Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
After a storm comes a calm.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
I can, therefore I am.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.