I’m humbled, honored, and highly motivated by the number of views that I’ve received this past week. It feels like the world is celebrating with me my son’s engagement with their support of my writing. I’m speechless by the following and highly appreciate each critique, like, and follow. It drives me to write more. Thank you all.
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.
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Extraordinary poem, Malak, superb! Delicious creative allieration, ingenious rhymes in a sonnet, powerful extended metaphor, and a profound uplifting theme. I read this poem multiple times finding new treasures each time. One line that struck and moved me was, “Where negativity was the succor.” That’s deeply authentic.
By Linda Powers O’Dell
Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Stealthy Labyrinth
A Labyrinth of life and living Flies in files with the passing minutes, Striving in sleaves of loss’ imprints Are appropriate in their perfecting
Flight that they can’t be bound. Imprisoned by imposed labels, categories, Races, and groups that astound In their versatility, but not humanities.
I’ve lived in this labyrinth of life, Where negativity was the succor Given by some of my entourage, that’s rife With jealousy, bias, and is a bereaver.
They suck out the optimism and Joy of life out of each stupendous second, That you fear drowning in the labyrinth Of fiery destruction that steals your breath.
Instead, let the minutia of the labyrinth Turn into an adventurous life in stealth.
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.
In the depth of autumn’s fury, The day has a ritulant glow Encasing her gold tresses in a halo Of light As she holds her pen, poised, to carry
Her vision of a world filled with cheer, Shimmering over the river’s shore, Accepting her peaceful humanity where fear Is a forgotten feeling that seeps through pore
Flooding away its trauma, building New communities, integrated with purpose As she watches addictions evaporating And discipline, righteousness are the cause
Held dear to all. She keeps her pen Over the paper, wishing, wishing That life as she knows it dissipates into a hen- House, encasing all the negativity and fishing
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.
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab How exuberant, Malak, a glorious ode to the joy of autumn! It’s wonderful how you encourage the reader to fly free, to be adventurous, rejuvenated. That’s a lovely irony since spring is typically invoked. Then you inspire us to become a brightening star like the sun and to be lighthearted, not to melt and burn, but to brighten the world in liberating fun. Your entire poem has the most wonderful feeling of a rising sun, the “flame of life.” By Linda Powers O’Dell
Fall Sunset
The flaming sun burnishes the sky With reds and oranges Spilling over tree tops Like a flame of life; let go and Fly!
Fly like the falling leaf strewn Into an adventure to adorn The grounds with its fragility Rejuvenation and transiency.
Fly into the rutilant shine, Shining brighter than the setting Or rising sun, know that you’re fine And unequivocally a star brightening
Those around you with greater Influence, power than any sun Whose heat melts those closer, While you, you brighten the sphere for fun.
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.
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.
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab powerful poem Malak, Hard hitting and rightly so! This is a well crafted poem but probably quite difficult to verbalise aloud… it has few obvious breaks or pauses between stanzas and complex word use… The only way I think this could be adequately delivered is then hard and fast, within righteous anger, an emotional outpouring of angst? Or very slowly in a resigned,defeated tempo… mid way would stumble… and it is too good a poem with too important a message to stumble…. I’m interested in your thoughts?
Thank you for the honor and your hard work. This was a spoken poem that’s difficult to render, but I’ll do my best.
We Did Everything
We did all we could … Yet, genocide is as deadly as beheading, Death is as real as your breathing, Living is as traumatic as a horrifying cloud.
We did all we could … But child amputees are running marathons To survive but another day as pawns Of politics that’s gross as it hammered
That “We did all we could”, clause That left pregnant mothers to die, Elderly to fry in fire’s explosive dye, Fathers to be scattered in pieces in cruel cries
That “We did all we could”, was Said to assuage politicians’ conscious While knowing their endeavors were shackled in pious Prison, whose doctrine permits rapes,
Whose haze in, “We did all we could”, Evaporates in the fog of time that flies Without scheduling its prime in trauma that cries Out to be understood, yet, their voices loud
And proud in the hopeful quagmire of guilt Of surviving, whole or not, presses In the abyss of despair where hopeless Orphaned, erased families, press to built.
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.
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.
Malak Kalmoni. Chehab Profound, amazing poem, Malak! Excellent parallel structure created by the repetition of your first lines. You’ve captured much of the state of the world with forceful images and observations. The compassionate do not rest, refugees find jail, the young die before their time, politicians abandon ethics. True, so true. Great poem!! By, Linda Powers O’Dell
Thank you for the honor and the review for my poetry. I’m always humbled by your comments.
Bodies of Death
Bodies of the world, Whose blood runs red, Whose compassionate souls Never rest on behalf of victims’ hells.
Bodies of diverse diaspora You’ve run in many directions like magma, Setting a furor of ambition wherever You land to prove yourself a better jailer.
Bodies of heavenly death Speak on behest of lost souls whose breath Was snuffed too young to comprehend The fervor to achieve power and behead.
Bodies of the political world, Your humanity is suspected Of being lacking in affinity with your Essence of ethical behavior that’s just not your core.
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.
I’m deeply honored for being chosen to be of the firsts as the Poets of the Year 2025. It’s humbling and moving to receive such an honor. It motivates me to work harder to get my voice across.
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 2025.
In the depth of autumn’s fury, The day has a ritulant glow Encasing her gold tresses in a halo Of light As she holds her pen, poised, to carry
Her vision of a world filled with cheer, Shimmering over the river’s shore, Accepting her peaceful humanity where fear Is a forgotten feeling that seeps through pore
Flooding away its trauma, building New communities, integrated with purpose As she watches addictions evaporating And discipline, righteousness are the cause
Held dear to all. She keeps her pen Over the paper, wishing, wishing That life as she knows it dissipates into a hen- House, encasing all the negativity and fishing
Out the best of optimism’s cry That resonates into souls needing to fight.
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.
Poetry for Change 