Poetry -- my new ritual

Many years ago, I heard advice that its healthy to start your day with a glass of water, before eating or drinking anything else. This has long been an established ritual with me. I now have a new ritual, which began several months ago and also began by chance. I now start my morning with the reading of a poem (at least one but not more than three) from a collection of poetry I picked up by chance at a used book store. It is Garrison Keillor's Good Poems and it contains a wide range of poets and poetic sensibilities. After many years of ignoring poetry, I find myself increasingly drawn to poetry as an art form. I find its precision of language refreshing in a culture that too frequently uses words to obscure and confuse; I appreciate that poetry can be expressive without being inflammatory. I am finding poets whose works I plan to explore in the future. I would recommend finding a collection or reconnecting with an old favorite (Yeats? Sexton? Tennyson?) and getting started . . .