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
- With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses by Vachel Lindsay
- The Gateway
- Out of Your Love by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Half-Ballad of Waterval by Rudyard Kipling
- Song by Margaret Widdemer
- English Poetry. Francis Turner Palgrave. A Churchyard in Oxfordshire. Фрэнсис Тернер Палгрев.
- Эмиль Верхарн – Холод
- Making It Work by Philip Levine
- Moonless darkness stands between poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Языков – Песни (Счастлив, кому судьбою дан)
- A Token by Robert Creeley
- Шекспир – Не позволяю помыслам ревнивым – Сонет 57
- What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
- Sealed Appropriate
- In The Seven Woods by William Butler Yeats
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).
