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
- Вера Павлова – Утро вечера мудренее
- Daddy, daddy, I can’t go to school by Raj Arumugam
- Виталий Бакалдин – Я не рос среди берез
- The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath
- The Drowned Man poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Не касайся моих чертежей
- Fancy Dress by Siegfried Sassoon
- Gift Of The Great – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- On a Sea Fight, Which the Author was in, Betwixt the English and Dutch by William Wycherley
- Why do ye torture me? by Patrick Pearse
- Valley-dawn by Sunil Sharma
- The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding-House by Rudyard Kipling
- To Independence by Tobias Smollett
- Pomona by William Morris
- Forgotten by Priya Prithviraj
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).
