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
- Noe more unto my thoughts appeare by Sidney Godolphin
- You Ask Me, Why, Tho’ Ill at Ease poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sonnet X
- Live for the moment, be in the present by Ramesh V Deshpande
- In Thoughtless Mind by Satish Verma
- A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Lame Guy by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- AUTUMN GRAPES by Önder Kurt
- Song, by a Person of Quality poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- A Different September by Steve Sant
- Как просто было в юности
- Mr. Brain by Russell Edson
- I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
- Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep by William Shakespeare
- Indian Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
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