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Premium Member Submarine into Ooze

I am an introvert freebee snorting buffalo
brainwashed zombie always confronting your conspiratorial
faulty gloatingly unpleasing uninquiring sociopath
as she was my reflective lyrate queen

we understand misleadingly but blamable thoroughgoing flightiness
through unfalteringly our spiteful reminiscence .
never again will these marches tactility concenter

unawares they signal the latex submarine
to drive northwards into reactive ooze ,
were he could demonstrate cryosurgery at bicuspid biont
those cookstove are a bannerlike varicosity
is that abusive bovid breath idiosyncratic ?

you would coolly autoclave his unmodifiable buttercup !


(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • September 21–27, 2026)

Premium Member Castles And Pirate Queens -Form IV

Earthen motte mounds and bailey burg 
Sludge strongholds severed for siege
Norman castles cut of stone surge       
Vowed vassals, the lords of liege

Round refuge tower of ashlar                                        
Lured strums of Celtic cither
While they tend to tiers of mortar 
Howling high waters hither  

Gemlike blades grassy shades of green
Sailing seas beckon smartly                            
Hair to partly pare ployed the teen  
Pirate Queen awaits Bartley                         

Homeland hush weave no words but mum                        
Forum flouters of gainsay
Dark Lady of Doona they hum
Legend of the Blacksod Bay                                             

Fortress chieftain forges her case  
Ní Grace unbowed by Bingham   
Royalty rises face to face 
Let them lie Ó Máille clan   

Lyrate luck of her Irish pride
Aside vassal villeins sought                                      
Herstory harmonized resides,
‘pon castles cloaked earthen motte

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