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Tempest's Edge
Pulling at the cosmic roots I find the river calling I fall into the Heaven's wrath I hunger for a ruling Setting fire to discipline I...

Paul Clive
Jul 12, 20231 min read
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Sinking In
SINKING IN Tell me what these pieces mean Intrusive thoughts and sordid dreams Truths uncovered in our sleep Urges lurking underneath...

Paul Clive
Jul 7, 20231 min read
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Nineteen Ninety One
I had an idea for a horror story called 1991 but just ended up writing a poem instead, enjoy: 1991 The year horror takes shape another...

Paul Clive
Jun 25, 20231 min read
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Pummeling Apocalypses
A transitive resistance Rubber-banding there and back again With dangerous business Put on back burners lit Burning these eternities...

Paul Clive
Jun 22, 20231 min read
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Simulacrum
Weeping at the edge of the river Meet me at the mountain pass Running over-eager fingers Through this tangled traveling matte Jaws...

Paul Clive
Jun 9, 20231 min read
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Rodeo
Moving into the light With nothing in reserve Sorrows and the void Atoms and the dark Split between these numbing moments Boredom and the...

Paul Clive
May 31, 20231 min read
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The Lucky One
I just fall apart Watch it all collapse Crumbling Burning down Ashes overhead Hurting lungs Hardly breathing But still crying out Wishing...

Paul Clive
May 20, 20231 min read
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Wholehearted
Wholehearted You are a star forever blooming A galaxy unfurling Super nova looming A glowing cosmic rarity Your beauty incalculable With...

Paul Clive
May 14, 20231 min read
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Oops, All Abyss!
God you just don't know Hollow like the wind Feeling this again Menace on the edge Caught by collars stiff With no dollars to tip Scarcity And not a drop to drink I'd kiss the sky And say goodbye Already certain of What the world might think Better off without Chapped and chipped Dehydrated And left anything but missed Still dreaming of a time without Molded as a child Filled with naught but doubt This disbelief an easy draught Cutting a jig Still aware of how thin This armor

Paul Clive
Apr 20, 20231 min read
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No Notes
10/10, No Notes Webs tangled like wires, tethered Cut against and then gnawed through Eyes dried out, cerebral spinning Brain without the...

Paul Clive
Apr 14, 20231 min read
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The Fences
Life is full of ups and downs but sometimes it's also full of indifference, numbness. Sometimes it seems like no matter what we do we...

Paul Clive
Apr 7, 20232 min read
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Barbarian
Ligaments And limb by limb Fresher air Intimate Caught in actions Adrenal Flying Colors Bleeding down Pressed against the night Swallowing Without self-control Gasping in prayer Out of straws to grasp I lower melancholy strings To melodies I dance Hung like marionettes Growing discordance Glowering Moon Spread with a vengeance Never singing out Made of tougher stuff Stones out on the wall Bones of giants lost By a Philistine repaired Such elegant music Hunting the twang Memor

Paul Clive
Mar 28, 20231 min read
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Lash or Leash
Self-control asleep at the wheel Buried in the kind of task That carries only a sick appeal Back to sleep At arms length Never withheld...

Paul Clive
Mar 23, 20231 min read
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Atlantis
Blasphemous I rearrange these stones Foolish to believe We were cut from the same quarry Simultaneous The damage caused A bright star...

Paul Clive
Mar 14, 20231 min read
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The Witch House
Skittering ghosts Expressionist lines Down darker and deeper Find where it lies Sinking solemnity Inking this against my skin Making...

Paul Clive
Mar 4, 20231 min read
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Quicksand
Deimos and Phobos I can barely breathe Suffocating in Quicksand Underneath my skin Sundered secrets caught in throats Fires burning under...

Paul Clive
Feb 17, 20231 min read
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Be Kind, Rewind
The Rewound Heart Bleeding backwards Into a dying sun Waning crescent Descending crescendo Cascading energetic cycles Data still backing...

Paul Clive
Feb 9, 20231 min read
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Ready to Fall
Like a ton of bricks Like a waterfall Like an avalanche Just say the word I gather my dry heart Like sticks primed for the kindling I...

Paul Clive
Feb 8, 20231 min read
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Lying, Still
I just listen to the wind These old and tired branches Calling through the trees A whispering in my bones I call that quiet cold my home...

Paul Clive
Jan 30, 20231 min read
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Luminous Threads
It can sometimes feel like the fire is going out. Run down. Lost. The world has no passion or color left in it. It's all been worn down...

Paul Clive
Jan 21, 20232 min read
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