Summer haiku

Scent of grass's blood

Veined petals lift grounded brown

As we walk with God

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Joshua Fahey

Doodle Dandy

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Joshua Fahey

Poem Fulfilled

A Tree is the answer to this riddle.






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Joshua Fahey

Friend and Brother

What a dreary day, my friend

So many lives are lost to wander

And in their thoughts appear to ponder

Nothing in the end

      It is a glorious day, dear brother

      Many lives are birthed, are found

      Growing up through humble ground

      Watered by another

I object my dearest friend

To your optimistic blunder

The whole world is being blown asunder

We are nothing in the end

      It is not optimism, brother

      To smell love in a rose's bloom

      To see hope in an empty tomb

      Prepared for another

You are right, sweet foolish friend

Not optimism but sheer madness

Can see joy in grief and sadness

Hope in dismal end

      Am I insane, my brother

      To see Truth with Iris's shades

      As well as non-chromatic blades?

      To accept salvation from another?

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Joshua Fahey

In Memoriam

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Joshua Fahey

Prayer of the bewildered

As surely as I've made my mind

The grass is purple, if it exists

In oblique corridors I find

Many such nonsensical lists

So I cry, hear me God

The purpose of my Wonderland

Is to breathe while dying slow

To believe time reverses sand

My Wonderland's a prison floe

So I cry, hear me God

Kamikaze birds move through

Arachne's woven wonders clear

The poison lies, forgets the true

Til God's breath my ear does hear

So I cry, hear me God

On the merry wind of light

A message for those in chains

A man came and freed wrong and right

By enduring horrendous pains

So I cry, hear me God

This God Made Man (Redeemer King)

Has paved the way to be saved

Trees, beasts, stone, and birdies sing

Fallen man can be behaved

So I cry, hear me God

To take us to His Father's home

He taught us to accept God's Grace

Set up a base in eternal Rome

So any man might see God's face

So I cry, hear me God

With hope and faith I face this earth

The cross burdened on my heart

So I may Love the least of worth

His holy body, I may be a part

So I cry, thank you God

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Joshua Fahey

An Ordinary Night

The scent of cool winds
The battle of small light pins
Beauty in the night





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Joshua Fahey

An Ordinary Prayer

At first peek of the sun

With its promise of light

I praise the Lord

Of Goodness and Right

At last sight of dear Sol

With promise of rest

I thank my God

For the day that's the best

At first breath of the wind

With hope in its song

I praise the Lord

With bell, pipe, and gong

At last breath of the night

As consciousness drifts

I thank my God

Who sees and heals rifts

At first prayer from my lips

With love from a son

I praise the Lord

For all he has done

At last prayer from my tongue

With heart weary of strife

I thank my God

Who gave me my life

All through the day

With every choice

The Lord's at my side

And hears my voice

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Joshua Fahey

Riddled Poem

Aether reach through wood enthroned

Sees all, of Son adore and honor

A child's chatter with chittering jay

Resides and remains, rooting Abba

My eaves ease an evening scorched

What am I?

Answer to this sometime next week. Guessing is welcome.

UPDATE: Answer is posted.

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Joshua Fahey

Ordinary rain

Condescension of spring
Dewy joy of air
Ripples down from angels' bells
Giving life, lifting despair




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Joshua Fahey

Doodle Dandy

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Joshua Fahey

An ordinary haiku

A visit from

Darkest roads traveled slow

A simple smile

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Joshua Fahey

Pentecost

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Joshua Fahey

Pentecost Vigil

Hiding in the comfort of friends

Darkness surrounds and fear rends

The only action left to us is prayer

We cannot sleep. We do not dare.

The windows closed and the doors barred

Even fighting for hope is doubly hard

Our very breath is stale on our lips

No longer men, but lads and wimps

A thunderous barrage of silent wind

Surrounds all of us here who have sinned

A smile alights from the Blessed Mother

Then flames alight on each brother

The holy God's grace opens the door

Windows unbarred, we leap from the floor

His Spirit speaks out and prophesies

Three thousand souls saved from the Father of Lies

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Joshua Fahey

Fifth Glorious Mystery - The Coronation of Mary

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Fourth Glorious Mystery - The Assumption of Mary

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Third Glorious Mystery - The Descent of the Holy Spirit

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Joshua Fahey

Second Glorious Mystery - The Ascension

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Joshua Fahey

First Glorious Mystery - The Resurrection

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Joshua Fahey

Ascension

Alleluia, praise, glory, and song
Bells of all churches ding, dong, ring
Calling all people to join along
Delivering love to those right and those wrong
Everyone's joy and gladness we sing
For Christ our head has gone on
Granting the Church to prepare for the King








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Joshua Fahey

Yellow Hat

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Joshua Fahey

Flying

Breathing banks of billowing wind

Feathery flight, no fear forever

Hovering and hoping in Heaven

Seen no sights like this since

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Joshua Fahey

Doodle Dandy

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Joshua Fahey

Random rhythm

Jumping joker with a blue jay

Mendacious molars memory may

Juniper, Jove, and Judge Grey

Dancing today

Imperious peril pouncing per pound

Sincere cereal striking silent sound

Pluto, Peas, or Perseus on ground

Heeding the hound

Walloping wisdom with whispers and wen

Capricious cakes collected through ken

Wyrd women (with whiskers) meet Wisdom in fen

Persnickety pen

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Joshua Fahey

Hairy Consequences

Chaos within sin

Reparations underway

Combing out tangles

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Joshua Fahey

Give praise to the Lord

Praise the Lord who made all things

Praise the Lord who sustains all people

Glorify the King of kings

From lowest vale to highest steeple

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Joshua Fahey

Doodle Dandy

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Joshua Fahey

A musing rhyme

Fiddlin' farmers freely prancing

With their wives they go a dancing

Squigglin' squabblin' squeezin' square

Come tap your toes if you so dare

And mixin' with that meddlin' music

Praise the Lord with glorious prayer

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Joshua Fahey

Poem Fulfilled

A Cardinal is the answer to last week's riddle.


Congrats to the anonymous commenter who got it right.




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Joshua Fahey

A haiku a day...

Darkness, fog, and mist
A dismal outlook surrounds
The risen sun lifts





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Joshua Fahey

St. Joseph the Worker

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Joshua Fahey