The Best State to Read Poetry

I find that my best experience with reading poetry comes early in the morning just after I have completed a short meditation session.  For that matter if you want to write poetry it seems to flow best in this post-meditative state.  Later in the day when you are jaded with experience, coarsened with talking and all the petty trivia of life, the poetic experience seems to flee as if in fright.  I suppose you do not have to meditate to experience this heightened receptivity; it could be garnered from being quiet and mindful for a while. So much poetry is introduced to people in the scholastic setting. The poem becomes an object to be analysed and intellectually consumed, it becomes a useful thing, a adjunct to identity.  Not much of the gist of the poem survives this process although it may have some use to put poetry into a cultural context. I do not much like poetry to be spoken aloud, formally recited or 'performed'  for I find that the poem treated in these ways becomes often just noise lost in the air. There are exceptions as when a trained actor with a beautiful voice recites a poem or when a poem is written in a style with metre and rhyme specifically to be spoken aloud.