(These are Toothless' thoughts about the events known to outsiders as the Romantic Flight. He didn't write it himself, of course. Hiccup is pretty sure that this is the way his dragon was thinking:)
I saw you strike my flying-brother-friend.
You're full of anger, eaten up with pride.
Before my spinning, diving flight will end,
These angry things must all be set aside.
I waited 'til I saw a change in you.
"I'm sorry" were the words you had to cry.
But now you're safe; relax, enjoy the view.
Now stretch your arms, reach out, and touch the sky,
You like this land of endless blue expanse,
With hills and dales of clouds below, above,
Where humans look and dream, and dragons dance?
You're here because you please the one I love.
Enjoy this realm of sky that never ends!
These places are for dragons... and their friends.
(Once Hiccup was done transcribing this, he felt like he had to add some words of his own:)
My dragon took my lady for a ride.
I hoped her attitude we might transform.
He didn't try to win her to our side,
But spun and flew as violent as a storm.
And once he'd taken her upon his wing,
I couldn't think of anything to say
But "Thanks for nothing, useless reptile-thing."
I didn't know he knew a better way.
He broke her down before he took her high
And let her glide her hand within a cloud.
When she looked down on Berk, I heard her sigh,
But no one said a single word out loud.
Her mind is changing; anyone can see.
But is her warmth for Toothless or for me?
(When Astrid found out that "the boys" were trying to write poetry, she knew she had no choice but to set the record straight:)
I thought I was a dragon-fighter brave
Until I met a Fury of the Night.
He took me off, with no one there to save.
I couldn't run, I couldn't stand and fight.
I thought it was the end of all of me
Until I softened and apologized.
And then the flight, it altered suddenly.
I'd never been so totally surprised.
He took me to his world, a place of cloud,
Of valleys, soaring castles in the air.
I nearly missed it; I had been so proud,
I'd never known the beauty that was there.
I didn't know, until he came along,
There were so many ways I could be wrong.