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
- The Dead Woman by Pablo Neruda, La Muerta
- They Wondered Why the Fruit had Been Forbidden by W H Auden
- Олег Бундур – Если вы придёте в лес
- Владимир Костров – До чего нестерпимо и жёстко подуло
- Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – Песня (Налей и мне, товарищ мой)
- In The Night by Stevie Smith
- The house where I was born (07) by Yves Bonnefoy
- Here War Is Simple by W H Auden
- Олег Бундур – Когда я вернусь
- Владимир Набоков – Барс
- The Beacon Fires
- Spain 1873–’74. by Walt Whitman
- Dialogue Between Ghost And Priest by Sylvia Plath
- Федор Сологуб – Ветер в трубе
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