Mother

When I stubbed my toe or got something in my eye
Who would heal my wound and tell me not to cry?
When I lay in bed unable to rise up
Who would cool my forehead or fill my water cup?



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Joshua Fahey

Reindeer

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Snowflake

A taste of a snowflake
A whisper of rhyme
Chills form a meter
Keeping subtle time
And up in the branches
Dusted in grime
Staring at star song
In seating that's prime
Is a poor simple godling
A child divine



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Joshua Fahey

Foolishness

A fool is only bold in that
He fails in what a child could do
What a pre-teen thinks is old hat
A fool fails as if it were new




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Joshua Fahey

Crackle

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Joshua Fahey

Gift

Receiving a gift is a gift
That a generous man gives out
So one gift turns into ten
Rising like an old and faithful spout



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Joshua Fahey

Merry Christmas!

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Joshua Fahey

Waiting for Nothing

A man who did nothing wandered around

A man who was waiting gave him a call

But nothing does nothing, he responds not at all

Waiting is still waiting for the lost to be found
For nothing to repent he must first become something
Waiting is something that even angels can sing
Awaiting the Lord is a beautiful sound




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Joshua Fahey

O Emmanuel!

Awaiting our savior giver of life

For to free every man from sin and from strife

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O Rex Gentium! O King of the Nations!

Awaiting the King, of all, of kings
For to surrender my service and things


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O Oriens! O Morning Star!

Awaiting the rise of the Morning Star
For to shine light on the dark and bizarre


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O Clavis David! O Key of David!

Awaiting the Key of every heart
For to tear down what keeps apart


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O Radix Jesse! O Root of Jesse!

Awaiting the Root of Jesse's line
For to kneel to the king divine



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Joshua Fahey

Fourth Sunday of Advent

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O Adonai! O Lord!

Awaiting our Lord, giver of law
For to redeem us, our hearts to thaw


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O Sapientia! O Wisdom!

Awaiting Wisdom on her throne
For to despise my heart of stone


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Joshua Fahey

Woof

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Being

How do the blind walk?
By being led
How do the blind eat?
By being fed



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Joshua Fahey

No Refunds, No Returns

Deeds and merits like grains of sand
Gather in unstable mass
But giving them into your hand
In your fire sand becomes glass

And now I can never return
To sand nor should I ask
To undo this transcendent burn
That reveals you under my mask



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Joshua Fahey

Bottle Caps

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Joshua Fahey

Our Lady of Guadalupe

In what could only be acknowledged
As a miracle today
Quite impossibly still imaged
Inviting us to pray
In a package of fine flowers
Is the Rose in prayer
I'll be praying here for hours
Underneath her care




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Joshua Fahey

Gaudete Sunday!

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Joshua Fahey

The Desert

Where are the feasts?
They are in the desert
Where is peace
But in the desert?
From where comes joy?
From the desert

In the desert is where Moses met Him
In the desert is heard the Baptist's cry
And within our hearts deserted by sin
In the arid silence we hear Him sigh



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Joshua Fahey

Sad Fowl

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Immaculate Conception

In that moment of weakness
That intentional vulnerability of thine
May your sacred meekness
Become our yes of servility to the divine



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Joshua Fahey

The Trip

The hum both steady and low
Of my father's truck
Sends me here below
Where coyotes give out luck

And with the luck they give
That sends you left or east
You mightn't be able to live
As a beauty or a beast

Apple trees grow proudly
Here in paradise
And giants bellow loudly
About their favorite vice

Dragons guard the towers of ivory
Knights safeguard the road
Wearing Arthur's livery
As if he were ne'er lowed

But then the humming stops
But then the trip has ended
Yet next time my spirit drops
I'll see again a world resplendent



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Joshua Fahey

Smith

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Joshua Fahey

In a Deep Dark Cave

In a deep dark cave
Unseen for many years
Far beyond where brave folk break down into tears

Across a broken chasm
Spanned by a gloomy bridge
Lies a blue phantasm alone in still umbrage

Its purpose chills my heart
And deepens many a fear
When will it depart, Lord? When will it disappear?



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Joshua Fahey

Second Sunday of Advent!

