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
- Salvage poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Depression Before Spring by Wallace Stevens
- Robert Burns: A Winter Night :
- Юнна Мориц – Трудно светиться и петь не легко
- Feeling Lucky to Be Irish
- The Secret of the Machines by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мистерия хиппи
- These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
- Song by Margaret Widdemer
- To the Bartholdi Statue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet to the Nightingale poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Новый враг
- Love’s Paradox by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Владимир Высоцкий – Веселая покойницкая
- I am content here by Raj Arumugam
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).
