Ghosts
by Martina Reisz Newberry
If you believe in ghosts,
I think you must believe
that earth’s good smells live on
and that the dead will act
on fury and on fear.
You must believe that, while
the dead are under the
dirt or parked in urns, they
still have a plan. They want
to see their favorite movies
again and scratch their dogs’
bellies, make love in warm places
and buy chocolate at the market.
I’ve sensed ghosts now and then,
turned to where I thought
my mother’s eyes might watch or
my father’s fingers might touch.
I’ve found my cupboard door
ajar and heard wild words
in the dark. If you believe
in ghosts, you must believe
that living is not a huge
salt sea, but a shallow
stream in which most things, like
the restless dead, stay afloat.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sleeping for Kafka by Nin Andrews
- Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
- Вера Павлова – Поколенье, лишённое почерка и походки
- Mowing by Robert Frost
- Robert Burns: Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline:
- A Faded Postcard Is A Tanka Daydream
- My Friends by W. S. Merwin
- A Slice Of School by Vaishnavi Prakash
- The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Conclusion by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Алишер Навои – Не в камфарной ли одежде этот кипарис прямой
- Кипение
- The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje
- On Niobe (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Grace Before Song poem – Ezra Pound poems
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