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Joshua Fahey

Turning When You're Tired

Turning when you're tired
When in a muddle the mind is mired
Feels like you're on a pyre
A hard skill to acquire

Harder still I know
Is turning when you're stone
Petrified from sin and death
Your heart cut and alone

But turn and turn we must
Defying that spiritual rust
Begging for God's grace
So we may turn to see His Face





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Joshua Fahey

Swung

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Man, it's like waiting

Man, it's like waiting and waiting and waiting
For... something? My patience is emaciating
And yet there is more waiting until it's done
I'm like a child itching to move and run
I don't like waiting
It's not that fun
What I know in my head isn't stilling my heart
Yet waiting is my role, my part
In a play I start
Waiting
To run



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Joshua Fahey

Colors

Geranium blooms have colors that lift
The stems of lilies have colors that grow
Roses have colors that may heal a rift
But tulips have all the colors I know



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Joshua Fahey

Park

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Night Haiku

Why is the sky dark?
Yet even then there are stars
Glimpses of the truth




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Joshua Fahey

First Sunday!

Sorry for the late post...


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Turn

Laugh like the world is ending

For it's just beginning 

Cry for tomorrow will come

With the rising of the sun

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Joshua Fahey

War Dog

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Happy Thanksgiving

Another step another job

Another work accomplished

I give thee my gratitude, my Lord

Until thy work is finished

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Wimper

With a whimper and a whoosh
My fortitude has fallen far
Swiftly sans the swoosh
Instead it's a stuttering sinking star
With a whimper and a whoosh
I need you Lord once more



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Joshua Fahey

Portable Hole

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Wilted Leaves and Flourished Weeds

Wilted leaves and flourished weeds
Surround an ancient aspen tree
The bird of sorrow rests and pleads
To the heavens just for me



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Joshua Fahey

Throne

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The End

When from the cup the last drop falls
When from the sky the last ray falls
When from eons the last second falls
When the trumpet calls

Will I mock the one beside me
Will I defend the one beside me
Will I beg the one beside me
'Please remember me'



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Joshua Fahey

Rocket

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Breakfast

Up at a counter on a solitary barstool
Sat a man solitarily named
And in a voice clear and unashamed
Ordered two eggs and some gruel
With a smile that gave a renewal
In a scene that Rockwell might've framed
In a transcendence of the golden rule
The waitress's smile made gold ashamed


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Joshua Fahey

Evening Song

Darkness falls earlier than I expected tonight
I remain standing with just the wind as my friend
I remain gazing through the sky without end
Rapt in the song of the moon's and stars' light

My friend the wind speaks through the trees
Raising a smile from my heart to my eyes
Laughing in sorrow with my friend's sighs
Of his adventures since he was just a wee breeze

But sadly the darkness bids us to part
And I find myself thinking of him as I walk
And of the great secrets we shared in our talk
Secrets that ne'er will be leaving my heart

Darkness fell earlier than I expected tonight
Allowing my soul to hear and grow bright




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Joshua

Bike Ride

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Joshua Fahey

Impatient

drip, drip, drop
flows my time that will not stop
will not rush and will not cease
but drip, drip, drip that ruins peace

All at once too fast and slow
Which forces me to a stop to grow



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Joshua Fahey

Sunset

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Gnostic Heights

Higher up my tower
And looking at the vast
Amount of the world I contemplate
So like a pea on my plate
The height I have amassed

Yet if I looked down
To see those like bees after pollen
Who took apart my base
Brick by brick my place
I'd know why I had fallen




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Joshua Fahey

Still Tower

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Boiled

Controlled by flames, constrained by steel
A splash of water for my meal
Containing eggs, and noodles too
What can water do for you?


