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
- Владимир Маяковский – О дряни
- To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho
- sea.html
- Britannia’s Pastorals by William Browne
- To The Queen poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Gardener XXVIII: Your Questioning Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Яков Полонский – Поэт и гражданин, он призван был учить
- The Middle of the World by Samuel Hazo
- Владимир Британишский – Дождик
- The Dream by W H Auden
- Their Frailty by Siegfried Sassoon
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 44. How fares it with the happy dead? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Saint Between Us by Satish Verma
- Федор Тютчев – Как ни тяжел последний час
- Resolved To Be Loved
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).
