One-line Poetry Competition!

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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
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo Da Vinci

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"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!
"So many poems growing outta them they're practically a poet-tree"
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@Adnamarine, does it have to be lines from NaPo poems, or can ANY previous poem work?




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

because heroes wear camouflage
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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@Audy it can be from any poem you have ever written ever (before this competition)!
"Half the time the poem writes me." ~Meshugenah




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"...leave the coffin open, I'm taphephobic."
You either worship something higher than yourself or end up worshiping yourself

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Can we submit more than one line?
hush, my sweet
these tornadoes are for you


-Richard Siken


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

from Blood
I am a forest fire and an ocean, and I will burn you just as much
as I will drown everything you have inside.
-Shinji Moon


I am the property of Rydia, please return me to her ship.




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@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.
"Half the time the poem writes me." ~Meshugenah




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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.
You know that studded leather armour in films? Nobody wore that. I mean, how would metal studs improve leather armour?




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i've been walking in frosted dreams and you haunt them
--i loved you four hundred and seventy days
hush, my sweet
these tornadoes are for you


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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.
"There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise."




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:smt024 I feel this is a line that different people interpret in different ways.

Home is where I went missing from
If Novels are a bucket of imagination, Short story is a bucket of imagination made to fit a mug.




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"...Where the dandelions roar..."
From: The Demise of Captain Mar McCaw
Instead, he said, Brother! I know your hunger.
To this, the Wolf answered, Lo!

-Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses




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

from Ka! Ta! Na!
Oh, I wish I was punk-rocker with flowers in my hair.



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