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Joshua Fahey

I Need to Breathe Again Today

Strident tones and enchanting whispers
Attract, distract me from the work of thought
The tilling of the tracts of ideas, musings, being
Of who I am, for whom I've been bought
And to where I will, am, and have sought


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Joshua Fahey

Apocalypse

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Silver Discs

Solid slender silver discs within simple stacks
And frenzied fists fill the fickle fettered frog
That golden globe and groggy glob gallant
Poise 'gainst pressured probe that a piper's apt to preach



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Joshua Fahey

Buried (For Now)

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A Fear of Pain

A fear of pain, a fear of doom
A fear of when devils may loom
A fear of what lies within a tomb
These fears are nought for the Groom

Rather courage to stand with one another
To serve a King who is like a Father
To love a Savior like a Brother
To treat His mother like our mother

For our bodies may decay
But if our souls don't rot away
From sins transgressed in a selfish way
We might welcome Resurrection Day


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Joshua Fahey

A Mix

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Calm

Possibilities that flow from milk
Or honey, or maybe gin
That comfort smooth as silk
Anxiety within



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Joshua Fahey

Reunion

Colanders and hamburgers
Simple sample frankfurters
With the shortie shirkers
Running all around

Barbecue and rabbit stew
Uncle Tommy's chile too
Golden oldies and shiny new
Family about the ground



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Joshua Fahey

All Saints!

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Joshua Fahey

Spiral

Spiral out and spiral in
To the max and to the min
Of fear, of love, of hope, of wrath
Up and down you do the math
Up in hope for tomorrow's morn
Down in fear of the current storm
Up in love for all His kin
Down in wrath to plain from mountain
Mock the devil and mock death
Our elder brethren still have breath
And the dark is powerless in the face
Of all who have received His grace




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Joshua Fahey

Up a Tree

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Steady

Beautiful the dance of elms
Stoic stand the oaks
Beings of steadier realms
That put to lie the hoax
That happiness is grasped and held
When it is received
Into being it is weaved
With the sun beheld



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Joshua Fahey

Watch This!

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Silent Tune

Folly, my dear, to sing of the bird
More folly still, and more absurd
To not have listened, to not have heard
Its song as I sing of the song of the bird

Courage, my dear, it takes to stay still
To listen, to listen to life in its mill
The courage it takes to charge up, up the hill
Is needed, I need it, to let God have His Will


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Joshua Fahey

Eyes Turned Inwards

Immersed in the vault of the mind
I must think I'm blind
Lacking vision, connection, and care
I find my cupboards bare

Immersed in the sea known as me
Drinking this tea
Afraid of every ray of light
I must be lacking sight



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Joshua Fahey

Dear Sir or Madam

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Joshua Fahey

Butterfly

Sweet elegant insect you glide
Onto a seraphic throne
In which seat nectar abides
You take it for your own
And then softly once more alight
With magic of fae and wight

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Joshua Fahey

Cracked Vessel

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Downward Spiral

How can I stop talking if the voice is in my head
If rather than building up others, I'm breaking myself instead
Never leaving my mind, my universe, my cell
How can I stop talking myself down into Hell?

The fear of conversing with others is twisting my eyes away
Colors are fading from rainbows, and night is fading from day
How is it that I cannot even stay my darkness that delves
Through each lowest on that rocket ship to Hell?

O God, I hope you're listening to this terrible creature of thine
I know you're eternally busy, I just hope you take the time
Listen to my prayers, I know they're getting thinner
But please have mercy on me, a sinner



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Joshua Fahey

I'm so Happy

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Duty

Littered on the causeways of my nefarious train
Are the many broken ideas of my broken brain
Buried under the soft haze and refuse of a broken soul
Maybe I haven't said broken enough yet? Increase the poll
Yet I enjoy in an odd way the confusion and the strife
The chance of meeting the tiger with the knife
I enjoy the darkness and the illusion and the light
But my loyalty is given to one, the just one, who gives me sight


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Joshua Fahey

I Hear Too Much, Yet Cannot See

What is mine to be and hear
What is fearlessness but fear?
Why in the dance of dust
I've not yet heard what I must?
Who must I be today?
To whom am I owed, I pray
Beyond my ken and sight
Where are you tonight?


