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
- Untitled XX by Yunus Emre
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Forgotten Promises by Rixa White
- You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies by Ruth Madievsky
- Evening in a Sugar Orchard by Robert Frost
- In the Valley of Cauteretz poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: My Native Land Sae Far Awa:
- Robert Burns: Lines To An Old Sweetheart:
- Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle by William Wordsworth
- Meg Merrilies poem – John Keats poems
- A New Year’s Gift by William Strode
- At Applewaite, Near Keswick 1804 by William Wordsworth
- The Sons of Martha by Rudyard Kipling
- In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit MDCCCXXXIII: 3. O Sorrow, cruel poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- At the Mid Hour of Night by Thomas Moore
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).
