Rider

Riding under stone arches
A stain, just darker than the sand
Moving toward a rising fire
Across a dismal land
A steady rhythm echos backward
Drawing darkened eyes to see
The tainted knight's last journey
For the kingdom of the free


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Joshua Fahey

Habit Forming

Bending the essence of the soul
Into a pleasing shape, a form
Joyous even when sorrowful
At peace while amid a storm
A deeper magic than Pan could play
The Love that comes when I pray


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Joshua Fahey

Wave

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Somewhat Pleasant

A somewhat pleasant numbness
Shivers in the dark
Fur about my heart
Cotton in my thoughts
A journey down a river
Let the owl hark
The stars sing their part
A somewhat pleasant lark



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Joshua Fahey

Scroll

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Joshua Fahey

Dependent

Which gives more? heart or lung?
Which is sharper? brain or tongue?
Which senses clearer? eye or ear?
Which is more loving? A laugh or a tear?
Which is stronger? muscle or bone?
God did not make us to act on our own



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Joshua Fahey

Note Tools

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Joshua Fahey

Friend in Pain

Clipper on the open sea
Tell me what is being free
Eagle soaring up above
Tell me what it's like to love
Lightning of the cloud and earth
Tell me how to live in mirth
Son of man upon the tree
Friend in pain, help me see


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Joshua Fahey

Garden

Few eyes still see
Many are blind
Many more have them shut
None find
The fruit of the tree
From which we've been cut
A sword at the gate
Rebellion of fate
Hurting One truly kind
Kind enough to free
Those who seek to see


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Joshua Fahey

Bench

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Sought After Magic

I seek that thing with highest power
To change reality
Greater than the atomic flower
A bomb could ever be
More instant than that finest hour
A time machine could see
More permeant than any empire
Could last for you and me
I seek that thing that could change my soul
Something that could make you whole
I seek a hug for we


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Joshua Fahey

Mas Vino Por Favor

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Joshua Fahey

Little Candle

Even in the coldest freeze
When I feel your gentle breeze
My heart warms and lights anew
With family
I am free
To seek the peace and joy of you




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Joshua Fahey

Rummy or Slap Jack?

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Joshua Fahey

Intersection Haiku

Near a stop light's view
Filled with caution and sorrow
Then a man lights up


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Y?

Why does an apple fall?
Attracted by the massive rock?
Why is its accelerated call
Consistently end in shock?
Why does momentum always lock
A body in motion or at rest
Until another force does knock?
And why does it bend to that behest?
Why do nature's laws at test
Always persistently agree in order?
And why can Man, from east to west
Comprehend beyond every border?


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Joshua Fahey

Clinging

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Joshua Fahey

Chilly White

Chilly white unstained the frame
Of mind that darkened home
While warmth grew with little flame
And light that shattered and shone
A path down which I gained a name
And stayed, no more to roam

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Joshua Fahey

Drenched

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River Dance

A step, a wade, a dunk
Under water's domain
The old life has been sunk
A new life given name


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Joshua Fahey

End of a Long Day

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Joshua Fahey

Carefully Simple Acts

Carefully simple acts
Have a magic thrill
Impact souls to the max
Whether good or ill


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Joshua Fahey

Afraid

It wasn't that answers were needed
Or efforts desperately spent
Yet when sins went unweeded
The devil came for the rent
But before he could grow wild
He ran at the cry of the Child



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Joshua Fahey

Melodic

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Apathy

A lack of interest in a simple fight
No money on who's wrong or right
A tepid soul, bland and dead
Amid superficial cares was bred
Arise and walk before the loss
Walk along the path of the cross

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Joshua Fahey

Yonder Star

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Gifts

Beguiling glittery yellow bar aglow
Gift to kings, cool, impassive gold
Frankincense keeps souls in kind sight
Guiding hearts by flames in the night
Myrrh mellows pride and marks mortal kin
Like our brother incarnate, cleansing our sin

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Joshua Fahey

Eyes

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Fortifying Haikus

A bitter first taste
Testing persistence and strength
That sweetens with time

Now a morning joy
Complete with a ritual
Café sin leche


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Joshua Fahey

Blackest Night

Tendrils seeking out warmth to kill
Icicles jabbing the heart and will
Shattered by starlight, by royal decree
Fire needs to burn for it to be free
Pain returns first, then hope and fear
Lends me the grace to serve what I hold dear
With luck I'll perish in brave acts of faith
That last spark a light to banish a wraith
Cursing my eyes to blindness and grief
The doubt flickered out, my love not so brief


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Joshua Fahey

Happy New Year

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Joshua Fahey