Honored to have three poems featured in Issue #28.10 of @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social Check them out👇😊: www.trampolinepoetry.com

McLord Selasi’s 'Fugue at 2:17 a.m.' evokes the stillness of insomnia and the ghosts of dreams we live with. A gentle, nocturnal meditation. @selasimclord.bsky.social Read here inksweatandtears.co.uk/mclord-selasi/ #InkSweatandTears #Submission #PoetryCommunity

Somewhere along the line I forgot how to cry. Now I carry grief in molecules of text messages, tucked between timestamps and read receipts, ghosts of words I never sent humming through my phone at night.

"We act like time erases, like the wounds fade with the sun, but every season’s cycle is just a quiet reminder"

Check out my most recent short story on Nenta via www.nentajournal.com/thecolouroft...

Outside the rusty cathedral is a restless cat. I feigned blindness when it cast it's glances towards me. This is exactly what we do when we see a cancer in society that needs to be removed. We do not act. Today, I feigned blindness, tomorrow you'll feign ignorance. Aren't we some immoral cowards?

You live in a bubble so long, you forgot what freedom feels like

I have been afraid too long to stop

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It's not that I enjoy researching, I think I'm just too curious. Maybe it's a neurodivergent thing. Spent half of the day gathering on something I saw off Tiktok😭

I found a piece of gold last night but by the morning, it was coal. Funny how angels keep me away From things that shine, but steal the soul.

I did my very best professor—but in these parts, corruption has crippled the dreams of the youth😔

I wrote this poem last year when the war was going on. I titled it "Prayers from Sabra"🦋🕊️

Here's one of my poems published by "Poets for Science" titled "The Chemistry of Sorrow"😊

When I see a people pleaser put other people first and show signs of resentment, I know what's about to go down

Social/societal programming is real! Until you're able to take a step back and be self-conscious, you'll only get as far as the brainwashed masses.

MEDUSA

Perhaps you can't truly appreciate your freedom because you've never known what freedom is.

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