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
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Новогоднее видение
- Turn, O Libertad. by Walt Whitman
- Winter dusk at the railway halt by Sunil Sharma
- Crows and Hawks by Richard Schiffman
- Алексей Толстой – Вновь растворилась дверь
- Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Elegy I. To Charles Deodati (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Carol of a Father by Samuel Hazo
- Олег Бундур – Летняя гроза
- Letters to the Otherworld
- Sweet Fire by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Westward on the High-Hilled Plains poem – A. E. Housman
- Book Third [Residence at Cambridge] by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: On The Seas And Far Away:
- Manifesto for your smile and my songs by Vinko Kalinic
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).
