What’s your favorite poem (or line from a poem) that you’ve read in a novel, or the one that sticks with you the most?
While I’m tempted to go with something from Tolkien, the poem that really comes back to me most frequently is from Louis Sachar’s *Holes*:
>”If only, if only,” the woodpecker sighs,
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>”the bark on the tree was just a little bit softer.”
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>While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
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>he cries to the moon, “If only, if only.”
(Be sure to say what book and author the poem’s from, and quote some of the poem!)
by SagebrushandSeafoam
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“Coltaine rattles slow
across the burning land.
The wind howls through the bones
of his hate-ridden command.
Coltaine leads a chain of dogs
ever snapping at his hand.
Coltaine’s fist bleeds the journey home
along rivers of red-soaked sand.
His train howls through his bones
in spiteful reprimand.
Coltaine leads a chain of dogs
ever snapping at his hand.”
Malazan, Book of the Fallen
The entirety of Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.