What Is Unaltered Joy?

What is unaltered joy?
What is proper fear?
The difference between girl and boy?
The difference between far and near?

Enclosing madness swirling round
Visions polluting my sinner's heart
Until I think the sweetest sound
Has turned into a noxious fart

The beauty that makes me ache
I only see perverted, altered
From the body broken for my sake
Into an object, my eyes have faltered

And yet my lover keeps on calling
My brother still extends his hand
Even while I'm like Alice falling
Into a maddening world, this strange land





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Joshua Fahey

Oil Can

Useful for dispensing oil. In case you ever get stuck.


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Joshua Fahey

Doodling Still Life

This was meant for Tuesday, I just realized it hadn't been published.

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Joshua Fahey

Prayer

Deep sigh, out then in
Infinite encompasses
Finite surrenders


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Poem Fulfilled

The answer to this riddle is a Shepherd's Staff (although, now that I think about it, crosier would work too).



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Joshua Fahey

Debonair Dude Fight

Doodling dawdling debonair dude
Dapper and down with furious flair
Prods, peppers, and peers with prejudice
Prepared to puncture a frivolous fear
Vying as victor with virtuous vane
Voluminous vermin now fiery few



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Joshua Fahey

Candles

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Goodbye Cruel World

O World, your ground is up and sky is down
Instead of steadying, you flip again, again
Child's cry, blood from a fall, this child's frown
O World, once more you have tempted to sin

Your illusions seem real, but lack any hope
Through your despair I walk, I run, I sleep
Grasping at your candy desperate to cope
My clown's face on, outward laugh, inward I weep

So weak am I, I take the easy street to Hell
Helped, O World, by your machines and smile
Been here so long, I can't remember when I fell
Death and life become meaningless after a while

Yet, O uncaring World, in the grips of your chain
The Lamb's Hope helps me bid farewell to your reign





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Joshua Fahey

The Summer Heat

The summer heat boils my tepid soul
In order to beat some praise out of me
The Savior of my life who makes me whole
Drum, horn, and fife sing of thy majesty




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Joshua Fahey

Doodle Dandy

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Graceful Haiku

Clouds cleared, piercing light
Joy bubbles up through the heart
Piece of Divine peace




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Joshua Fahey

Yet Another Riddled Poem

A piece of wood though I be
I give to sheep a sense of calm
Parting through a troubled sea
Giving courage, guidance, balm
What am I?



Hello, hello? Anybody out there? If you read this let me know. I would like anything you say about how well I write riddles. I would believe anything you say about how terrible my riddles are. Or you could skip that and just guess what my demented mind is trying to describe in riddle form. Hello? Anybody?

UPDATE: Just noticed that I gave no notice of when I'll give the answer. August 28, Wednesday.

UPDATE: The answer is posted


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Joshua Fahey

Rocking Chair

"If a carpenter makes a chair, he can leave and the chair will not cease to be. For the material he used in its making has the quality called rigidity    ...     Similarly if the Maker of the Universe left it, the Universe would have to rely for continuance in existence upon the material He used - nothing." Frank Sheed, Theology and Sanity

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Joshua Fahey

Division

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O Pure Light

O pure light, born of hope's soft breath

Bid thy master to come to my aid

Encompass me before my weary death

Fill me before I fade

O Master of all that was, is, and will be

Look down upon the least of thine

Have pity on my spirit, carry me

That I may be with thee for all time

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Joshua Fahey

Alleluia

Cuz sometimes you just gotta belt it out.

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Joshua Fahey

Assumption

Here is my assumption
In truth I do abide
That God's assumption
of Mary to His side
Indicates an assumption
Of us when we'll have died
And a continual consumption
Of the savior crucified



UPDATE:
  It has come to my attention via the many voices that plague my thoughts that resurrection might be a better word for the fifth line instead of assumption. But resurrection doesn't rhyme with assumption. In fact the only other word I could think of that rhymes with assumption was consumption, which with continual also should more accurately be 'eternally receive' in the seventh line. But again I mention the rhyming, therefore I stick out my tongue at thee, knaves :-P.



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Joshua Fahey

Doodle Dandy

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ACTS

Apostolic
Church
Travels by
Spirit



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Joshua Fahey

Poem Fulfilled

The answer to this riddle is a ruler.

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Joshua Fahey

I Do Not Think

I do not think you comprehend
How evil is my soul
The start of vice, and virtue's end
That really takes its toll

The harboring bay of despair
And a lust-filled fantasy isle
The sloth-full dragon's darkened lair
This bitter truth is bile

The only reason I've not died
In that righteous pagan way
Is that love from the Crucified
That formed me out of clay

A mercy most undeserved
With justice most unyielding
Shows me the path from which I swerved
Leads me with the flames its wielding

The cross for me to choose to take
The cross that's made for me
Is knowing I don't deserve to rake In
the sight of the Trinity




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Joshua Fahey

Grace

Because we can't see clearly without help.


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Joshua Fahey

The Negative Corruption

The negative corruption gathers
With chains and pretty cages
Naught in hell nor heaven matters
As I stare at empty pages

A songless breathless bird
Cold iron around the neck
The ears not seen, nor eyes heard
A soulless deathless wreck

The demons dance their laugh
So dark and dank their feast
Too amused by half
By this poor human beast

Yet e'en such a one as I
Is loved by the Most High




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Joshua Fahey

Doodle Dandy

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Incense

In scent of prayer

From the burning of the soul

From that holy smoke

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Holy Smoke!

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Joshua Fahey

Riddled Poem

My proclamations are firm and measured
And though not sung of by the bard
By the maker they're truly treasured
For announcing yard by yard
What am I?



Answer will be given in a post next Monday, Aug 12.

UPDATE: Answer has been posted here


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Joshua Fahey

Small Barn

I was going to build a bigger barn, but then I read the Bible.

From the mixed up biblical interpretations of Joshua Fahey. Or something. Probably the 'or something'. God have mercy upon me.


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I Put to Death

I put to death my little lie
I put to death the deceptive me
Flying high I am free
With God's breath




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Swamped

I kinda want to try this once.


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Joshua Fahey

Grape

Mental swimming song
This ancient sweet liquid fruit
Lightness is to be



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Joshua Fahey