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
- Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
- Zion by Rudyard Kipling
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 54. Oh, yet we Trust that somehow Goo poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: Prologue: Spoken by Mr. Woods on his benefit-night, Monday, 16th April, 1787
- A Night In June poem – Alfred Austin
- You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies by Ruth Madievsky
- Robert Burns: Up In The Morning Early:
- The Song Maker by Sara Teasdale
- Conscience by Walter William Safar
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- Please Don’t Judas Me by Mark Miller
- The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
- Ecstasy by Sarojini Naidu
- Hughley Steeple poem – A. E. Housman
- Advent by Patrick Kavanagh
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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).
