About Paliva

The story behind the words

Paliva is a personal creative space where thoughts, emotions and experiences travel a small, familiar road:

Poetry → Lyrics → Music

Nothing here is written to be impressive. It is written to be true — sometimes sad, sometimes joyful — and then, sometimes, sung.

The Creative Process

  1. Feeling
  2. Words
  3. Lyrics
  4. Music
  5. YouTube

About the Author

Ivanka Kupenova-Palavrova
Ivanka Kupenova-PalavrovaWriter of poetry, lyrics and songs.

Paliva began as a notebook that was never meant to be read. Pages written late at night, on trains, in waiting rooms — small attempts to hold a feeling still long enough to look at it.

Over the years those pages became a collection: poetry about love and distance, about memory, about the particular light of an ordinary afternoon. And about days with nothing heavy in them at all — only a reason to laugh. Eventually some of them asked to be sung.

What inspires her
Rain on a window, the silence after a conversation ends, old letters, the sea in winter, the first warm day, and the people who stayed longer than they had to.
How she writes
She writes by hand first, always. A poem is finished when nothing else can be removed from it without the feeling leaving too.
Why poetry
Because some emotions arrive as a shape rather than a sentence, and a poem is the gentlest way to give them one.
Why songs
Because certain words refuse to stay on paper. They want a melody, a breath, a room to echo in.
Why cheerful songs too
Because not everything is written out of pain. Some songs are made for one particular moment — a birthday, the first warm morning, three minutes of dancing in the kitchen — and exist only to keep it.
What music means
Music is the moment a private feeling becomes something that can be shared without explanation. Every lyric, poem and story on this site is written by Paliva. Artificial intelligence is used only as a creative instrument — a way to hear how the words might sound as music.

Start where the words are.