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
- Hymn To Apollo poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Некрасов – Во вражде неостывающей
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Москва
- Irish Love Song by Margaret Widdemer
- Жан де Лафонтен – Эзопово объяснение одного завещания
- OFF-LIMITS by Satish Verma
- With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
- The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin
- CBSE Education: Teaching Creative Learning
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
- Gipsies by William Wordsworth
- Fickle Fortune: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- Алишер Навои – Соловей, лишенный розы, умолкает, не поет
- Nothing is Real by Rixa White
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
Some external links:
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).
