why don’t they respect icons? when:
The Seventh Ecumenical Council held in Nicea in 787 – was against iconoclasm:
Icons are necessary and essential because they protect the full and proper doctrine of the Incarnation. While God cannot be represented in His eternal nature (“no man has seen God”, John 1:18), He can be depicted simply because [...]
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Cold wind strums the screen
in rhythmic fashion
a lovers’ touch
as shadow kisses light
not unlike the faintest
exclamation
of moth wing beating
quickly past in flight
The Cicadas perform
some orchestration
oblivious to all but
their own sound
a symphony they play
each night with passion
in the bated breath of silence,
they expound
A train screams
distant warning
to the sleeping
astounding even silence
to expel
in the aftermath
one hears the willow [...]
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