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
- No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest by Mary Gilmore
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Untitled XXV by Yunus Emre
- Francis II, King of Naples poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- At the Sea-Side by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Only Breath by Jelaluddin Rumi
- Song—Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка про прыгуна в длину
- Владимир Маяковский – По городам Союза
- Георгий Иванов – Аспазия, всегда Аспазия
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Rough Roads:
- Virgule by Thomas Lux
- An Ode to Beer
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Garden and Gardener. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
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).
