Poem- “The History of Dead Poems”

“The History of Dead Poems”

I hope I have enough context of meaning with my title for this poem.

It’s a poem about “The History of Dead Poems”.

You will probably ask me,

“What are dead poems?”

Okay, I know some readers like you may be too sensitive to new ideas.

But this is really not a new idea if you just use your imagination.

Here’s my description with judgement:

“Dead poems” are poems that are still available, but nobody really reads them.

History is full of these dead papers.

I feel sorry when I read so many of them and get so much pleasure.

These poems are “dead” poems.

Almost nobody really reads them and almost nobody really cares about them.

Yes, we still have the poems available for reading.

We “can” still read the poems, but, the poems are still dead.

Some dead poems are still wonderful.

Other dead poems are fantastic evidence of error.

More dead poems are so boring and uninteresting.

Sometimes I wonder if a dead poet can ever turn into a zombie.

That would be funny… or not.

From my observation, even my observation of the history is always imperfect.

We always have too many dead poems.

It gets harder and harder to keep all these papers and books for them.

It’s not environmentally friendly and the obsolete imagination can be a sad case.

In case you are wondering… yes, most forms of imagination in history are dead, too.

People often wish to forget the past when they wish for imagination.

But, when they abandon imagination from the past, their future is bias.

People are often so happy and jolly while being so ignorant of history.

The history of literature is full of “dead” books, too.

It’s very expensive for libraries to keep all these dead books and dead poems.

A librarian probably does not even know what you’re reading right now.

It’s sad.

Maybe you check out a book from the library and you are the first reader for it.

Some books are so old, I need to use a letter opener to divide the ancient pages.

The books are really, really that old.

I wonder if a hurricane can come out of a dead poetry collection.

Some ancient works are brutal to the senses.

Others are jolly moments as unpopular as ever.

I also read the history of literature about forgotten awards, abandoned honors, etc.

Rewards and honors will eventually go extinct from the harsh hand of time.

Do you know what the history of rewards contains?

I don’t think so.

Virgil had education in his ancient past that doesn’t exist anymore today.

For this reason, his literature can seem dead, when it’s really still there for reading.

We often just call eternal life “dead”, because nobody really knows anything about it.

Even ancient farmers needed to throw away bad milk.

Poetry gets counters, damages, and labels until the representation is ridiculous.

We have so many dead poems in our history.

We may not even know where all of these dead poems are.

Are there dead poems in the ocean?

Are there dead poems in the mountains?

Are there dead poems in the bedrooms?

We are never exactly sure.

If we can revive some dead poems, that would be awesome.

But, at this point, that’s like making a YouTube video after the party is over.

You will be left out by the mystery of it all.

The word “video” was a word in the past that needed to be invented.

It’s pretty scary stuff.

Some mummies are dead poets.

Some soldiers are fighting poets.

Some leaders are powerful poets.

But, sooner or later, we will get even more dead poems in our literary history.

My poems will probably be dead in the future at some point.

But, hey!

At least I’m having fun with my philosophy, right?

You can benefit from this “dead” poem, too.

https://www.deviantart.com/gameuniverso/art/The-History-of-Dead-Poems-984900702