Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus

True courage is silent and acts
Even while all else attacks
In Love, under Truth charity speaks unafraid
Kindness beautifully prayed


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Joshua Fahey

Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry His Cross

A bee once sang to a dandelion
Of great love as he was flyin'
Toward the work of the fragile flower
And as a friend he lent his power

Lord you asked for my fragile aid
In graceful honor, love has obeyed


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Meets His Mother

Why of all the pains you had already suffered
How did you have the strength to weather this
To see your pain reflected back in her eyes


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Falls the First Time

Greatest God assumed our frailty
Glory silent before our cruelty
Heaven silent, senses silent, fallen silently
Our liberty


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Embraces the Cross

To those unable to raise their head
He bent his body down instead
Lifted the weight the world put in place
To give us freedom, in His space


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus is Condemned

Insult and injustice filed
Silence, meekness, quiet, mild
What the World cannot grasp
Is put into the iron's clasp


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Joshua Fahey

Annunciation

Decay and rot have us chained
Power and pleasure have us trained
Life itself has us pained
Fear has us bend the knee

Tremble bones, fall prostrate
The singing birds demonstrate
Angelic breath stops to wait
For the answer of the Free

A single moment in Breath above
A single child obeys the Dove
A single woman speaks in Love
A single 'Let it be!'



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Joshua Fahey

Clean and Bubbly

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Joshua Fahey

Crash

Crash, smash, boom
The world promises doom
Light, breath, skies above
The cross promises love


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Joshua Fahey

Mud

In the New Jerusalem, Christ's hands wash you!

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Joshua Fahey

Dusk

Darkness means there is light
Day does not mean there is night
Dusk leads us to dawn
Sun rise does not make us forlorn
Death guides us on to life
Baptism frees us from unending strife


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Joshua Fahey

Rollin' in the Money

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Joshua Fahey

St. Joseph

The law is of love
That is righteousness
Frighteningly discomfited
In new courageousness
Acts on an angel's word
In joyous silence
Gifts of the hands
Wood maker's guidance
Steadiness
Timeless
St. Joseph, pray for us



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Joshua Fahey

Powerless

Being powerless
Afraid
Worried
Unable to breathe in peace
Yet able to be held
Being held
Awed
Loved
Peaceful breathing


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Joshua Fahey

Happy St. Pat's ☘️

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Joshua Fahey

Echo Chamber

Echoes abound
Cannot get free
From the sound
Of lil ol' me
Lord please pound
In some sanity


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Joshua Fahey

Well

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Joshua Fahey

Grace in Need

Unsettled with desire in this desert all alone
Mired in a darkness supplied by sand and storm
Hark! A voice is calling who sees this little soul
Offering me comfort, to feed and make me whole
This is a Man who knows me, and knows all I've done
In my desert He is Water, in my darkness He is Sun


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Joshua Fahey

Thorns

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Afeared

Am I afraid? With what fearful flavor?
The fear of chains or the fear of love?
Does it implant liberty to savor
Or have me unable to glimpse above?
Fear of death
Fear of the sword
Fear of breath
Or Fear of the Lord


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Joshua Fahey

Hasten

Let Light shine
Smooth the edges
Hasten lest I forget
But let me not forget


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Joshua Fahey

Old Links

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Joshua Fahey

Pain and Humility

Clarity is salient in pain
Focus easy to grasp
Motivation bounds like a train
But Will is still bitter to clasp
The stoic in me turns its face
At the saintly mention of grace
Puffing a chest out with pride
Puffing a mouth full of snide
Humility is costly to learn
By grace I will learn, or I'll burn


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Joshua Fahey

Mountain Voice

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Blind

Too blind to see the very veil

That covers mountain, sea, and dale

Palace, city, kingdom hidden

And to this blind one you have bidden

A share in the heritage and love

That angels about above

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Joshua Fahey

Coffee Break

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Color, Uncolor, Peace, Unpeace

Spinning grays, moving shades
The same
Nothing knowable in the haze
No one with a name, yet wades
Toward me a shock of color that
Was always there
For those who see
That fire brings with it pain, light, care
Had opened me, offers a hand of rest
To joy! Through the fields of sorrows?
Or back to restless gray?
Wrest me from here!


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Joshua Fahey

Put not Your Trust in Princes

The night has swallowed time
With the chaotic anti-rhyme
And no follower of death
Can find hope in any breath


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Joshua Fahey

Parched

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Journey Through the Desert

Dry the tears
Wash the face
Break the mirrors
Walk the pace
Know that Love is at your side
Comforting
Matching stride
Hear Him sing



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Joshua Fahey

Temptation

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Joshua Fahey