Christmas Haiku

Grey and biting air
Stealing warmth necessary
Sealing enjoyment

Sun appears and bites
Gives indiscriminate warmth
Joy of the Christ Child



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Christmas Poem

Cold winter’s night for child of the light
Bundled and swaddled, asleep
A hopeful sight for man’s fearful plight
From the union with God, and we weep

In holy blue, with soft, gentle coo
The virgin carries her son
Who will carry for you, the burden we rue
And rise after it is done

He silently prays and in silent ways
A faithful man cares for those two
He either stays or leads them for days
As the angel tells him to do



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Feast of the Holy Family

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Slaughter at Bethlehem

Thousands of Abel sounds
Drench the thirsty grounds
As Herod’s militia pounds
Away from Bethlehem

Thousands of children’s cries
From the village rise
Amidst the mourning sighs
In little Bethlehem

The house that gave us life
Is now filled with pain and strife
And Death still plays his fife
For the souls of Bethlehem




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Eagle

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St. Stephen

Whistle thump thud clack
River of red bleeding out
Deaconite death

No scream, no cry ‘help’
Down with kindness and with prayer
Still praying with love



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Merry Christmas!

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Sweet Mary's Heart

A piercing cry from a newborn
As he tastes the brisk air
The only sound that silent morn
The Son of Man lay bare

The cries stop as quick as they start
As Jesus hears sweet Mary’s heart

Poor and rich, ox and ass
The angels sing and adore
Swaddled babe hold us fast
So we may be a little more





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O Emmanuel

O Emmanuel, savior of all,

Our Brother and our friend

Who started with a wee babe’s call

Into a painful whisper at the end

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O King of the Gentiles

O Rex Gentium, who created Man,

Uniter of Babel’s dispelling

Guide us with your firm hand

To your heavenly dwelling

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Joshua Fahey

Fourth Sunday of Advent

I'll post the O Antiphon this evening (EST).

We're almost there!!!*

*Three or more exclamation marks is a sure sign that CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!!!

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O Dayspring

O Oriens, who relieves despair

And gives hope to those near death

Grant us the light to see a sight so fair

That takes away our breath

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O Key of David

O Clavis David, who unlocks the soul

Free us from attachment to earthly things

From the world that takes its toll

So we may journey to where the angel sings

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O Root of Jesse

 

O Radix Jesse, of the holy royal line

The promised one, who with authority

Comes to us with the divine sign

By being born of pure virginity

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O Lord and Ruler

O Adonai, who gave the law,
Redeeming granter of mercy
Inscribe on our hearts without flaw
Your love for us unworthy



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O Wisdom

O Sapientia, who reveals what is real,

Sweetly order us to heaven

Burn our vices and inflame our virtues

Your words our holy leaven

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Joshua Fahey

Last Path Seen

The last path is seen
The lamp will light up the way
The manger will end

And in dark silence
Jesse’s sprout grows in bread’s home
A merciful child




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Gaudete!

Rejoice!

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A Desert Voice

The subtlest touches
The grand finales
An artist’s blood and sweat
Our path crunches
An angel tallies
The amount of our spiritual debt

And from the sands across the ages
A voice shouts “Freedom from our cages!”
For unto us God has sent
A desert voice “Repent! Repent!”

Insanity whirring
And we reject
Yet the call of freedom sounds
Our souls stirring
Holy respect
For the joy that knows no bounds

Our salvation comes from a simple yes
Shouldn’t we respond with nothing less?
For unto us God has sent
A desert voice “Repent! Repent!”



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Worry

The tree 'thinks' "Please be a good fruit!", in case you can't read my handwriting.

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Hope Haiku

The voice says “Don’t fear!
Come close to me, like a child”
I fall in the voice

I seek to hear Him
To trust without presumption
Eternally I seek



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Another Advent Riddle

String over sticks
Wood over stones
Gives demons licks
Spiritual barebones
What am I?



Answer's wikipedia page found here.



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Lost Sheep

If found please call the Good Sheperd

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Immaculate Song

Sing songs, little one
Songs of the Most High
Sing hope, chosen one
With the birds in the sky

Sing joy, little one
Joy that God will come soon
Sing love, chosen one
He will grow in your womb

Sing life, little one
Your prayers to our Lord
Sing grief, chosen one
For hearts pierced by a sword

Sing songs, little one
Mary, sing them to God
Sing hope, chosen one
With humble honor and laud




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Second Sunday of Advent

Second Sunday! Making progress.

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God's Voice

In the hot air of Talkers
Or the sweat of Doers
Can you hear God’s voice?

In the grunt of Fighters
Or the hum of Thinkers
Can you hear God’s voice?

Or do you hear God’s voice
In silence, under trees
In the quiet, gentle breeze?




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Happy Feast of St. Nicholas

Dropping socks of gold coins. Down a chimney while dressed in red.

