Paw in Hand

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Night Drinks

Starfish in tide

Moonbeam bathed

The stars have espied

But have not saved

The waves rock steadily

Yet sleep is far

I am most readily

Fighting this war

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Attention

My mind compelled to seek out noise

Disturb the silence, start a fray

Ignore the thoughts of another day

Miraculous grace, that chain, destroys

And still the madness, let me pray

For safety against those dreadful ploys

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

A Nose for Doodles

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Hell, Purgatory, Heaven

Imprisoned in the lights of the mind

Caged in a map resigned

To ne'er be found or ever find

Lost and have lost for which I've pined

The shallow pond is burned

And depths of smoke, plumes of birds

The monochromatic painfully spurned

For joyous technicolor peaceful words

What is dark in the light that is bright and is dark

What is clean and chaotic, stupendous and stark

Lively with being, with being I am

Finally present in His Presence, a man

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Bucket Sort

God bless,

>P<

joshua Fahey

Trading in Sells and Souls

What should I sell, should I sell, should I barter

For a lovely slice of bread?

What do the wise, do the clever, do the smarter

Seek before they're dead?

What do I need, do I need, for the Kingdom?

As I delve into the wine

Who shall be freed, will be shriven, in the Kingdom?

Who will be made divine?

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Carry

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Dentist Haiku

Drilling and bone dust

Filling gaps with metal spots

Numb gums, lips, and teeth

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Undead

Variance of a shunned and withered tune

Raised curses, doom, blind, and the apathy of hate

Silencing noise covers the empire of the moon

Habitual zombies walk to destroy others fate

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Catch

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Detached

Misbegotten

Rules, goals, self

Dusty on a shelf

Forgotten

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Harvest

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Idly Drifting

I wished for balloons, and grasped their strings

Buoyed my spirits in blue, red, and green

Sadly the path was ever so down

I gave up blue, now left grasping two

I no longer was holding a frown

Came to like green more than I mean

Always liked red more than I said

So grasping those two as if for my life

Started causing me no end to discomforts and strife

Tried letting off one, the other would stick

(At this point I knew I was ever so thick)

Our Father would need to take these two now

Before I would stray too far away

And died flying o'er all without knowing how

I cannot unwish, but I can pray

For the freedom to have a balloon free day

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Piranha Prize

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Communication

Clarity and style, if to be good

If in the service of truth and love

Becomes nourishing food

Must be humble, with God alone above

But if instead would rather serve the mood

Then doom will arrive with a sudden shove

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Act of Man

Acting in caution, without recklessness

Or acting without courage, in fecklessness

Waiting in patience, without haste

Or waiting without courage, in waste

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Pitcher

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

God of Mercy

Zealous overaction

Stale reaction

Divisive faction

Wrath destroys

Holy contemplation

The next world's nation

Christ's unification

Patience ploys

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Seedling

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Within My Pocket

Within a stone, a universe

Within a rock, an organism

Within a pebble, a philosophy

Within a seed, a home

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Moored

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Hermitage

Within an arboreal den I live

Without, a shade of peace I give

In with the joy of Christ I wake

Out with the Love of God I slake

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Sleepless

Fire in the bed

Darkness at my feet

Rocks rattling in my head

A weary soul cannot sleep

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Heat

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Noise

Flaring wings tease and buzz

Threatening behind their feisty fuzz

Yet God has gifted these to me with thought

Of appreciating what the silent Word has got

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Burden is Light

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Burdened

Crafted for the sacred road

Two legs on four to walk, and walk

He evenly yet unsteadily strode

The very burden of His talk

For us he turns His Face unto

With a smile He asks in love

For us to take His yolk and move

With Him along to Home above

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

By a Hair

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Desert Spit Take

Desert be either hot or cold
Be sweet and bitter and bold
If you do not have any flavorful clout
I will spit you out



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Brew

A small carafe of water
Smaller grounds of beans
Wafting scent of coffee
A familial scene