Favorite Poetry, ??? Options

[Ibis]

Since so many people are returning to school, I thought perhaps poetry might come up in English/Lit classes. Would you like to share some of yours with us? I found this one in Kilaeil's Signature at TES, that's all I know about it.

~Kilaeil~

"...From the east comes a ship, Loke holds the oar
A demon army with swords that rip, shall join the final war
The army of the dead arrives, Heimdall blows his horn
Calling Gods out to die, before the world can be reborn..."

Maybe we should include favorite famous quotes as well, here's one of mine:

"Whatever does not kill us, only serves to make us stronger ..." Nietzsche = and I first became aware of this quote while watching the movie 'Conan' starring Arnold Swartzenegger.

[treydog]

If I must inflict my poetry on others, I will simply resurrect the following from the "Post Your Poetry" thread. It is "about" something that anyone who lives in the Southern U.S. should recognize.

Green Violence

Transplanted, as were our forebears
Finding new life in the red clay
A manic growth that holds us
In the summer heat
That draws us back when we wander

It softens and hides the shapes of
The hills, as our accent softens our words
And conceals the iron underneath
An explosion of green violence,
Overwhelming and unstoppable as our passions
Makes fantasy monsters of trees whose ancestors
Witnessed true monstrosity

It covers all equally-
The groundhog burrow and the slave shack
The Chevrolet Grandma and Grandpa drove to
Ringgold to get married
Not a native, yet inseparable from
Our image of ourselves
A part of us now,
That covers all, forgives all, grows as our
Children grow,
Not always as we wish, but as it must
Climbing too high, spreading too far, reaching through
The fences we build.