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
- Омар Хайям – Мы пешки, небо же игрок
- Федор Сологуб – В камине пылания много
- Calais, August 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Ирина Гурина – Как пчёлы чуть не поссорились
- Phallus
- Владимир Высоцкий – Солдат и привидение
- A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall by Robert Herrick
- Bringen Woone Gwaïn O’ Zundays by William Barnes
- An Old Man’s Thought of School. by Walt Whitman
- Here by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
- София Парнок – Триолеты
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вы с Музой свадьбу золотую
- Альфред де Мюссе – Что так усиленно сердце больное
- Eclogue:–The Best Man In The Vield by William Barnes
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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).
