By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Well done is better than well said.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Only the educated are free.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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.