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Climbing Haiku

Metal taste in mouth
Limbs melted from climbing up
Lungs burning with music

Rocks and birds singing
Their joy guiding up the mount
Love will reach the top





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Advent Riddle

Built at the start for holding things like bread
Weaving questions around, queries that said
That, ask within me, is my purpose set?
Mystic end of me, the last of my secret?
What am I?



The answer's wikipedia page. I decided to give the answer immediately this time, for a change of pace.


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Gator

This gator is waiting this Advent for a little lamb.

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Advent's Sign

Stones dance up the mountain path
That people to walk strive to great lengths
O Praise! O Praise! To God the King!
Flowers sing and bees give thanks

Birds fly up the mountain path
That repentant sinners dare to climb
O Praise! O Praise! To God the King!
All creatures hope in Advent’s sign



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First Sunday of Advent

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Year's End

Year by year we battle on within our souls
We carry crosses and yokes
Our moods both somber with church bell tolls
And jolly with riddles and jokes

Another year will come upon our path
And in our hopes and prayers
By Abraham we stand before God’s wrath
For Sodom and Gomorrah’s heirs

Our lives began, so will our lives depart on time
Yet another dance before then
Another song and sketch, another prayerful rhyme
Another day to love each person





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Path of the Ninja

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Happy Thanksgiving

Thankfulness for what you have

Gratitude for who you are

Humility that becomes a salve

And starts to heal the painful scar

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Doodle Dandy

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House on a Hill

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As We Approach

As we approach the notorious ending
And escape the instantaneous tide
We hear messages the angels are sending
Like a light in the night
While to God, all our secrets, we confide

What to expect from an acrimonious kingship
That the world will have to resign
To that holy romance and intimate courtship
That we laud between God
And the Church through Christ’s proposal line




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High Chair

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The Golden Cities

The golden cities gleam in dreams
We cross deserts, mountains, streams
To see their gleam has dulled from rust
And all their buildings have turned to dust

For dust to dust and ash to ash
Our greatest triumphs gone in a flash
All treasures destroyed, and us brought low
For this world cannot to heaven go



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Doodle Dandy

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Persistent Mists

Taste persistent mists

Walking through wooded pathways

Chilled soul calmly sighs

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Purple Dots

It would be happy if there were dots

Lots and lots of purple polka dots

Like a strange and magical pox

That crept unto the trees and rocks

It would be sad to see them cry

And depressing to hear them sigh

But it would joyful and full of mirth

To hear their laughter at their birth

We could name them everyday

And pray with them as they say

"Purple dots will praise the Lord

Purple dots will praise the Lord!"

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Penguin

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Red Button Blew

Red button blew
Beyond the reach of me
Beyond the reach of you
It fell into the sea

As the snapper snapped
It’s jaws around the hue
Your arms gently wrapped
Round the me turning blue

The sea grew redder still
Then the button in the deep
And I am warmed from your will
Yet quickly do I sleep

Deeper than the sea
Beyond the reach of you
Beyond the reach of me
Where my red button blew





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Wheat

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All things come to an end

All things come to an end
All people last forever
And the pains given for a friend
Are worth it for such treasure

For things on earth will deaden
No treasure here will last
So store them up in heaven
Quickly, for your time comes fast



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Ant and Grasshopper

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See the Ant Work

See the ant work and the grasshopper play
The spider can spy and the mantis can prey
But no creature exists who’s a busybody
So mind your own work, and tread carefully
Lest your relationships sour one day
Follow some holy advice: work and pray






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How About an Answer?

The answer to last week's riddle

Is an Eagle.

If you want an explanation, then comment, I'll comment back. Otherwise I'll assume you thoroughly enjoyed to the point of speechlessness.



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Rock Group

Is this what rocks singing looks like?

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Just Music

The cool breeze sweeps in
Joyfully praises justice
Oaks and elms dancing





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Eight Graves for Seven Brothers and a Mother

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I Can Not Believe

I can not believe
Except that He believes through me
I can not trust
Except that He trusts through me

I can not hope

Except that He hopes through me

I can not dream

Except that He dreams through me

I can not love

Except that He loves through me

I have sinned

And yet He loves me

I can not repent

Except that He died for me

I can not be saved

Except that He rose from the dead

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Doodle Dandy

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Father Abraham

Father Abraham, heard the Holy Word
Left his home for another land
Father Abraham, heard the Wrath of God
Took his family across Pharaoh’s sand

Father Abraham, heard the Holy Word
Talked with the Lord, for his nephew’s sake
Father Abraham, heard the Wrath of God
Offered his only son tied to a stake



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How About a Riddle?

How high my hunt for prey
That starts in the middle of the sea
That ends in the middle of a ley
Now the end of a pig is in me
What am I?



