Rain Haiku

Pit patter splash
Rubber water union
Under umbrella


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Listen

Stars that peak at sleeping land
Restless earth with owl band
And watch nightlife wake and stand
May not understand
But they listen

Hummingbirds that feed and fly
Hover still, with bees buzzing by
Slow weaving stream with a dragonfly
I sit and sigh
As I listen

Angels guard their children's light
And guide them through the darkest night
Lift them up, taking flight
To prayers and plight?
They always listen


God bles,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Flag Doodle

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Plush and Push

Plush and push, fluff and force
Cute and cuddly coaxes off course
Mire the moron, in new nonsense
Still the stupid in silent suspense


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Hooked

Now I'm hooked after wandering

Every day has prayer and pondering

Let me not get lost

Now that you have this Catholic crossed

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Dream

Leg sunk in bedraggled sheets
Wooden frames supporting sleep
Tired thoughts while my heart beats
And the alarm beeps, an annoying beep
I have a question for the boy
Who led me in my dreams to the chapel
Ivy covered, abandoned like a childhood toy
Listening to questions I can barely grapple
I cannot understand
This strange land


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

I Watch

They say it will not finish if I watch

But perhaps that is what I wish

To know how much patience herself will botch

The plans that patience herself might miss

And so I watch 

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Still Winter Haiku

Though the robin sings
Snow flurries throughout the day
The old man still bites



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Puddle

Down the foot
Up the water
Gone the soot
Scolding father
Rain is good
Below, above
To Dad I should
Respond with love


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Doodle

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

When Life Gives You Lemons

Limes and lemons liquidated
Squeezed and sweetened so stately
Yet the yellow is yearned for by youth
A quarter a cup, coins collected by kids


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Down a Little Remembered Road

Down a little remembered road

At the speed of wind

To the chapel in the woods I fly

While my spirit is lifted high

I've confessed what I've sinned

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Soulless Dream

Smug and darkened building blocks
Shined and smudged timeless clocks
In this city of soulless dreams
Every stone in silence screams

Piercing through the mordern ring
Is a spear of which angels sing
With halberd adorned by a dying man
Eternally in His salvific plan

And what was smug becomes true and bright
What was darkened now glows in moonlight
And time is broken, estranged, transcended
When the God-man, the Word, descended


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Flight

And to be swallowed by a whale

Yet fly beyond my fear and doubt

Not suckered into the safe and stale

But up with holy praise I shout

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Faerie Mist

In a dance of seven trees
The wind shall deign to sing
And while the squirrels reminisce
And birds glide along the breeze
Up shall rise the faerie mist
To let the silver voices ring
"It is time to play!"



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Making Light of Disastrous Thoughts

Making light of disastrous thoughts
Of self-destructing claims
Gives no help to those self-caught
Under demonic aims
Yet no effort on the part of man
Can free the ones it maims
For only One has won those games
Pray for His helping hand


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Three

In three seconds

With three thoughts

Over three years

It is finished

Father forgive them

Into your hands

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

April Showers

Racing along a track so pearly
The trail of a twisted rainbow
Protecting the gold of an elf quite surly?
Only two ways I know of to know
And one is far more fun, though harder
So I'll be taking a drive to the sun, or farther
Leaving behind the snow


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

River of Mercy

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Water and Blood

Cleansed by water purer than light
By blood richer than kings
By mercy so radical, demon's take flight
Wonder that every saint and sinner sings
That every heart rings
With hope tonight


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Upon a Blade

Here's a thought upon a blade

Sprung from hope and lively color

Which e'en makes black dogs fade

And restores one to love one another 

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Raining Haiku

Humid gathering
Midair apparitions spring
Cleansing deep sadness


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Alone

Can it be that I wish this breath I breathe
To be the final one for me to have?
And disappointed that my soul did not leave
My melancholy swells without any salve

Though my Lord has risen from the grave
It seems my soul still seeks to lie with the dead
Rejecting hope to drink the despair it craves
Such perversity fills my mind with dread

But is this dread out of love or loyalty?
I suspect it comes more from resigned fear
My vision is too narcissistic for royalty
Too narrow for even the most foolish seer

My Lord, I no longer know what to give or ask
It seems I even fail my priestly task
This nothingness is all I alone can render
Grant me the grace, at least, to surrender


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Fill

Come and drink your fill

Of light that sings with angels' trill

Of faith so sturdy it cannot be rocked

Of timeless hope that won't be clocked

Of my love drink your fill

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Gaiety

The sound of delightful laughs
Of acquaintances thought to be lost
That cuts melancholies by halfs
And gives flower-covering to paths
Trod by a lonely cross
For it is the gaiety of the company
That is worth this cost


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Happy Easter!

May you all have a blessed Easter and God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Press

Out of darkness came light
Out of waste came form
Law to tell wrong from right
Hope to weather the storm
Love to press through the night


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Silence

And God was silent

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Thankful Haiku

Body wine bread blood
Meal and sacrifice of love
Under the bleak skies

Bleak burden lifted
Embraced accepted and held
Cold ground broken body



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Under

In the thorn and under
Where pride is ripped asunder
Amidst the rain and thunder
Of mankind's original blunder
Behold the man!

In royal robes and under
Where flesh is ripped asunder
Lies the quiet thunder
To repair Adam's blunder
Behold the man!


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey