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
- Make Love and War by Michael O’Leary
- Dialogue En Route by Sylvia Plath
- Степан Щипачев – Тебе
- Олег Бундур – Поросенок и свиньи
- Олег Григорьев – Вкусно от меда во рте
- Юрий Галансков – Вступление к поэме “Апельсиновая шкура”
- Sonnet CXXX: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare
- Passion For Light
- Your choice by Mrunmayi Mandan
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Hex by Rachel McKibbens
- Who is at my door? by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Луговской – Остролистник
- A Dream (English Translation) by Rabindranath Tagore
- Law, Like Love by W H Auden
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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).
