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Below are the all-time best Pailey Gordon poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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The Music of the Wind

Helicopter seeds
from my maple tree
drift down,
swaying
back 
and 
forth
from the strong branches above.
They all fall around me,
I am encapsulated by the swirling seedlings.
Snug within their warmth,
the wind sends me on my feet.
Dancing with the music of the air 
that is rushing through my hair, 
I inhale the sweet, mellow essence of what life has granted me. 
Then I exhale the words,
"I am thankful for this life and the road, no matter how rocky, has served its purpose".
As I leave this place,
I hum the tune of the masterpiece conducted by the wind
that rustled in this tree.

~5/28/18~

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Non-Existent

your love is like a                 
f
  l
    o
       a
           t
              i 
                n
                   g 
                        lantern

one moment it burns so bright,
it's so warm..
so warm that people step right in

then...

once they loosen their grip
it grows cold,
               small,
               distant....
               almost non-existent 

~3/18/18~

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Dancing In the Mirror

as i am dancing around my tiny bathroom, in my short shorts

i stop for just a fraction of a moment to look in the mirror
i see my reflection staring right back at me

i look closer...

i see how my eyes are as blue as the deep, lovely oceans of Neptune 

i see how my smile is like a light bulb that illuminates a room with the flip of one little switch

i see my stature, i see how it is almost like a flower just sprouting and learning to grow

i see how in the inside of my inner thighs have stretch marks that are rippled like the sea waves on a sandy beach shore

i smile...
and i start to notice all the beautiful little things about me
and i noticed how they combined to make a exquisite masterpiece
as i sit there i wonder why it took me so long to finally think this way about this perfect creation
but it doesn't matter
because now is the time to turn it around
and find self love

i back away from the mirror

and i start dancing

~4-3-18~

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Letter To My Beloved- Contest

In the last few moments before you would slip from my grasp, I would tell you how heartbreak will be too much to bear and my heart will never be whole again, how it will shatter because your love was the glue keeping my pieces together. 
I would tell you how my fingertips will still reach for your warm skin and when I would only feel the cold air on my palms I would only lose hope to find one like you again. 
I would tell you how I will miss the nights that I hear you breathing so softly, how calming your presence is. It has been the only thing to bring me peace.
Maybe I’ll remind you of all the times that we will never forget. The days when we were young and youthful,
Most importantly, I will remind you of how you will never be able to find someone who loves you more than I do. How no one will ever hold you as tight as I do. How it will never feel the same again. 
In that moment you will still leave, I know it. You won’t believe how much I love you until years later when you are married and have children, and your wife will hug you and it just doesn’t feel the same anymore.

~12-14-18~
~Written for The Silent One’s “Last Letter to My Beloved” Poetry Contest

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Last Dance

This poem is based on the "Last Dance". It is a part of native mythology, you essentially get a last dance and death has to wait until you are done with your dance in order to take you. 

---Last Dance---

Death must wait.
Wait for that last step, that last move, that last beat.

Time will stop.
Stop for the time the music flows through your soul and moves your limbs like a puppet on strings. 

One last move.
Move 'till your body can no longer hold the weight of living.

It is time.
Time for your last move. 
Death is waiting, one last move.

-10/20/18-

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Whisper Sweet Nothings

Whisper sweet nothings into my ear
Let the words drip from your soft lips
Like a waterfall 
Falling into a pool of phrases
That have made me enthralled within your presence 
I have became so wrapped within your words 
That i feel like I am held captive 
But yet I feel so safe

As you hold me,
And as I let your sweet talk 
Get wrapped in my brain 
And clasp my heart within your secure arms

Just like how you play your favorite song
And sing as loud as you can
Over and over again
Your sweet nothings will get played on repeat in my head 
For hours even after you leave,
I will picture the moments we could be together if you could have stayed
Even if it meant just a couple more seconds 
But as i think about it 
I will never be satisfied 
Unless I give you a kiss goodnight 
And fall asleep within your grasp
When i can feel your breathing on my neck 
So light 
So subtle 
And then in the moment I will be reminded about how in love I am with you
But for now I will make the time we have together count
To the very last second

~11-14-17~
~Won 1st Place in Julie Leigh Rodeheaver's 'Whisper Sweet Nothings' Poem Contest~

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I Wish I Knew You When I Was Young

I wish I knew you when I was young
So I could show you what love truly is
Before you were hurt by so many others
Who used you as if you were only an object, 
Willing to be tossed around like you were only a rag doll
But only if they had time to examine your soul 
And take time to know who you are
Then they would have taken the chance they had 
To love you to every last bit they contained

But now as I hold your broken soul in my arms
As I slowly piece your beautiful heart back together 
I now regret not knowing you when I was young
Because if I knew you then
I would have never had to piece you back together
Because you would have still been whole

~11-19-17~ 
~Written for the "I Wish I Knew You When I Was Young" Contest 
Sponsored by:  Julie Leigh Rodeheaver ~
~Also entered in the 'Choose a Topic' Contest as option A- Love and Romance~

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You, and Only You

You, and only you
That's all I want
All I would ever need

I'm sure you could find someone more then I will ever be
and yet you choose to stay with me

Even in the rain
you put it in my brain
that you love me and only me
but how could that be?

Because there are girls who are prettier
and wittier
and seem to have everything together
but I always change, like the weather

I was surprised when you decided to stay 
even on the grey days
and the days where I just sit and cry 
you come and lay with me and stay,
and in that moment I don't ever want you to leave

So please don't leave 
but I need my room to breathe
I need you 
so feed me with your love, 
all you have, 
so for one little moment 
I don't need to worry
about you leaving me 
for one of those girls 
who have no personality
so in reality
I say with all my vocality 
Please just stay.....

~September, 23~

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I Will Move On

When I first heard this my heart stopped
I almost dropped 
I didn't believe it
but at the same time
I had this feeling
but I've been healing since then

Some days you treated me like a queen
even if we were only teens.
But some days you would say words that hurt
and you would treat me like dirt
and throw me on the curb 
but it didn't seem to disturb you

You loved me
or so I thought
even if we fought 
but I was taught
to give second chances, 
I gave too many of those
because I swore you would change
but you took a vange 
home instead

You knew it was wrong
but I remained strong
because I knew you messed up
I hope you know you that. 
Bringing that girl to bed
would be the end...
of us... 

I heard the news from other then you 
I felt like breaking into two
But I will move on, 
I have came upon a new beginning, 
that's how I know I'm winning. 

And we both know who is losing..
you...
You are losing because you lost me

~September, 24~

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Heart-Broken Into Pieces

You left me there
Alone 
For my heart to tear
On my own
I shouldn’t have shown
How hurt I was
But the smell of your cologne 
Was still so fixed into my mind,
Entwined within every cell of my body 
Because I thought nobody could come between us
Until that girl you brought to bed 
Who looked good at a club

She probably had a cute curl in her hair
That dangled perfectly down her slim shoulders
And a pearl
That made her eyes look calm like the deepest oceans
But that shouldn’t have mattered
Because if you loved me 
You wouldn’t left me as shattered as glass,
Into little pieces
And now whenever someone tries to put me together
They will hurt themselves 
Cutting themselves on my razor edges
Most will give up at this point 
But the ones who stay
They will not find all of them
Because there are too many pieces to repair
All because of a stupid affair

~10-13-17~
-Made to enter contest sponsored by Broken Wings-