Most people stay away from poetry while it is approached by the few. For those few people, it took them more time to write poems rather than to read. Most of them are used to reading poems by extensive-reading or skimming instead of intensive-reading or studying. Fewer and fewer people, like bees, gather the special experience and understanding from personal reading, and make them into a kind of “honey” which is easy to taste and digest for most people. I am going to be such a little bee.
Poems reading is so important
None of a writing life starts up without the reading. Poets once were the people who knew nothing about poetry. But, one day, they accidentally opened the wardrobe’s door of interest when they were reading, and went into the Narnia of poetry finally. Poems reading is so important.
Someone goes to the gym, and someone reads poems. They are both serious at first, and have a fruitful harvest in the end. Poems reading not only exercises the muscles of our thought, but also builds up the bones of our soul. It is a word game with riddles waiting for readers to decipher and an adventure in which everyone could spread the wings of imagination. A soul can shake hands with another soul in a poem, and a world wakes up in another world when Jake becomes Avata. Poems reading is so important.
By reading, the readers bring a work to life in which the spiritual power could be communicated from one heart to another. A work without a second reader(except the author) seems like a battery without any circuit outside, so the current will never flow despite it is a new one fulling of energy. Conversely, the more readers a work has, the more vigorous and longer it lives. When people read it again and again, the spirit of the author living in the work revives again and again. With spreading widely through time and space, beyond race and culture, it not only flows into readers’ hearts like a brook, but also runs into the ocean of spiritual wealth of mankind. Every reader participates in this creation. Poems reading is so important.
I believe, I can do, I hope for
Poems are not Yeti in the Himalayas, on the contrary we can get a large number of works by web search. But, for poets, the problem is that they are always short of readers rather than the confidants. For the people far from the poetry, what do they all lack? A part of them thought it’s too difficult to find what they need in poetry, and others thought what they need is not in poetry. Auguste Rodin said:“Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her.”These eyes are both the ability to discover the beauty, and the desire to chase the beauty.
It’s romantic to meet a favorite poem as if a traveler picks up a wild fruit on the roadside when he is thirsty. Reading a fantastic poem is as sweet as tasting a juicy fruit. Today, for poetry, if works as the vegetables and fruits could be put into some showcase after carefully selected, even in the supermarket and convenience store, this long-lost surprise will still happen. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” No matter in the past or at present, there is always a wonderful ocean adventure waiting for Pi and his Richard Parker, and there are always Hobbits who follow the call of duty and march forward courageously. Above desire and consumption, we have some nobler dreams — This is what I believe.
Certainly, poems will not be labeled with nutrition facts, calories and suitable group, and placed on the shelves of store with beautiful advertising signs like promotional items for attracting customers’ eyes. But if someone can properly present the interest and beauty of those works, as some movie commentary with a little spoiler on the YouTube, it will help more people to read them easily. Is the best commentary or appreciation the best advertisement for a poem? An oil lamp can light another — This is what I can do.
“Poems writing is interesting.” “Poems writing is not easy.” “Poems writing is creation.” Actually, the same is true of poems reading. As Buddha’s words—”a world in a wild flower”, there is a world in every poem. Reading a poem is a challenging time-space travel in this world, even if it is always one person’s adventure. But, if the adventure could be shown as the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey or Interstellar, that must be wonderful — This is what I hope for.
No child would like to see sleeping beauty waiting more than thousands of years for a prince’s kiss, and no lover of poetry wants his beloved works to be rusty antiques, laying on the seabed solitarily. I am a man who loves poetry by writing and reading. I collect the happiness and thinking of reading poems into this collection, Read Poems Alone, and share our love for poetry, life, and the world with everyone.
Let’s read! Let the afloat soul lands on the peaceful ground.
