Celestial Blood Poetry Contests [CLOSED]

Contest #4 Results

Here are the results for the fourth contest! You guys did fantastic, as always!

1st Place - "cyanide" by MasterAssassin101

I bite into this acidic and red apple

only to fall into its clutches and let the fermented crystals

make their way around my veins.

I bet you can see them moving

around and bulging out against my skin.

I stumble upon a glass case, one that entraps me

so that I can face my irreversible fate.

Cyanide gas is now smoking out the confined space,

leaving me to swallow what oxygen I have left.

The dense fog smells like bitter almonds,

and it makes my head do roller coaster loops.

I start to breathe rapidly but my lungs

have given up on me.

I can feel my heart rate getting slower

and I try to rip myself free of these confined rags

but they are attached to me, I can't get them off.

Air is not flowing throughout my gears,

my system is shutting down.

I gape for any sort of breath,

but only end up inhaling the pasty yellow mist.

For a moment, everything is silent,

I can't seem to make a sound.

My mind knows that I'm in my last moments,

but I am overwhelmed by this euphoric feeling.

Finally in the hands of the sweet release of death.

2nd Place - "Asthmatic" by Violetxrose1235

Calm.

Calm, for a moment. Just a moment. The air is still, the senses filled.
It seems endless, a peaceful calm. The silence before the storm. Maybe moments, maybe hours.

It lasts until the first twitch.
Suddenly my breath begins to hitch, my jaw captures as I choke on nothing. Burning inside my throat, my body afloat.
My eyes roll before going hazy.

Distant.

Everything around me seems too crazy, my muscles lock and it gets harder to beat the clock. My life jerks as voices echo for me to return.
I'm lost in the fit, erupting into trembles and quakes my memories could be fake.

Sometimes a moment, maybe an hour.
The shaking doesn't cease but does devour, I hear the voices of alarm try and calm.
I'm struggling now,
breathing seems too far.
My tongue turns blue at the tip as I fight for control in this fit.

My nose fills with scents of another time, something like lime.
I feel my fingers claw around, scratching at the ground.
My heart is racing, my mind obliterating. I feel my lungs about to collapse.

Calm.
The storm has passed. I shake out of my fit and come back to the world I cast.
My seizure has ended.
My life will last.

3rd Place - "Breaking Point" by TonyTervin

Storm is over but I can still feel the thunder

Rumbling in my limbs, torso, making my heart race quicker

Ashy clouds in the sky making me feel under

Rattling unsettling thoughts give me a quiver

Unaware what the future holds

Everything seems out of space

Every feeling seems out of place

Nothing but a fuzzy blur of confusion

Air saturated with despondency

Assimilating what little I have in me

HOPE

Trying so hard to breathe a word to someone

To only end up choking in my own disappointments

Drowning in my misery

Grasping for help

Nobody seems to take notice of my cries and shouts

To relieve me of this trouble

Yet again, am in my own bubble

Disoriented,

Broken soul,

Yearning for the sunlight to wound its way in the mangled spirit

Heal the invisible scars

Wearing me down to the core

Wondering what I even live for.

People's Favorite: For this round, we had a tie!

The winners of People's Favorite are Riodejenerio with "Over" and TonyTervin with "Breaking Point."

Honorable Mentions

"Lung Holes" by S-Ingrate

"Glorification" by Alvin767

"Attack" by b_rogue