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Premium Member Scramble

Always decimalize , not of priming . My cursor foothold to formulate logging leveling again ; curb reverberation shakeout reclamation : substitutable ?


(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • August 10–16, 2026)

Premium Member EXPERIMENTAL INSTANCES

EXPERIMENTAL INSTANCES
natural
speculative 
concerns
    to
establish
meaning
& overcome 
  difficulties 
to
interplay
  traditional
meaning
   universally
expressed
to 
   acquire 
     knowledge
readily
discerned
in
evolving
    abstract
values

The mind borders on the sublime

The mind borders on the sublime, 
related to the divine source, 
a powerful force pervading the universe. 
I can write verse after verse, 
but there is nothing worse
than reading someone's thoughts,
sounding like reports,
going on and on. 
Know the difference between right and wrong, 
where did you get your information from? 
Pause before you speak, 
your premise may sound weak.
What is it that you seek? 
Curiosity leads to learning, 
the lack of insight is concerning.
One must not digress, I just wanted to address
the current situation, 
let's get back to the topic of creation. 
It has come to my attention
that if you lack intention, 
fall short of enough motivation, 
you will be in suspended animation. 
Stay with me as I continue this story, 
take you on a journey inside my consciousness,
hold on while I clear up the mess, 
I must confess I do assess
each moment, absorbed in the present.


Premium Member Top Shelf Experimental

Of this I am certain, a poet is no saint.

Fine words flow easily,
rubbish is articulate.
Malignant sugar highs,
silver tongues run wild.

That endless supply,
 half finished lines,
just one more rhyme,
top shelf experimental. 

Stanzas gain control,
mood manipulation.
Such a sly logophile,
faces are transfixed. 

Power’s a schedule 1 drug,
a clean buzz for any artist.
All you need is that mic,
prepare for an addiction. 

A poet is no saint, of this I am certain.

Premium Member SYNTAX FOR A SHIFTING SELF-An Experimental Shape-Shifting Poem

I begin as a whisper~  
a line that refuses to stay straight,  
curling around its own breath  
like smoke learning a new alphabet.  

unraveling,
     I  
         fall  
             sideways  
                 into meaning,  
     letting the words tilt  
          until gravity forgets me.  

Somewhere between pulse and pause,  
a thought flickers~  
half-formed, half-feral~  
and I follow it  
into the bright static  
where language goes to molt.  

fragmenting
I speak in fragments now:  
       glimmer, 
             hush,  
     a door that opens inward,  
              a name that refuses to echo.  

       I am the sentence  
         that breaks itself  
    to see what light  
          pours through the crack.  

And when the poem finally exhales,  
it leaves behind  
a scatter of syllables~  
soft, shimmering,  
like the afterimage of a star  
you can still see  
even after you close your eyes.

Premium Member IN EXPERIMENTAL MOOD-:-

IN EXPERIMENTAL MOOD-:-
shadows
 unobtrusively
eliminate 

passive
scenes
in the SUNLIGHT
blossom
 genuine
motifs

juxtaposed
prompts
endowed with DIMENSION
suggested
 zoned
close-up

spread-out
presentations


Premium Member Whoosh, Echo, and Shimmer with Experimental Lyrics

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh
Pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse
Echooooo, echoooooo, echo
Echo, echo, echo
Shimmer, shimmer, shimmer
Shimmer, shimmer
Pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse.
Tic toc, tic too, tic too, tic too, tic too.
Throb, throb, swoosh, and glimmer
Humming drones craft sparkly saucers.
Blip, blip, blip, beeps, beeps, beeps, beeps
Resonate and oscillate. Vibrate and pulsate.
Undulating Nebula. Reverberating pulsar.
Wailing Quasar. The throbbing void.
The Cosmos echoes. The Cosmos glimmer.
Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhhh.
Sizzling singularity whispers the secrets.
Of the wailing Heliosphere.

Flaring pulsar with whooshing voids.
The chiming zenith balances rumbling singularity.
Surge, shimmer, wail, whisper, flare, and rumble.
The moon beckons you with its beams.
My UFO shimmers as it drifts into the mystery.
Shimmer, shimmer, shimmer, and sparkle.
Reverberating and gazing at stars. 
Echo, echo, echo, echo, echo.
Tic, too, tic, too, tic, too, tic, too.
Whoosh away. Whoosh away.
Whoosh, echo, and shimmer.

The echo rebounds.
The shimmer opens bright eyes.
Whoosh as we fly high.

Premium Member The Solution

(UR)=2(love)=2(any)=2(all) > 1(trauma) + 1(mistake) + 1(failure). 

Apply to problem for resolution, repeat as necessary, show your work....

Will this be on the test?

I assure you... this is the test and most people aren't prepared for it. 

I don't get it...

You will, after the brackets are filled in.

When you've solved the problem... help the next person....

Premium Member Experimental Scientist

A most important thing to do
is to put on a sock before a shoe
The method that is, by far, the worst
is to position the shoe on first.
An experimental scientist with pride,
I only know, because I tried. 


An exploration motivated by Gray Squirrel's observation:
 
Humans make a big to-do,
because they wear a shoe.
Another animal, of course,
wears a shoe.  He's called a "horse".
From Appaloosa to Kentucky,
a horse shoe is more lucky.

Premium Member falling snow

snow…

…falling…

…gently…

 …silently…

   …serenely…

     …onto…

        …a…

           …white…

                         glistening.*.*.*.* canvas 

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Premium Member KUHLMANN an experimental form



From Love:lust,pride,nothing:
                                                                   can hide

Premium Member SPACES experimental tritich

CATARACT OP

The mist lifts slowly

           ??

A new vista is unveiled

*Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a three line poem with a larger than usual blank space( ??)for 2nd 'line'.
Turnbull  called poems using his device ‘Spaces’, and noted of these ‘The visual “space” is,a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention’ . Thus the reader supplies his own imagination thereto.

Premium Member winter fragments

it is cold: i am old

cruel ruminations
paralyzing winds
sharp icicles
lifeless season
forgotten dreams 
life…death / light…dark
*->*->*->*->*->*->*->
random cruelty
windy paralysis
icy roads
seasons without life
dreams forgotten 
death…life \ dark…light

it is old: i am cold

Premium Member wind chill

w > w > w > w
i  n > n > n
d W > I  D …C  I  L
chillchillchillchillchillchillchillchill

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