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.
About: Ridhima is 16 years old and she is a budding poet from India. She started writing 2½ years ago. She writes long narrative poems on observations, life, struggles and sometimes imagination.
3rd Place - PreciousNinja
Something soft
cradles my
aching heart
In the dead
of night.
About: Precious is a young writer who loves art.
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Celestial Blood Poetry Contests: Winner's Anthology
PoetryCelestial Blood Literary Magazine is running weekly poetry contests. For more information, check out our contest book. Here is a collection of all the first place poems entered into our contests. Also, please take a moment to consider to submitting...
