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
- Lullaby by William Butler Yeats
- Night-Piece by Siegfried Sassoon
- Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- Виталий Кодрян – 31 августа
- Robert Burns: Altho’ He Has Left Me:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Две Козы
- Back To The Border
- Eclogue:–A Ghost by William Barnes
- The Bungler poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Аля Кудряшева – Октябрь был дождем, непонятным месяцем
- Sonnet 10 poem – John Milton poems
- Юрий Верховский – Ах, душечка моя, как нынче мне светло
- Epigram—Commissary Goldie’s Brains by Robert Burns
- A Lover To His Mistress by William Strode
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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).
