Celestial Blood Poetry Contests [CLOSED]

Contest #5 Results

We got an overwhelming amount of beautiful and emotional entries for this contest, so it was pretty hard to choose the winners, but after hours of reading through poems, we've decided. 

 Here are the winners:

1st Place - "Our/Anatomy" by illusionboy

This skin, stretched over brittle bones

hides the softest flesh of humankind

and spiderwebs of nerves, and veins aligned,

and the joints in my fingers, church domes.

My nails, funny things, make little crescent moons

in my palm as they embed themselves into this skin,

sipping the blood twisted into a grin.

Little dots of red that gleam in the gloom.

Let me feel your face and the complexities

beneath your skin. Is it like mine?

Let me feel the architecture of your mind.

Your grassy cheeks, your urban jaw of towns and cities.

Cradle my head and feel the tension in my neck-

a rigid tower, stiff and immobile.

Understand my shoulders and the chains they conceal.

Delve deeper, deeper yet.

Explore me beyond just seeing me.

Feel the curvature of my collarbone

and the thread with which it is sewn.

Notice the difference between feel and see.

2nd Place - "The 'ol man and his flowers" by ridhima2807

This poem is in ridhima2807's poetry collection, The Unspoken Words. It was too long to paste here, but Wattpad wouldn't let us put a link either. If you want to read it, please find it in ridhima2807's collection. 

3rd Place - PreciousNinja

Something soft

cradles my

aching heart

In the dead 

of night.

People's Favorite: Congrats to the winner of the People's Favorite Award, Myrrh_aa with her poem "Dear Nathan." 

Here are honorable mentions:

peachandashes with "4 am"

TheMasterAssassin101 with "agape"

yukiyamashita11 with "Graveyard's Love Letter"

Thank you all so much for competing! We had a blast reading your poems, and we can't wait to see what you enter in our future contests!