世人中，远诗者多，近诗者少。近诗的人中，写诗者多，读诗者少。读诗的人中，泛读、略读者多，精读、研读者少——在这些人当中，能够像蜜蜂那样，将自己独特的阅读体验和领悟采撷出来，酿成便于他人品尝和吸收的“蜂蜜”的，则少之又少了。我愿意做一只这样的小蜜蜂。
诗歌阅读是如此重要
没有一个诗人不从阅读开始，走上诗歌创作之路的。他们也曾是远诗的人，也曾对诗一无所知，但有一天，阅读让他们无意中推开了兴趣的魔衣橱大门，并由此走进了诗歌的纳尼亚。诗歌阅读是如此重要。
有的人走进健身馆，有的人捧起诗歌来读，他们的态度一样严肃，收获也一样丰厚。诗歌阅读，锻炼的是思想的肌肉，强壮的是心灵的骨骼；这里有破解文字谜语的乐趣，展开想象翅膀的游戏，这里的挑战更大——当杰克变成阿凡达，灵魂可以与灵魂相握，一个世界便在另一个世界里觉醒……诗歌阅读是如此重要。
只有阅读，才能让作品焕发生命，让力量在心与心之间传递。除作者外没有第二个人阅读的作品，就像一节外部没有通路的电池，电流无以产生，能量无处作用。相反，一部作品阅读的人越多，它的生命越旺盛、越长久；而作者寄寓在作品中的精神，在每一次阅读时“复活”，溪流一样注入读者的心田，并伴随着作品的流传穿越时间与空间，超越种族与文化，成为人类精神财富的一部分——而每一位读者都参与了创造。诗歌阅读是如此重要。
我信，我能，我愿
诗歌不是喜马拉雅山雪人，我们可以地通过网络轻松搜出大量作品。然而，对于诗人而言，问题从来不是知音难求，而是读者缺乏。而对于远诗者而言，他们缺乏的又是什么呢？有的人觉得自己很难从诗歌中发现需要的东西，而有的人觉得他们需要的东西不在诗歌里。罗丹说：“生活中从不缺少美，而是缺少发现美的眼睛。”这里的眼睛，既指发现美的能力，也是指获取美的需求。
读者遇到自己喜欢的作品，恰如饥渴的旅人拾起路边的野果，这里既有邂逅的浪漫，又有品味的甘甜。今天，那种久违的惊喜还会发生，即便它发生在超市和便利店里，如果诗歌也可以像蔬菜水果一样，在精挑细选之后被摆上”货架”。“这是最好的时代，这是最坏的时代。”无论那时还是现在，总会有奇幻的海上漂流等着少年派和理查德·帕克，也总会有霍比特人听从使命的召唤勇往直前。在欲望和消费之上，还有更高尚的渴望——这是我所相信的。
当然，诗作不会被标注出营养成分、卡路里含量和适宜人群，放在商店货架上，也不会像促销商品为吸引更多的眼球打出广告，但如果有人能将作品的意趣和美妙适当呈现出来，就像 YouTube 上那些稍带一点剧透的电影解说做的那样，一定有助于人们更轻松地读起诗来。对一首诗而言，最好的作品解说或赏析不正是最好的广告吗？一盏灯可以点亮另一盏灯——这是我能做的。
写诗有趣，读诗也有趣；写诗不易，读诗也亦不易；写诗是创造，读诗还是创造。佛陀说“一花一世界”，诗也如是；读一首诗，就是在这个世界里展开一次充满挑战性的时空旅行，尽管它常常是一个人的漫游。如果能像《2001太空漫游》《星际穿越》那样呈现出来，这该是多么精彩啊——这是我所希望的。
没有一个孩子愿意看到睡美人为了王子的亲吻等上几千年，没有一个爱诗的人希望他喜爱的作品是锈迹斑斑的古董，寂寞地躺在海底。我是一个写诗的人，更是一个读诗和爱诗的人。我将读诗的快乐与思考收录在《独自读诗》中，与有缘人分享我们对诗、对生命、对世界的爱。
阅读吧！让飘浮在空中的心降落在平静的大地上。