Office

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Joshua Fahey

A Taste of Poison

A taste of poison is all it takes
To kill a soul like mine like yours
To anchor you to worldly waste
And keep you from the celestial shores


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Joshua Fahey

It's a Peace Ray, I Swear!

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Joshua Fahey

Prayer of a Coward

What have you done by giving me
This thing more precious than a gem
More fragile than a crystal heart
Our brother born in Bethlehem?

Why have you done thing so grand
So generous to the broken me
Who has failed to love as in the law
Who is irresponsible and cowardly?

O God I beg, since you will not back down
For the strength to see this through
The peace to hold you lovingly
And the wisdom for seeking you



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Joshua Fahey

Satisfied

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Even in the Darkest Skies

Even in the darkest skies
God created fireflies
Simply there for the simple joy
Of each delighted girl and boy


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Many Whole

Magnificent magnanimous magical and unmatched
By any Jenny or Benny whether uncanny or sane
Painting a perfect picture of people patched
Mended and molded and moving on the main


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Joshua Fahey

Sweet Spillage

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A Voice Alights

A voice alights upon my heart
Insistent in its urging
Upon my acts to stop or start
To be temperate not splurging
It sparks a blaze ne'er larger than
Nor smaller than its source
Giving light in this wretched fen
With warmth of gentle force


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Joshua Fahey

Render Unto Lizardmen...

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Creative God

How creative are you
When your signature is thought
When you sign on your creation
An imprint of what is ought
Letting all who meet us
All those who can hear
Know how caring you are of man
How much you hold us dear



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Joshua Fahey

Flag on the Day

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Simple Meal

Put on a pot of water
Bring out the eggs and salt
Let us put a halt
To this terrifying hunger



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Joshua Fahey

Patience

Every dandelion carved with care
Every yellow petal pressed
With a patience I'd never dare
The same tenderness with which I'm blessed

Every blade of jade whetted
With the edge of unfailing hope
Every need of every creature meted
Beyond my finite scope

In a world of alien marvels
Yet in a home so warm with joy
Mary smiles as she warbles
Lullabies to her baby boy

And on a path of which I've tired
Such wonders keep my soul unmired


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Joshua Fahey

Nap

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Peace

Were that I calm or still
I could drink of thee my fill
Instead of fretting low and high
Frenetic in my misery

Were that I heard thy voice
And to my heart no other noise
Instead my heart is cold
Thy stories remain untold

Let me be separate from
The worldly buzz and hum
And attend to greater things
To hark to thee O King of kings


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Joshua Fahey

Order

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I Have Nothing

I have nothing in the realm of joy
Then O Lord you send down your rain
And standing in that glorious fall
I remember how to praise again

I have nothing peaceful in my soul
Just broken pieces on the whole
But then you send to me your light
And I sleep in your arms tonight

I have nothing on me but dirty rags
But I beg and plead each day
And you have sent me raiments of hope
So that in your house I'll stay



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Joshua Fahey

Choo Choo

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Joshua Fahey

Autumn Rain Haiku

Warm water, cold rain
Amid the falling prisms
The gift of living


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Joshua Fahey

Cold Desserts

Rain down the well
And I am in the street
Wet wind and chill
Witnessing my feat
Two scoops of black
And a scoop of white
Vanish in a blink
As I whistle in the night
And now the price to pay
(And I tremble with a groan)
Is my soul now chilled
By an ice cream cone


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Joshua Fahey

One Good Shirt

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Heros of an Ancient War

Heros of an ancient war
Undying honor set in stone
Forged only by undying fire
That burns inside the bone


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Joshua Fahey

Choice or Wild?

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Self-Sculpting

Every act a nick, a note
A permanent pose in time
And at the end blessed or smote
Whichever act would rhyme

Artists are we but sculptures too
Paradoxes with taste (a smidge)
Who form ourselves crooked and true
And might end on Paradise's fridge



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Joshua Fahey

A Light to Read by

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Legends

Legends speak
Of a week
Where nothing
Was done

Angels sung
Church bells rung
To celebrate
The rising Son




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Joshua Fahey

The Seas Within

The seas within my turbid soul
The ship that guides me through
The dove that leads through the squall
They all have come from you

The ken of knots and sails and stars
Though I have spent time to gain them
I can only truly call it ours
After all you've done to explain them

And now I gaze out o'er the waves
Within my tranquil soul
I give a shout with all my praise
To He who made me whole


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Joshua Fahey

Not Spared

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Field

Time and care in plenty given
Most of which remains hidden
From the eyes of finite folk
Who from their half-sleep have not awoke
But still the cheer in flower fields
Is there. And gives plenty in her yields


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Joshua Fahey

Made it to the End

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Joshua Fahey