By Lawrence “Mack” Hall
Word Count: 167
Rating: G
Summary: A short poem of ikons/icons
“…and looking at a picture on the opposite wall.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Ikons are windows to another World
Of Theos and Theotokos, of our saints
Some as merry as yet are others stern
While forming from the prayerful writer’s 1 hand
And in the saints the Light of God shines through
True witnesses to that transcendental Truth
And so we pause and with a candle catch
The prayer-light of their eternity
(As does the bedes-spider 2 who lives there)
Ikons are windows to that truer World
1 In Orthodoxy an ikon is said to be written rather than drawn or painted, but y’r ‘umble scrivener is no authority; the reader might begin a study of ikons / icons with:
2 An Orthodox friend discovered that a spider had made its home among his ikons, and so in peace and hierarchical obedience the little creature served God as a sort of canon, or perhaps a bedes-spider, until its death.