Oh my gosh guys! That's all I can say!

The entries for this contest were amazing! Each entry gave me chills as I read and some actually made my heart race a little! Thank you to all who entered, choosing the winner was not an easy task!

But here they are, the winners:

| T H I R D P L A C E |

| Untitled |

By blackbeautychi

its dark....very dark

not a sound to be heard...

take a few steps forward.....

darkness consumes any given images

only the sounds of a broken spirit await you

Are you scared?

does your fear make you see the unseen?

does your anxiety make you hear the faded screams?

do your insecurities make you take 10 steps back ?

come closer and look deep into the darkness

do you see what i see?

funny isnt it ?its not as big as you expected or as hairy as you anticipated ...no?dont be so sure..

our worst nightmares hang around the light

take one more step ...

breath...

tears begin to roll down your cheeks and

in a heartbeat.. you turn

away from the mirror afraid of what would happen next

SO MENY CHILLS OH MY GOSH. This poem was chilling, the tension and surprise ending totally won me over. A perfect mix of fear and sadness.

| S E C O N D P L A C E |

| Call Me Hell |

By FaeEvermore

She's screaming and yelling

With a broken, shattered heart

She's yelling and screaming

While her life falls apart

There are arguments and threats

She'll listen without a word

There are threats and arguments

So many, too many, she has heard

There is silence and verbal violence

Words bruise her skin more than a fist can

There is verbal violence and silence

Once the tongues fell quiet, her tears ran

There were tears and fears

She screams silently; she'll cry

There were fears and tears

She'll wait for the rage to die

When does it end? When does it stop?

She can't just take this anymore

When does this stop? When does this end?

What does she go on living for?

She's breaking and faking

That isn't a real smile

She's faking and breaking

She must escape to silence of her brain for awhile

She's sleeping and weeping

Will this torture ever come to an end?

She's weeping and sleeping

Must she continue to pretend?

She's lying and crying

I won't tell you what happened there

She's crying and lying

The signs, you saw them, were everywhere.

I'm voiceless and darkness

Deep in her eyes you can see my gloom

I'm darkness and voiceless.

She, with my company, shall feel alone with people crowding the room

I'm the ghost and she is my host

When I'm gone she'll be just a shell

She was my host and I'm the ghost

And you, my friend, can call me Hell

The rhymes for this were to perfect, and the images it brought up were both heartbreaking and  breathtaking. Beautifully done.  

| F I R S T P L A C E |

| Impossibilities |

By orangemerald

I don't want my tears and rips

To shred you all to burning strips.

I'm a tarnished dragon, a rusted beast,

I am beautiful, I am hideous,

Strong, but mostly weak.

They say I breathe fire or ice,

Or poison gas, but the ones who knew,

Their lives didn't last...

And I try to fly away

Away from the paper birds

I envy so much that my ribbon wind

Chokes them in their wake.

But my wings aren't golden silk

Like they think, no, they're more of

A plastic woven with ink

Which I'm stained with

In ripples deep

Beneath my scales which are lead

And not flakes from the sun

And beneath my skin which is

Not smooth but mangled wires

Twisted undone.

I've snipped a life

Like a loose stray thread

I've cracked open hearts

Just like they were always dead

I've sealed smiles

In fingerprinted tape

I've tortured words to pieces

Before they could break

I've clawed feelings

In gashes torn

I've bled on memories

Stinging and worn.

Now I don't wish these things to be

Unless I do them to a somebody--

Me--because

I'd rather have my

Skin and soul

Peeled back raw like the smoldering

Petals of a crumbling rose.

I'm a dragon and don't you know...

Dragons cast shadows

Wherever they go.

So save yourselves.

I don't want my tears and rips

To shred you all to burning strips.

I am in love with your poetry. I really am. The mix of words sums of such a lovely picture and the words flow so nicely together. Enter your poetry in a official contest or something. Because its great.

| HONERABLE MENTIONS |

blueclaw Hopelessromantic and multidealogist

Congrats to the winners! If you have been promised a cover/etc. as a prize please contact me so that I can make you one (if you even want one that is).

The next contest will be posted tomorrow morning!

Stay lovely✨