who are traipse, conquerers
Who impose their opinions, dominators
Against the struggle to be unique, not subjugators.

If I were Snow White, peers would
Be the plight I fight against that could
Win against the rulers, powers that should
Protect not project dissention and division.

If I were Peter Pan, then all those
Who demand the destruction of imagination’s prose
Are villains who superimpose
The need for lambs not lions.

If I were a new fairytale
My character would draw a tale
Of impossible appreciation of beauty that never fail
To send my senses into a new veil.

©️ 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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Review for my poem, Who’s Wo(Man)

Post author By Malakkc
Post date September 27, 2026
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Malak Kalmoni. Chehab This is a powerful, important poem, Malak. Your use of parentheses drives home the equality of the genders in a wonderfully original and thoughtful way. When we think of how far we have to go, despite the evolution of the gender battles, it can be dispiriting. Your poem, however, is full of determination and faith in the strength of women. You point out their ability to complete “in all domains,” while unfairly struggling to be superb at both work and home. Your rhymes here (AABBCC….) are quite wonderful, as is your rhythm. Excellent poem! By Linda Powers O’Dell

Thank you for the wonderful accolade.

Who’s Wo(Man)

I’m a wo(man) of great potential
But the (man) thought to keep her special
Brand of strength hidden from neighbors
As the wo(man’)s abilities grew like robbers
Of the man’s by competing in all domains,
Yet, still the wo(man) struggles and strains
To balance home and work without
Compromising either. Alas, it’s no wonder the bout
Of battles of the genders has evolved,
Now wo(man) can be either or, and devolved.

©️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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