Fitting

A time for every note
Every rhythm, every word
A place for every act
A pen for every herd
A death for every king
And end to everything.


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Joshua Fahey

Holy Family

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Joshua Fahey

Shelter

With the world and nature culling
Through chaotic maddening noise
A father's strength and a mother's lulling
Reveal a grace and poise
That sharpen against the world's dulling
Raising the spirits of girls and boys


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Joshua Fahey

Clarity

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Joshua Fahey

See the Laughter in the Eyes

The ringing of joy and pealing of glee
Announce, through my being, how I am free
Free to fall or to rise in pleasure or by grace
To nap or to steadily compete in the race

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Joshua Fahey

Unerringly

Dependably when searching in
A sea, I always find a marble bin
Which I had left behind

In certainty when traveling through
The dirges of siren's love making true
The longing for above

Yet shakily on narrow paths
I walk to roam to calm the wraths
And find myself a home


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Joshua Fahey

Merry Christmas!

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Joshua Fahey

Christmas Eve

Slowly being eaten by darkness of heart
Slowly driven to death
To us, in their song, the angels impart
Peace with the dawn's breath


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Joshua Fahey

O Emmanuel

Our Shepherd who gives
Us food fit for kings
Body and blood from
Our Savior who lives


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Joshua Fahey

Fourth Sunday of Advent

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Joshua Fahey

O King of the Nations

If I do not glorify Thee
I speak for naught
If I do not worship Thee
I act for naught
If I do not love Thee
I live for naught


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Joshua Fahey

O Dayspring

Singed, soiled, grimy, and grim
Under the shadow of humanity's sin
Speared by the path of daybreak's delight
No longer under the power of night

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Joshua Fahey

O Key of David

The key that can unbind
This wall of chains around
My eyes that makes me blind
My heart that makes me blind
But in your light I'm found


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Joshua Fahey

O Root of Jesse

Bone dry and bereft of life
A drop of joy from the sky
Color returns to the heart
Leaving the path of the dead awry


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Joshua Fahey

O Lord

Gazing deep upon the flame
Upon the Law, holy is His Name
Healed, are those, from His wrath
Who inscribe their hearts with the Ruler's path

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Joshua Fahey

O Wisdom

Lady speaking truth to our hearts
Proceeding from the Heart of Light
Grant us the light that He imparts
His grace on our path in the night


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Joshua Fahey

Third Sunday of Advent

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Joshua Fahey

Joy

Assurance without assurance is an odd thing
Faith when full of doubt, hope amid despair
When noise drowns all sound, I choose to sing
That silent assurance, draws me to prayer


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Joshua Fahey

Bus

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Joshua Fahey

Act

Between rocks and empty space
Beyond air and below water
The calm that lives in a sacred place
From the gardener, from the potter
Allows adaptations beyond the norm
To discover the divine form


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Joshua Fahey

Sparkles Falling

Sparkles falling, fluff collects
Fur a flurry out the door ajar
Wonderland in hopeful eyes reflects
Seeing each flake near and far
With a joy aflame that melts the snow
A fleeting loss that leads to play
Amid the splashes, banished woe
Another lovely fulfilling day


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Joshua Fahey

Melting Marshmallows

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Joshua Fahey

Around to Hear it

A fraction of the serenity within a frosted forest
Causes me to pause and listen for the faerie's chorus
And afore the clouded final breath revealed, my mortal hour
I marvel at the awesome silent splendor of His power


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Joshua Fahey

Second Sunday of Advent

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Joshua Fahey

Voice

With one height and mountain
One star to show the way
One voice cries to guide them
Straightens the hands to pray
Focuses the eyes to see
One dawn to start a new day
Flattens the hill and fills the valley
One Light, one Truth, one Way


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Joshua Fahey

Pumpkin

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Joshua Fahey

Walking Home

Blue and under grey
Listening to what the sparkles say
In their whisper on purple breeze
A remnant of a star says please
At least I read its red that way
As I clasped my hands to pray


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Joshua Fahey

To Err

A fleeting thought
And what's kept is lost
With not a lot
Of cost


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Joshua Fahey

Measure Twice

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Joshua Fahey

Mystery and Adventure

Mysteries of light, of stars, and of song
Illuminate the soul, simple as a bell
Mysteries of the beast, complexly blinded wrong
Building, secretly, down a room in hell
The mystery of love, that holds a heart so long
Upon a crucifix, of paradise will tell

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Joshua Fahey

First Sunday of Advent

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Joshua Fahey

End, Beginning, and Growth

A closing of a door
The opening of a window
Anticipation for
The seeds of grace to see grow


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Joshua Fahey