Young Writers Society

but misfit puzzles collapse and lightbulbs scream until the cardboard men stop you from singing.

Yes. That's all one line. From Niteowl's Nest

"the milky way is a path for refugee suns."
From my poem "Rockets", which is not posted here. But my poetry blog takes its name from that line!

@Adnamarine, does it have to be lines from NaPo poems, or can ANY previous poem work?

In that case, I retract my previous submission. Here we go:

because heroes wear camouflage

@Audy it can be from any poem you have ever written ever (before this competition)!

Can we submit more than one line?

these are memories, and we humans wear them like silver rings

from Blood

@SparkToFlame just one line. The idea, or hope, is that it is your absolute most favorite line you have written--which can definitely be a tough choice.

Probably my favourite,
"I shall play the Muse's Frankenstein,"
A poem about drawing, and bringing imagination to life. In the end the narrator leaves the paper blank as the potential of the white paper was better than what he could actually draw.

i've been walking in frosted dreams and you haunt them
--i loved you four hundred and seventy days

Alongside weary branches shaking off their painted hands

From Autumn Villanelle

The only poem I've ever written…apart from a weird one about Rapunzel.

I feel this is a line that different people interpret in different ways.

Home is where I went missing from

"...Where the dandelions roar..."
From: The Demise of Captain Mar McCaw

"then I shall stay the monster under your bed and eat your nightmares away."

from Ka! Ta! Na!