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
- The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Canto XIII poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1790 by William Cowper
- The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman
- Folk Singer’s Blues by Shel Silverstein
- A Jewish Cemetery In Germany by Yehuda Amichai
- Instead of farewell by Vinko Kalinić
- Crazy Jane On The Day Of Judgment by William Butler Yeats
- Новелла Матвеева – Река
- Ярослав Смеляков – Русский язык
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот молочный налог… (Главполитпросвет №217)
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances. by Walt Whitman
- Иван Киуру – Песня моряка
- Владимир Маяковский – Поэт рабочий
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).
