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Certificate of Appreciation for my poem,  Hidden Garden

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Hidden Garden

‘In the garden where secrets grow,
Colors dance in a vibrant show’
As secrets grow in each blossom
Where rainbowed hues bloom

In varieties that astound the eye
Hidden from the sight of those who fly
By seeing only tangible beauty, while
This garden can only be perceived with the guile

Of childhood’s ingenuity that discerns
Patterns unseen by those whose senses
Have dulled with time. So, the child finds
The key that opens a doorway to gardens

Of Eden where the flytrap behaves
Like a pet, while the Cobra Lily heaves
Bubbles filled with rainbows that strive
To seep into the world with endless hope to give

The Death Camasa flair of colored scents
Dazzle the olfactory glands in a bid to circumventing
Its natural toxicity, for the child only sees beauty
While adults fear the unknown blindly.

©️ 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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Notable Submission for my acrostic poem, AURORA

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AURORA
Astounding colors painting the sky
Under twilight’s light, breathtaking
Roar of imagination’s vibrations written
On the horizon with a painter’s precision
Rearing up for another spectacular vision
Awe inspiring in its hopeful beauty.

©️ 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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WOW, 740 views last week!!!!

I’m humbled,  honored,  and flabbergasted by these numbers.  I feel great kinship with all my viewers, readers, commentators who feel a sense of connection to the world through my writing.  

I’m glad to say that I’m growing as a poet, since I play with a Variety of structures that show different strengths and rhythms.  Some are more bubbly while others retain a more traditional structure based on the importance of the theme the poem is building.

I thank you all my viewers, family of kind reviewers, and family without whose support my writing would feel empty.

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,  Death’s Light

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Beautiful mirroring poem, Malak, contrasting darkness and light like matter/antimatter images. Each stanza swells, expands and then contracts, like a realization of an important truth, an insight. The first is a powerful trip through the shadows of death, the dominion of the devil and the damned. The second stanza is a heavenly reprieve, a victory over destroying deviltry. Creatiing these two realms, your images are fantastic, original and elegantly presented. Excellent, dramatic poem!! By Linda Powers O’Dell

Death’s Light

Dark,
Razor sharp,
Claws of nails torn,
Horns of hell adorn
The souls of evils that step
Into the obscure, winding well to help
Those damned souls to reach
The pinprick of light breach
The diabolic breath, laugh,
Full of a pestilent cuff,
Shadowy death,
Lingering,
Stealing
Life
Turned
To death.
Dark.

Light,
Souls so bright,
Cleave the way to flight.
Soar in a cyclone’s might,
Into a haven of promised delight.
Tell your tale in whispers fiery
In their warmth and stealthy
In their fight against deviltry,
Whose hold is sturdy
But crumbles
When faced
With
Light.

©️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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Triple Diamond Certificate for my poem,  Her Home of Glass

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.

Her Home of Glass

Her home is made of glass,
Glass bottle that only bubbles,
Bubbles with her emotions, bottled,
Bottled up from fear,
Fear of a release that’ll explode,
Explode in shards of glass,
Glass that’ll embed in skin,
Skin that’s thin, easily penetrated,
Penetrated, fragile, vulnerable,
Vulnerable to injuries physical, emotional,
Emotional that devastate the psyche,
Psyche where trauma resides,
Resides in the our hearts,
Hearts that decay with anger,
Anger that makes us decimated in hunger,
Hunger for peace that’ll turn,
Turn her glass paradigm into solid,
Solid unpenatrable armor,
Armor that protects, unbreakable,
Unbreakable when faced with difficulties,
Difficulties of life that pulverize,
Pulverize the heart and mind,
Mind that needs peace to reside calm.


©️ 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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My poem, Athena,  Warrior, is published in Stencils Magazine

Thank you for the honor and your hard work.  The link for the magazine is below.

