Happy Advent!

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey 

My Many Errors

My many errors and intended malice
Do not see them, O Lord
Lead me to your divine palace
May my heart ring with your word

Come my liege-lord, train me steady
That I might serve you in your empire
And that I may be always ready
Burn my bones with angelic fire


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Joshua Fahey

Unrested

Home is where the heart is
And where the immune system is tested
But you can tolerate the madness
If you can tolerate being unrested


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Joshua Fahey

Happy Thanksgiving!

With red sweetly pucked
Berries crammed to solid mush
Save some for me


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Joshua Fahey

Turkey

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Joshua Fahey 

And While the Trees are Sleeping

And while the trees are sleeping
There she walks alone
Among the willows weeping
To the empty throne

Empty of the royal hearts
For all are sleeping now
She walks about the quiet parts
Dances, then gives a bow

To the angels watching, hark
Listen to the song
Of the woman who walks in the dark
Remembering the strong


God bless,
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Joshua Fahey

Alliterative Lecture

Fearsome fiend of fickle fervor
Needing none in nettling naysaying
Save for serving the same shit oneself
Dubious doublecrossing doubter
Heed Heaven 'fore Hell has you


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Joshua Fahey

Divided

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Joshua Fahey

Am I Left or Am I Right?

Am I left or am I right?
Am I a simple meek little sheep?
Where will I stand that last night?
What will my actions reap?

Will I be attentive to my God
In his million masks in the street?
Or duck my head in cowardly nod
To keep my life nice and neat?

When the Son sets at last
Will I have loved Him like I ought
Or will I be under a spell I cast
Among the finite works I wrought?


God bless,
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Joshua Fahey

Memory Leak

I cannot recall
What I ate this past week
It seems I am a victim
Of a memory leak

Beholding thoughts of food
Which when I try to seek
I encounter a hole
Where my memory leaks

It worries my heart
My body is weak
Perhaps I didn't eat
And I have no memory leak?

Sorry, we were talking
Think me not a freak
But what were you saying
I've had a memory leak


God bless,
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Joshua Fahey

The Tension of Drama

The tension of drama
That tautness of laughter
Relentess joy
Up through the rafters
Ringing a belfry
Dusty and stale
By a boy
Cheery yet pale
Enlightening the darkness
With mischievous light
Riding silent and coy
But not fearing a fight


God bless,
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Joshua Fahey

Numbing Air

Numbing air, halting prayer
My fingers move along the beads
Cuffs of steel, a bitter meal
Walking down the reeds
Walking with my brothers
Down on through the reeds

Youngest one, a woman's son
The woman who now pleads
Riders slow, whip us go
Walking down the reeds
Walking 'way from mothers
Down on through the reeds


God bless,
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Joshua Fahey

Violin

Strung so bold and taut

Taught the life that angels sung

Sing a melody so simple

Simply within my soul it rung

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Crystalled Life

Crystalled life, formed and framed
Every one our brother has named
Pure pyre of frosted flame
Signaled snow, recall his name
Silent breath of the holy Lord
Surround me with the eternal Word
That I may dance with as much glee
As the angels serving thee

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Buried

If a friend lends you some grace

Do not bury it in a darkened place

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Past

Past of past of past of past
The darkness in my heart won't last
And though the struggle mayn't be over fast
Down the darkness drowns into the past

This my hope for all the pain
In my and my brother's heart the same
In our mother's heart as she watched the bloody train
My hope that joy will overcome the pain


God bless,
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Joshua Fahey

Cold Haiku

Numb skin, cold and wet
As down comes the white north wind
Traces of angels


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Joshua Fahey

A Silly Thought

A silly thought entered my head
What if I never went to bed?
No dreams for me it seems
Rather books in heaps of reams
My imagination teems
With thought, creative wrought
Chasing the crook uncaught
Untwisting a twisted plot!
Oh, how I dread going to bed.


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Joshua Fahey

The Nature

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Joshua Fahey 

Battered Pig

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Joshua Fahey 

Harried Winter

Harried winter hastens fast
With flurried snowflakes ferried forth
The season that comes upon us last
Descends on us from the north
Nature with her chilly cast
Brings the play to an end at last

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Lateran Haiku

Tap cling shatter roar
Do not desecrate this house
Respect the temple




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Joshua Fahey

In the Darkness of the Glass Filtered Sky

In the darkness of the glass filtered sky
Illusions sweep around the desolate
To keep thought away from my
Character flaws so petulant
Causing my soul imperilment
So before the cross stand I

My bridegroom whose every scar
Every cut and bruise and groan
Shows to me just how far
He’d go to carry me back home
He’d carry me with every burning bone
With every drop in his reservoir

Lord I beg you to let me let you
Help and heal this lowly dust
Pierce this wretch’s stone heart through
And grace with a seed of trust
For before I leave this earth I must
Learn to love, O Love, as you

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Grin

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Joshua Fahey 

Pieces of Eight

Flittering air, glittering glides
Down a spiral, down it rides
Resting on a demon's throne
'Pieces of Eight' is what it crones
It tempts the damned with 'Pieces of Eight'
To a cursed and lonely fate


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Joshua

Ever Riddling

My color never wavers
But in winter I’m revealed
Dressed in candied flavors
And keeping gifts concealed

Answer is here

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

A Voice Raised

Ever thought a voice though raised

Sounds as silent as the grave?

Or a heart full of concern

Can do little more than learn?

But I believe the Will does dare

To use that most powerful weapon, prayer.

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Giant

None of the swarming giants
Have passed the height compliance
Advocated by the giants
Who have not shown defiance

And yet the shame to comply
Is great, which does guilt imply
While giants are forbidden to reply
Without a new height to apply

And any giant implying scent
Is immediately asunder rent
About the Christian blood that was spent
By past generations that did not repent

Though the current giants cannot recall
About spending blood at all
They spend time under the thrall
Yes! The watch of Them et al.

They that hate the giant race
Their own giantness They do not embrace
And seek to rout out anyplace
That reminds Them of Their true face

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Dead

Brother on the tree

Suffering for my soul

Your pain and suffering

Endured to make me whole

And when death found me, my freedom

Back from the devil you stole

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey

Happy All Saints!

The sweetest prayers to God are those
From the love our eldest siblings give
While wrapped in blood-cleaned clothes
The first fruits sacrificed so we may live

God bless,

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Joshua Fahey