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Joshua Fahey

A Fan

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Keyboards

Gorillas blaring in two step rainbow
Chimps muttering of Billy's sideshow
'Tyrants always thus to thee'
Type the monkeys in D.C.
'Roses smelly by your name'
Summing up the dis-guessing game


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Joshua Fahey

Out Staffed

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From Home to Work to Play

From home to work to play

Each place I enter, each place I go

I am stepping in to pray

Prayer that's fast and slow

Prayer of which I know

He hears every word I say

Before the break of dawn

I praise your glory for the sun

Even after the sun has gone

I am thankful for what you've done

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Joshua Fahey

Plaque

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Flint & Steel & Coal

Coal does not gleam, does not glitter

Unless ignited by flame

Then heat is returned ten times over

And light reveals a new name

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Joshua Fahey

Stepping Back to Step Forward

Slow is impossible for those without breath
Fast only happens to us after death
Patience is calmness whilst the storm rages on
The eye in the chaos that the world lingers on
The world is always dying and is likewise never slow
And rages all the more against those it cannot throw


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Joshua Fahey

Blue in Light

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I Will Spit You Out

At sea when waters are still
That's when anxiety gels
Ringing out alarm bells
For nothing is daring

For those souls lacking the will
They are in the most danger
To God there is nothing stranger
For a soul that is tepidly uncaring



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Joshua Fahey

This River?

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All the Things

All the things you've done for me
Who could count? Not even I know the amount
Your help is deep as the sea

Yet every breath I breathe is a squandering
My hands are a sieve, for the gifts you give
Astray I've been wandering

There is nothing in heaven or on earth
No repayment of stuff, that could be enough
All I have is 'Thanks', for all it's worth


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Joshua Fahey

Wolf

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Shady Haiku

What does color do?
Even mute it shows beauty
Lights reality's soul



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Joshua Fahey

Climb

Mountains have that calm face
That divine and sacred space
Untouched by the human race
Even those who were there

Mountains have that high peak
To which angels might speak
With voices not for the weak
Reality laid bare

The mountain in my soul
Must be climbed higher, higher
On that tor I'll stand whole
My sacrifice in fire



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Joshua Fahey

More Kiwi

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Twilight

Shadows are long when the bright light is low
Distorting the paths we see and we know
Shadows of darkness that stem from the light
Giving a fright

Streetlights illumine the trails of the Fae
Giving illusions of showing the way
Twisting the darkness into the light
Dimming the sight

And yet, the trees whisper
The calm wind blows free
Reality seems crisper
At the count of three

Moonlight and starlight beckons my soul
Wonder and magic making me whole
Life everlasting pouring His blood
Into figures of mud



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Joshua Fahey

Small Spark

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Sweets

I don't believe in candy
In syrup or in cake
I don't believe in ice cream
But I still partake

I believe in veggies
In potatoes and in steak
I believe in cereal
Keeping me awake

I do not need happiness
Sadness or desire
But all of them in symphony
Praising God in choir


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Joshua Fahey

Pensive

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Kiwis

Kiwis taste good
That's about all I've got
So I should
Eat kiwis a lot


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Joshua Fahey

Hello Doctor

Slow or fast? Which is better?
Which is happier? Which is sadder?
Is hot or colder that much wetter?
Which lives make you madder?

Mine makes me mad
Mad as a loon
Wrathful as a king's rook
But I'm a buffoon, a fool of a Took
But never not alone, and that makes me sad
But that man is glad
The man on the tree
Why He should atone
Yet be full of glee?



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Joshua Fahey

Keys

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Noise

Noise about the soul
Disorienting and grave
Tipping o'er the bowl
My sanity was trying to save
(But in a tempered measure
My chest secures its treasure)
And though I don't know if I am whole
Wholly to God I gave


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Joshua Fahey

Who's at the gate

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Awaken

Come little one, open your eyes
Come visit the world as I do
Placing your heart in other's lives
Don't be cocooned, come be surprised
Awake arise, the day is new



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Joshua Fahey

Tipping Point

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Playground Haiku

Bright colored plastic
Laughter of the innocent
Giving all they have

Play is reflection
No wasted action is done
Nor is time squandered



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Joshua Fahey

Diligence

Let's set up a tent, I say
Mix a brew, polish armor too
Let's ask our priest to pray
For tomorrow will be battle day

Stock up on potions for magic and health
Defeat small fry to increase our wealth
Take our time to prepare
Then enter the dragon's lair


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Joshua Fahey

Cut

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Countless

The third step
The second breath
The first death
I never prep
The first sight
The second night
Out of depth


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Joshua Fahey

Two Masters

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Joshua Fahey