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
- Easter Decorations
- Robert Burns: Pegasus At Wanlockhead:
- Leaving Albania by Morelle Smith
- A Lover To His Mistress by William Strode
- Новелла Матвеева – Подсолнух
- These, I, Singing in Spring. by Walt Whitman
- September 1815 by William Wordsworth
- The Tom Toms
- How Soon Hath Time poem – John Milton poems
- At The Cenotaph by Siegfried Sassoon
- Schlummerland – Slumberland / CD by Roland Zoss
- In Ithica poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Empty Hills by Yvor Winters
- One Whisper of the Beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Маяковский – Забудем солдатчину!.. (РОСТА №425)
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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).
