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
- Superior by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper:
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Indications, The. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Костров – Поток ушедших лет
- Address to Beelzebub by Robert Burns
- Sonnet CXLIX by William Shakespeare
- Beach Glass poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Noe more unto my thoughts appeare by Sidney Godolphin
- For Sale by Shel Silverstein
- Fragment on Sensibility by Robert Burns
- For My Mother
- Content Written Off Ithica poem – Alfred Austin
- Reading by William Marr
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
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