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mrmann submitted a contest entry to
What would the old version or you say to the new version of you? 3 months, 1 weeks agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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mrmann submitted a contest entry to
Write a poem or letter about one way you feel misunderstood 3 months, 3 weeks agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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TK shared a letter in the
Chasing Your Dreams group 4 months agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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TK shared a letter in the
Chasing Your Dreams group 4 months agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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TK shared a letter in the
Poetry group 4 months, 1 weeks agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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malakkc submitted a contest entry to
Write a love letter to something (not someone) that you love 4 months, 3 weeks agoAddiction
Malak Kalmoni ChehabAddiction
I’m an addict
And I know it!I revere two of the three Cs:
Coffee, candy, and cigarettes.I love my coffee alone with my contemplation
Of life, likes, posts, news, like a great commotion,Flitting from one to the next trying to see
What’s best before I rest to be free.Posts galore and replies of mine
Make my day, as the taste of CoffeeFeels like a sinful pleasure.
With my dark drink, I bite into chocolate,And drift into a coma at heaven’s gate.
I savor the sweetness along the strengthOf body of the coffee and it’s bitterness.
Life with the morning rituals
Cake, candy, chocolate, coffee and sweetsIs like life without a hero like Ferrero,
Or Cadbury, Mars, KitKat, and Aero!Raising the bar in a day filled
With noise, poised to litter the mindWith fear, worry, and being drear!
So my habitual start is set in stone:Coffee, contemplation, quiet that have
A lead to social media, news, where I refuseTo succumb to its dadarkness
That needs to twist your morning addictionsInto a depressive, foggy darkness.
Let your coffee’s wisdom fill
Your empty cup with hope that willReject solidifying into despair,
But reaches in your depths to repair.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️Voting is closed
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Malak, I’m glad that your vices include coffee and candy but not cigarettes. That one has to be the worst of the three, right? If we really stop and think about it, everyone is addicted to something. At least being addicted to coffee and candy will bring joy to your life! Thank you for sharing your experience.
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Very true, the only problem with coffee addiction it causes reflux and at some point, like everything else, you need to stop drinking it! 😞
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mrmann submitted a contest entry to
Write a love letter to something (not someone) that you love 4 months, 3 weeks agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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ithaca submitted a contest entry to
Write a letter to your fear (Sponsored by ProWritingAid) 5 months agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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malakkc submitted a contest entry to
Write a letter to your fear (Sponsored by ProWritingAid) 5 months, 1 weeks agoFEAR, BREATHE, THINK, ACT
Malak Kalmoni ChehabFEAR
Fear: fast heart beats feasting feverishly
Every time fear ramps serotonin quickly,
Amply avid in avoiding pain, fastidious in
Remaining alive to tell the tale of FEAR.
FEARBREATHE …
Barely breathing, the brain astoundingly
Reveals its respiratory ease, by reviewing
Every fear, entering the data, waiting
Another moment for analysis, wading,
Through the morass of a lack of logic,
Hearing only haloed heartbeats, heaving.
Eternally aware of time flowing: BREATHE.
BREATHE ..THINK …
Through and push through thinking
Halves my reasoning, homing only on survival
Instead of clarity of thought,
Never receiving the memo of
Knowing that ‘fight or flight’ is all in a knot. THINK.
THINK …ACT …
Actively, arduously permitting action that
Covers slippery seconds of being frozen, while
Time reveals your success, failure, and your missing fervor.
ACT …©️Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
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Malak, I really liked how you described this process. Fear can make us overanalyze the simplest situations. It can be difficult to overcome it, especially when you are spiraling and struggling to understand how your body is truly reacting to situations when you are making decisions based on an emotion that controls you. I am glad you took back…read more
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Thank you for enjoying and connecting to my writing, it empowers me to delve deeper into issues that are present in our societies
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Lauren Brill shared a letter in the
Poetry group 6 months agoForgotten
NasheshiaForgotten in the hidden emotions I feel,
Behind the weed and underneath the alcohol,SEEN too much,
HEARD too much,
KNOW TOO MUCH
Forgot to SPEAK UP
Because I didn’t know any better
And because you said I didn’t need any help,So I’m just another “mad black woman” who can do bad all by myself because you said
black people don’t need therapy
I listened
I believed you but I forgot to believe me
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James/Maintain4life shared a letter in the
Surviving Addiction group 6 months, 1 weeks agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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malakkc submitted a contest entry to
Write a poem or letter about your best memory of 2024 6 months, 2 weeks agoMeetings
Malak Kalmoni ChehabMy children have met someone
That might become their
Partner, a life partner,
Whose aim is to keep both, never alone,To start a family of their own.
Dealing with advice, first disagreement,
First time meeting anxiety lent
Some insight into meetings flownOff their trajectory into a NO
While others have progressed
For months, weeks, days, dressed
In meeting spaces trying to leave NOLeaf, question unanswered before
Coming face to face, as they brace
For acceptance, liking, passion, in a pace
That drives me insane for the coreIs to build a family within ours.
How do I proceed, as the mother?
How do I let go without a bother?
How do I progress when theirsIs a meeting of minds and hearts?
How do I accept not spoiling
Them whenever I want, coiling
My fear into a bow that never restsFor you never know if their
Choice will truly be happy or queer.©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
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Malak, watching our children grow up is one of the greatest joys that parents will ever experience. No one talks about how hard it is to let them go, though. A mother vows to protect her children for their entire lives, but how can she do that when the children have lives of their own? I’m sure that you will continue to be a safe place for your…read more
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Yes, it’s the hardest thing in the world, at least for me, I keep crying when I talk to their fiancé’s!
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maintain4life submitted a contest entry to
Write a thank-you letter or poem to yourself 6 months, 4 weeks agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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mrmann submitted a contest entry to
Write a poem or letter about your best memory of 2024 7 months agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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James/Maintain4life shared a letter in the
Surviving Addiction group 7 months agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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James/Maintain4life shared a letter in the
Surviving Addiction group 7 months, 1 weeks agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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malakkc shared a letter in the
Current Events group 7 months, 3 weeks agoEnough
Malak Kalmoni ChehabArt, visual art, phography, AI creations
Are all being used to show support
For the massacres of a peoples
Whose homes destruct
Under the sieges
Of bombs,
Drones,
Death,
At,
At the
Hand of
Oppressors,
Colonizers, thieves,
Manipulators, power hungry
For what’s not theirs to have,
But their backing, support permits
Them what no other’s assent mobilizes.
Out of the ruins
An angel rises,
Soars freely,
Peacefully seeking
The innocent souls
Whose lives were
Violently stripped
Cries of injustice
Surge with each
Blast, that’s a death
Knell on family trees.
How do we explain
This terror to babes?
Whose losses are
Insurmountable in oscillation between extremes:
Trauma, loss, violence they’ve
Experienced sooo young.
Do we brush it off?
Do we succumb?
Do we survive?
Do we live
Happily?
Sadly?
No
No
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James/Maintain4life shared a letter in the
Surviving Addiction group 7 months, 3 weeks agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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nickdavis79 submitted a contest entry to
Write a letter to your younger self about a challenge you faced as a child but have since overcome 7 months, 3 weeks agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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mrmann submitted a contest entry to
Write a thank-you letter or poem to yourself 8 months agoThis post is viewable by the Unsealed community only.
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