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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Joshua Fahey

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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Joshua Fahey

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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Joshua Fahey

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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Joshua Fahey

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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Joshua Fahey

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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