Why Ai Weiwei Reads Poetry Poem by Ravi Kopra

"To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown."

-Ai Weiwei

if you read poetry
you see beyond reality
you discover beyond the physical
you experience another life -
another level of feelings

you wonder about the world
you understand peoples' nature
you share all this with others -
old or young, known or unknown

how wise, wonderful, meaningful!