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 First Lover
- Poppies In July by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland: On his Benefit-Night, at the Theatre, Dumfries.
- Robert Burns: To Dr. Maxwell: On Miss Jessy Staig’s recovery.
- Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The Master of the Dance by Vachel Lindsay
- Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent by William Shakespeare
- To Autumn poem – John Keats poems
- Алексей Плещеев – Прости
- Ametas And Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Владимир Вишневский – Кто-то тянется к водному поло
- Ancestors by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Hunter by Shel Silverstein
- From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman
- Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse by William Shakespeare
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