Answer will be posted Wednesday the 13. Feel free to guess in the comments.
UPDATE: Answer has been posted



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Treasure

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Chaos and Darkness in Kind

Chaos and darkness in kind
Pilfer their way through my mind
Dragon laconically deals
Me as his meal

But Order is not now my friend
It accepts far too quickly my end
It destroys both the knight and the beast
And fasts upon feasts

Lightness and shortness of breath
Lend their way quickly to death
Laughter iconically steals
My soul as its meal

Yet mirth at the same time shall save
Calmness and peace in a wave
The greatest now becomes least
Most filling of feasts

Danger seen shortly before
Red horse runs whose rider is War
Madness terrifically feels
My sanity’s meal

Yet that edged sword of the light
Truth whose steel shines O so bright
Becomes the handful of yeast
In sanity’s feasts






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Up a Tree

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Cries Heard in my Head

Cries heard in my head
Of all those I've known now dead
Names emblazoned in the air
Names which I lift up in prayer






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Lamb

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Family Prayer

Father Adam stay and pray
For your family gone astray
Holy Moses, faithful Job
Pray for us on judgement day

Brother Jesus who died and rose
From His deathly still repose
For your family gone astray
Pray for us and hold us close

Prayer from Peter, prayer from Paul
Grace from Him who made us all
A prayer for Purgatorial souls
From family comes every Fall





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Doodle Dandy

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Teeball

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No smell

No smell, but hunger
For the infinite, to seek
A difficult road to travel on
Reserved only for the meek



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We're so great!

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Crying

Crying, neglected
But the Lord pours out His love
Listens to the poor




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Train Doodle

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Baptism

Marked and made
Holistically whole
Scrubbed clean the stain
Baptismal bowl





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Two Thousand Million Stories

A wall, the tower heightens awe and fear
Two thousand million stories do surround
The aisle endless, breathless still we peer
And gape at magic cages leather bound

Hands reach and grasp that wildness from its ledge
When freed, sweet music resonates and plays
Transforms the soul which nobly gives a pledge
True wonder fills the heart in myriad ways

And when we leave shall these adventures end?
The faeries weep? And dragons' treasure capped?
The lovers hearts stay broken, never mend?
And murder left unsolved? New worlds unmapped?

Can we leave and end the adversary?
The guardian answers "Yes, it's a library."





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Autumn Tree

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The Baptism

The prophet shouts "Repent!
You who are proud and lazy!"
People gathered round him
People called him crazy

The prophet shouts "Be baptized!
The Kingdom is at hand"
People came into the river
People all over the land

The prophet shouts "Repent!
All of you who have sinned!"
A man walked to the prophet
The prophet heard the Holy Wind

The prophet shouts "Be baptized!
Though you should baptize me."
The man smiles at the prophet
And began his ministry






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Judge Scared of a Woman

Quite reasonably so...

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Look Up in the Sky

Look up in the sky
The man with the staff
Raised so high
To bring down God's wrath





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Harry Potter

I wanted to try out my hand at drawing a character from one of my favorite books. What do you think?

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Lady Wisdom

Lady Wisdom gracefully dances
Pierces my heart with truthful lances
Pierces through the Devil's guile
Lady Wisdom's graceful style





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Global View

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Doodle Dandy

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Growth

Movement nuanced, subtle
Made from a small rock
Needing fertile rubble
Water, the key to unlock
Maturation sprouting seedling
The first notes a dryad sings





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No Swimming

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You Know

An imprudent claim

To know what you don't

A losing game

Which winning you won't

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If I Were a Tree

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Pizza

Sweet smoky acid
On round bread with cheese and ham
Thank God for pizza!



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Checkers

The goal is one hop away
For the soldier in his square
Every move a logical play
Every jump a bloody dare

Tenacious enemies move and halt
 A king, from soldier now is crowned
Backtracks o'er foe with deadly vault
Victory comes with all enemies downed

To barracks all soldiers return
The battle has settled, and now tame
Until we start with your first turn
In this war-torn checkered game




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Doodle Dandy

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I Wonder

A wanderer would I be?
I wonder every day
To sail across the sea
Following the sailor's way
Or perhaps the sea of space
To the planets and the stars
It would be a glorious grace
Wandering around afar
I wonder every day
Would I travel across the waste
Visit the Christ-child and pray
Do I wander with such haste?



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The Tree Moved

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An Agreement

An agreement with an open-heart
With the Holy Breath
A discussion that I dread to start
For I dread my death

The innocence of Holy God
The goodness of the King
I fear I am myself a fraud
And betrayal will I bring

My soul has not stopped shivering
Though that's not its form
For I see the Just delivering
Of hellfire and high storm

Yet the face of God looks at me
The face of Christ the Lord
Bloodied body hung on a tree
"With this you are my ward!"

An agreement with an open-heart
With the Holy Breath
A transformation, eager to start
Beginning with my death






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Doodle Dandy

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The Right Question

If you don't ask the question right
The answer disappears from sight
And you never know you truly did
For from ourselves some things are hid




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Angel

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Numb haiku

Terrifying void

Falling down and down and down

To oblivion

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Dreaming

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