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
- Futility by Wilfred Owen
- Robert Burns: Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns:
- As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing. by Walt Whitman
- The Net-Menders by Sylvia Plath
- I Went Down into the Desert by Vachel Lindsay
- All The Dead Dears by Sylvia Plath
- Алексей Жемчужников – Отголосок девятой симфонии Бетховена
- Vanity Fair by Sylvia Plath
- A Wren’s Nest by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Hey, The Dusty Miller:
- Владимир Костров – Письмо в никуда
- Chanson D’Amour by Shaunna Harper
- Unforgetting by Satish Verma
- A Bucolic Betwixt Two; Lacon and Thyrsis by Robert Herrick
- Epitaph on Holy Willie by Robert Burns
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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).
