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
- Stepping Westward by William Wordsworth
- Olney Hymn 59: A Living And A Dead Faith by William Cowper
- Song—Blythe hae I been on yon hill by Robert Burns
- Алексей Толстой – Средь шумного бала, случайно
- Epilogue poem – Ezra Pound poems
- In Praise Of Limestone by W H Auden
- April Is The Saddest Month by William Carlos Williams
- An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller by William Cowper
- Hard To Please by Shel Silverstein
- Юрий Левитанский – Кто-то так уже писал
- Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? by William Shakespeare
- Dirge of the Three Queens by William Shakespeare
- A Pact poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A Stepmother’s Vain Love by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Такахама Кёси – Драчливые петухи
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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).
