Pondering Angels

A dance on the floor with the light fading in
Pondering angels pray
A festival of melancholy mixing with tin
In his eternal lay
Dig! Dig! away the dismay
As pondering angels pray

A toast to the bards as the violin hums
On this auspicious day
A cake filled with tears as much as with crumbs
Alone upon a tray
Dig! Dig! away with dismay
As pondering angels pray



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Joshua Fahey

Down in the West

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Joshua Fahey 

Watch and Pray

Won't you watch and pray with me?
Listen with your entire soul?
Keep my law most carefully?
Keep my love within you whole?

Won't you watch and pray tonight?
Stay with me and do not sleep?
With strongest fervor til morning light?
In your heart my presence keep?



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Joshua Fahey

Cool Glass

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Joshua Fahey 

Dust

Dust is left from lonely threads
Connecting to joyful, sorrowful webs
That capture dreams in blues and reds
And paint the memory in flows and ebbs


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Joshua Fahey

I Wonder About Pain

I wonder about pain and suffering and death
What it is to be sane, what it is to have breath
I wonder if I, who am grateful for such
To be able to die, and the warning of touch
Could be considered a fool, a madman, or crazed
Or maybe I am thinking so much that I'm dazed
After all it is far more important to the One
That I love Him, His Son, and His mother a ton



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Joshua Fahey

Ready to Fly

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Joshua Fahey 

Allergy

Dust settles in my nose
A loud sound my mouth throws
All from smelling a rose
Cursed allergy

But then from that sound she smiles
At a glance my heart stops and riles
My allergy reduced our distance by miles
God was blessing me


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Joshua Faheyp

The Words of Everlasting Life

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Joshua Fahey 

Lead

If all roads lead to Rome
All roads could lead away
As chastity leads to home
And lust leads astray

So I walk this road
As long as it may be
Until familial abode
At last I may see

Lord, to whom should we go
Even troubled as we are
The Word you are and know
And you've promised to lead us far


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Joshua Fahey

Honey Bear

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Joshua Fahey 

Adventurous Gloom

A heart of lead and rusting veins

No tin man could understand such pains

And walk alone along that road

To find truth and love beyond the plains

Before all integrity has been sold

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Joshua Fahey 

Something About a Tiger and a Tree and Something Else... I Think

Flying tiger through the sky

Amongst the trees soaring high

Then caught by leafy cage and kept

A laughing child stopped then wept

Captured tiger, tail in patches

A tree’s burr the poly fur snatches

One glass bead looks down at the boy

A weeping child and an imprisoned toy

Then like a cannon the snare destroyed

A baseball thrown from boy annoyed

The fettered feline by leather missile saved

Falls on a child whose tears’ve been stayed

The older boy collects his ball

The smaller boy stands up tall

And his hiccuping thanks he bade

With simple actions a friendship made

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Holy Rest

Polite staring at the golden throne

Hours of rest while kneeling on stone

A wee babe in his father's hands

Assured of the love in his father's plans

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey 

Curse

Such a curse it is to ignore

The magic found beyond your door

To not call to mind the lore

Of the One Who is the Core

Ah the bitterness of Adam’s sons

Of Cain’s never ceasing runs

To have life seized as by the Huns

To where one cannot laugh at puns

A curse that sees a tree as less

Then a sign of the One’s caress

A simple thing He does bless

Whose depths we could only guess

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Quarry

Year after year of cutting out bricks

And laying them on a solid foundation 

Without cutting corners or foolhardy tricks

Making a virtuous house in a fashion

I'm not very good at it, you see

I need to learn to rely on God more freely

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Don't Drink Too Much Wine

Don't drink too much wine

Come instead and drink some blood

The world will pass away in time

And be destroyed by graceful flood

Don't eat too much bread

Come instead and eat some flesh

The world has no real food, no cred

It's core is rotten, and is never fresh

You are what it is you eat

So come and eat of the Savior's feast

You will never go down in defeat

Nor dragged down to being a beast

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Strawberry

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Joshua Fahey

Patience

Patience is a furious thing

Keeping calm when you want to sing

A suffering most undignified

When patience holds you down inside

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

The Porch's Swing

The last vestiges of hazy sleep
From napping on the porch's swing
Take me down very deep
Into a land of everything

Where giants stomp and shake the land
And genii give wishes to counter fools
Whilst Thumbelina sings upon a hand
And knights have honor, and Arthur rules

Half awake and half asleep
From napping on the porch's swing
In homesickness I weep
For the land of Christ the King



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Joshua Fahey

Winding Road

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Joshua Fahey 

Disaster

Disaster can fall at any time
Without any knowing the reason or rhyme
Fortune and safety will turn on a dime
Targeting the lowly or those in their prime
Those innocent or guilty of crime
An egalitarian act so sublime
That any saint, scum, or slime
Drinking water, or drinking lime
Can be subjected to it at any time



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Joshua Fahey

Broom

Out of sun, under broom

Whilst depression creeps and looms

Yet angelic hope shall bloom

Today I do not greet my tomb

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey 

Were I to Die

I sometimes wonder were I to die
If that would make thee glad
For I would no longer sin against thy
Holy name, no longer make thee sad

But then I recall that thou hadst died
For my soul thou bled and cried
So I will with all my strength abide
In thy name, and stay by thy side




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Joshua Fahey

Death

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Joshua Fahey 

Writer's Block

When I don't know what to write
Maybe I should write about that?
But then how much can the light
Shed on something so empty and flat?


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Joshua Fahey

Sweet Tea

Likely found in depths of honey
Is a treasure of fantastic flavor
Which is wonderfully sweet to savor
In ice tea when it is sunny


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Joshua Fahey

Kitchen Sink

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Joshua Fahey 

Stormy Walk

Carefree caress of gentle rain drops

Gliding down with plips and plops

Birds and squirrels hide in their trees

Avoiding the draft from a sudden brisk breeze

Rainwater dissolving children's pictures of chalk

Such things can be seen during a stormy walk

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Carnival

When the world shuts down

And its fun will darken and fade

The divine lights will still shine

With Truth fully arrayed

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey 

It is a Joy to Walk in Summer

It is a joy to walk in summer
Amidst the heat and beneath the light
And still a joy to walk under
A winter moon amidst the night

And where I walk you will find me
As you made me wandering
In sky, on land, or sailing the sea
A traveler's song I ever sing

This song I sing is of the home
That you have built of flesh and bone
Where I will no longer flit and roam
A house of faith sturdy on stone

Where I will leave my souvenirs
And finally rest in your hands
A child who has overcome his fears
And enjoyed your varied lands

And finally I will deeply sleep
Dear brother, O so gently rest
And may your peace within me steep
As my exhausted soul will crest


God bless,
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Joshua Fahey