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Athena, Warrior

Her resplendent beauty gleams
In the raven sky, her star shines
Brighter with her golden armor, protective
Of her vulnerabilities, as she needs to survive.
Its glow is there to strive
To outlast the unbeliever who stirs the hive.

Her might glistens and reverberates
Throughout her vicinity, vindictive as it propels
Instability, division, dissention, and war!
Booming war cries echo their strengths, none bar
Her entry, as she subjugates those weaker
Through fear and magic of her glittery armor.

Those whose insolence is hidden behind their
Camouflage of piety, are two, three faced, where
They keep their dissonance locked,
So their perfidy is unexpected,
And the humbleness nothing but beguiled
Discourse that pleases the open hearted.

Beware of those wearing lambskin,
But are in reality cutthroats whose noggin
Is an empty shell that requires
It to be filled by others to act out wars.

©️ 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,  Soar Into Change

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Well said, Malak! We must be adaptable on our journeys of self-discovery; we must accept and expect that much is unknown. Your philosophical analysis of the parts of or requirements for being brave and self-aware is excellent synecdoche. Your stanzas are so well developed and balanced, your rhymes are powerful. Great poem!! By, Linda Powers O’Dell

Soar into Change

Any journey where all is known
Is too predictable,  boring even,
While the bends, ups, and down
Aren’t fixed, they do stay hidden

The beauty of self awareness
Is in being flexible, adaptable
To changes that can repress
The ability to move forward, that’s indomitable.

Catch the fire of self-discovery
That soars above your comfort
Zone, where all is set, scheduled, an armory
Of built masks that dissuade building a port

Where support and change
Are an integral part of being brave
Enough to be aware that a stagnant age
Is a slow death of imagination as a bondslave.

©️ 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 for my double poem, Existential Void

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Bravo for taking on such a challenging form, Malak! This poem is wonderfully, deeply philosophical and psychological. You valorize those “Tumultuous wars within that try to/Eradicate despair’s darkest emptiness,” the struggles of hope that refuse to give in to villainy and the void. Powerful poem!! By Linda Powers O’Dell

Double Acrostic
Existential Void

E xtenuating circumstances       Vie to the
X ysti to try and rest                     Omitting
I ntentionality of an existental voId
S ublimating intensions of         Destructively
T umultuous wars within that try to
E radicate despair’s darkest emptiness,
N ever allowing it to overflow with
T he love, faith needed to defy    Villany
I nterminable in its need to destrOy
A stronomical strength that         Intensifies
L iving in the light of hope, never Denouncing the void.

©️ 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 Excellence for my acrostic poem,  AUSTERITY

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Acrostic
AUSTERITY
Assuaging your desires at the expense of
Ubiquitous has become the norm, when
Stressing the need for discipline, restraint,
Temperateness, are all thrown out as they
Engulfs you in disdain of those whose lack of
Restraint will unfortunately lead to
Infinite complications in life that would
Testify that a bit of abstinence would
Yield a life fuller, complete with family, unity, humanity.

©️ 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.,  Spiritual Union’s Courage

Malak Kalmoni. Chehab
A bold and thought-provoking piece that highlights courage and empathy, portraying shared humanity through acts of sacrifice and unwavering solidarity. ✨  By, Nazmieh W. E. Insaniyat


Spiritual Union’s Courage

Greta Thunberg and many others
Have navigated treacherous waters
Taking the Freedom Flotilla II, to
Alleviate hunger at the hand of genocides crew

Whose sole purpose is eradicating
Natives to steal their lands hoping
That their resistance would be short-lived,
Yet, it has lasted 26 months unchecked.

For Great, Rima Hassan their futile
Attempt landed them in the same file
As those to be saved, prison,  torture
Like no other. That didn’t deter their flight
To sweep to the rescue people they don’t

Know, but empathize with their plight,
Knowing the fight is a historic statement
Of courage, spiritual union, and strength
To dive into danger for others’ breath.

©️ 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