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New Hell
How much more righteous I would be Coming on black-tipped wings With eyes that shine with mourning With sword red-tipped with wrath How...

Paul Clive
Oct 92 min read
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Sunset
How quickly this dissolved With fires lit by gemstone wit And perspectives evolved Animated, yet left cold Thumbs unopposed to traveling...

Paul Clive
Aug 191 min read
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A Funeral For All Mankind
I pocketed the devil's dice And looked out upon uneasy streets Where people ran like rivers Into the deep dystopian weeds Slow burned and...

Paul Clive
Sep 19, 20242 min read
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Ezekiel
Uplifted wings of living beings
Creatures turned again like wheels
Folded spaces, in-betweens
Spun like webs where thunder reels

Paul Clive
Aug 8, 20241 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Upside
Life is full of ups and downs, whether you are struggling or not, whether you are healthy or not. Even when things are going well it can...

Paul Clive
Apr 24, 20222 min read
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Outcast, Outlast
There are a lot of different factors that go into determining who we are and how we live our lives. Where we are born, who are parents...

Paul Clive
Mar 15, 20222 min read
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Perfect Distortions
As we grow older memories distort, growing more exaggeratedly vivid in some ways, more dull in others. Music and smell are the two things...

Paul Clive
Feb 8, 20221 min read
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Forgot
Sometimes things burn brightly for a time but are not meant to be permanent fixtures. Some are shooting stars and are not meant to be...

Paul Clive
Jan 21, 20221 min read
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Mazes and Mistakes
So much of our world is manufactured, if not by the political and financial forces around us than by our own minds. We sometimes get lost...

Paul Clive
Dec 21, 20211 min read
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Goosebumps
Love is like a force of nature. No matter how long humanity has existed we have had different ways of symbolizing love. Across endless...

Paul Clive
Oct 30, 20211 min read
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