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
- The Song of Death by Robert Burns
- A Wintry Picture (II) poem – Alfred Austin
- Study in Hands by Théophile Gautier
- The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje
- Change of Climate by Michael S Wilson
- Иван Демьянов – Одежкин домик
- Compromising my ego by Tanisha Avarsekar
- The Lake Isle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- His Dream by William Butler Yeats
- Song of the Redwood-Tree. by Walt Whitman
- The Ballad Of Father Gilligan by William Butler Yeats
- Away With Funeral Music by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Николай Языков – Песни (Счастлив, кому судьбою дан)
- New Year’s Dawn – Broadway by Sara Teasdale
- Огюст Барбье – Мазаччио
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).
