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Nova Blossoms
She was the first thought. Waking. Walking in the void. Image or idol or maybe a whisper. Voices. A melody across the deep. And so he...

Paul Clive
Dec 13, 20221 min read
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Anymore
Violins And out from under Instruments Of droning thunder While I wonder Piling blunders Windows vacant Hungry hollows Vanished or...

Paul Clive
Dec 1, 20221 min read
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Over and Under
Mouth agape Hungry for Heaven's wrath Headlong with nightmares Overflowing Defiant I contrive these Other worlds to thrive in Dreams left...

Paul Clive
Nov 17, 20222 min read
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Origami Heart
Origami Heart Too bright beyond these gates Collecting dust I can see the light Feel the warmth Taste the earth Head held down...

Paul Clive
Nov 7, 20222 min read
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All Bark
Why do we continue fighting? Life seems to want to find a way, to preserve itself, to keep us going even when we feel like giving up. Is...

Paul Clive
Nov 3, 20221 min read
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Enough
Tearing at strands Disposable tendrils Digits pressured digging Dipped deeply in marrow This wick will never light again Standing in the...

Paul Clive
Oct 19, 20221 min read
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Fail to Hate
Fail to Hate Devoured in vines Skies clad in iron Roses like wires Rusted but still bolted down Neglected aches Still stitches for days...

Paul Clive
Oct 11, 20221 min read
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One of Them
The omens move without words Like water Across the sky From the East Fire in the mouth And from the ending A new beginning A broken bow...

Paul Clive
Oct 5, 20222 min read
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Fever Pitch Witching Hour
Fever Pitch Fever pitching Voices rising Season for Witching Toiling, boiling, brewing Klaxons blaring, houses burning Stirred up all...

Paul Clive
Sep 25, 20222 min read
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Mist Taken
Mist Taken A wisp and nothing else Filled up with regrets Fretting with the best of them Melancholy and cut off Shelves all filled the...

Paul Clive
Sep 21, 20221 min read
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Watchers At Midnight
On and off again during my life there has been the feeling that things are about to combust, fall apart, or all come crashing down....

Paul Clive
Sep 12, 20222 min read
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Ingredients
Sometimes we mix ourselves a potion of memory and regret and find ourselves wondering what might have been. There is something a bit like...

Paul Clive
Sep 8, 20222 min read
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Loam Behold
LOAM Minutes run backward Scatter and skedaddle Straddling midnight hell bent Back way far past the one My eyes have been kept open Past...

Paul Clive
Sep 3, 20221 min read
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A Pilgrim's Doubt
Moon-dripped reflections Fallen from favor The weight on these shoulders Still gazing at navels Plucking at strings In ivory chambers, I...

Paul Clive
Aug 30, 20222 min read
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A River With No Mouth
Patience with ourselves and others is important. You never know what battles people are fighting whether they are in the real world or in...

Paul Clive
Aug 15, 20222 min read
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Perhaps Not
Feeling pretty done with Summer... Tired of the heat Craggy arid landscape You can look out over what is left And see where water ran...

Paul Clive
Aug 10, 20221 min read
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Trains (Take the L)
Sometimes in life you have to take a loss. It can be hard when our feelings seem meaningless. We get caught in trains of thought,...

Paul Clive
Jul 16, 20222 min read
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Moth Man
Legend. Sometimes our feelings can seem so meaningless in the grand scheme of things. We aren't taken seriously, our voices aren't heard,...

Paul Clive
Jul 3, 20221 min read
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Chasing the Fog
Born here upside down Branches breaking skin Kin to every wolf Child of every sin Timid on the rooftops Colors coalesce Rushing for the...

Paul Clive
Jun 23, 20221 min read
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Beneath Black Skies
Here at the end of all things... Let It All Be Undone A ponderous ocean of cosmic canyons Cavernous crags reaching toward infinity Never...

Paul Clive
Jun 16, 20221 min read
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