O the chimneys
On the carefully planned dwellings of death
When Israel’s body rose dissolved in smoke
Through the air –
To be welcomed by a chimney sweep star
Turned black
Or was it a ray of the sun?
O the chimneys!
Paths of freedom for the dust of Jeremiah and Job –
Who dreamed you up and built stone upon stone
The path of smoke for their flight?
O dwellings of death
Set out so enticingly
For the host of the house, who used to be the guest –
O you fingers
Laying the stone of the threshold
Like a knife between life and death –
O you chimneys
O you fingers
And Israel’s body dissolves in smoke through the air!
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Silences still voice by Rohini Bhatia Singj
- Song at Sunset. by Walt Whitman
- Where we fall by Osman cisse Hanif
- Thou and You poem – Alexander Pushkin
- the_emigrant.html
- Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale In Verse by William Cowper
- Владимир Орлов – Где петушок носит гребешок
- Юнна Мориц – Букет котов
- On Beer
- Владимир Гиппиус – Узел
- Untitled XVII by Yunus Emre
- Robert Burns: The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John:
- The Survivor by Primo Levi
- Зинаида Александрова – Смешные человечки
- Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem by William Shakespeare
Some external links:
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).
