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
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Song by Robert Creeley
- Шекспир – Я лью потоки горьких слез – Сонет 44
- Conversation With My Heart by Russ Pergram
- Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Карамзин – Две песни
- A Question Answered poem – Alfred Austin
- A Woman Homer Sung by William Butler Yeats
- In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams by Wendell Berry
- Free the Holy Land — a poem about Palestine
- Since We Must Die poem – Alfred Austin
- The Holy Mountain of Hope by Thomas Ziemer
- Song—O Tibbie, I hae seen the day by Robert Burns
- Tip tap RAIN by Neelam Sinha
- Robert Burns: Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland: On his Benefit-Night, at the Theatre, Dumfries.
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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).
