Trinity Sunday

What is, is thrice

Thrice good

Thrice beautiful 

Thrice true

For you love me

And I love you

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

An Odd God

Do you think that any other
God would become our brother?
Be born to a human mother?
Teach us to love one another?
Then die on a cross?

Do you think it common then
That gods would deign to become men?
Care for the welfare of a wren?
Free wretched souls from sin?
By dying on a cross?

An odd kind of God for sure
Would surrender himself to torture
Offer us his blood so pure
As a medicine for sin, a cure
The fruit of the cross


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Umbrella

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Rain Haiku

Stifling heat is

Welcome whenever you are

Dancing in the rain

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

I Sit

I sit
wheels spinning in my head
I sit
as still as the buried dead
I sit
cannot go to bed
I sit
wheels spinning in my head



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Glass

I feel at times like a glass

That isn't half empty

Could use a filling

Of grace and class

Instead of chilling

Whilst remaining empty

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

The smell of copper, the taste of iron

The smell of copper, the taste of iron
Suffering through searing pain
Yet moving onward, marching forward
Through the missiles of death's rain



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Holy Water

Holy water that helps me grow

Guide me to the sun you know

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

The Bird Flies in Sunlit Skies

The bird flies in sunlit skies
And lands under clouded weather
Comforting the child's cries
Giving the grace to withstand better


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Grateful

What could be done to reflect

Upon a world with no joy or respect

Rather to dance in the wind singing out

That is a grateful thing to be about

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Flower Haiku

Under dampened grey
Enduring through long cold night
Emerges color


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Movement Paradox

And still up to the silver moon
The arrow flies halfway there
And may never reach her
Unless she let's down her hair

And though wisdom I may chase
Her good grace I implore
And she won't stop moving
Always leaving me wanting more


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

To the Light

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

A Whistle Ending in a Bang

A whistle ending in a bang
A clear metallic note that rang
Another and another clang
While all the men working sang

Another spike into the earth
Another rail for rich mens' girth
Another strike for progress's birth
Another hammer with bloody mirth

A swing with angelic reserve
Takes the train around a curve
So that machine and magic may serve
The men who have such stubborn verve



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Butterfly on Finger

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Even Though I Cannot See You

Even though I cannot see you
Nor can I feel your scars
Even though the Holy Spirit
Is as touchable as the stars
Let me burn all the brighter
Melt me in your fire
For that one day I'll meet you
And may you lift e'er higher


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Strung

Strung just right (not too tight)

For a song of joy in sorrow

Allowed to sing to the king

Until warmth of light tomorrow 

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Stormy Haikus

Peering sparks reveal
Lightning of misty visage
Tears gracefully fall

Sadness that melts bones
Destroys via flooded grave
Yet cleanses one's sight

God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Consumed

Cleaved in half, my soul in battle
One half in darkness, in misted night
The other half in weak faery light
Towards my integrity will rattle
This civil warring essential fight

And who wins? Will dust settle?
May I lose, may I win, is goal
Grace leaks out like from a cracked bowl
And unlike the tin man, I have no mettle
No ambition towards building the whole

Yet loved I am, by the man crossed and broken
This shocks me more than Mjolnir of old
And freezes with fear more than Antarctic cold
For I burn with every word He has spoken
Purged into a unified, beautiful mold


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Note

On a blue note

A harmonic low

In a rhythmic rote

Yet a glorious glow

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

A Sip of Tea

Just take a sip of tea
In the midst of any sea
And you'll calm down quickly

Take a bite of cake
With lively song you'll make
A smile for goodness sake

And a little prayer
Mixed with a little care
Is like to a breath of air

A ritualistic meal
Will surely swiftly seal
Any troubles that you'll feel



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

An Island

I, I am an island, unconnected to other lands
Yet, I hear the calling, I seek its commands
And in denial of my perception, I open up my hands
Not an island, I am connected, in our father's plans

Though I see me, as unlovable, I know you love me
Though incomprehensible, for me you still plea
In your blood, my shame, my joy, you have set me free



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Plank

Removing the plank from my eye

Removing the darkness from sin

Shortens the painful cry

Of putting contacts in

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Morning Poem

When the dew meets its death
At the angels' soft breath
Of a fog so pure and white
Greeting morning light
That is when I hear a tune
From feathered cantors as they swoon
And glance at rodents climbing trees
The lives awakening as they please


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Now We Worship

Guarded and seized and suffered and shown the door
Beaten and bruised and bullied and knocked to the floor
Mocked and derided with passionate lies
Yet silent he's led and utters no cries

But even death could not hold him
Even death could not cage
The Church that he founded
To start the divinized age

And those shackles that held him, they set us free
That body so bloody that even crows looked away
Yet at his feet, the woman, standing so forlorn, still prayed
Even a Roman could plainly see

Here is our God


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Dragon's Blood

Dragon blood would not taste

As full as the blood of Christ

So my brethren, make haste

To stop Satan in his heist 

Let your souls rise to heaven

On the wings of a dove

Feasting on the body unleavened 

Full of our Father's love

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Balance

Balance is good and fruitful
When balance is balanced you see
But when balance is unbalanced
You might walk around tipsy

God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Just hanging

I am the bar and you are the hanger doesn't roll off the tongue as well

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Every Inclination of my Thoughts

Every inclination of my thoughts
You know before they spark
Every muscle twitch of my heart
Every mystery is known to you so stark
So completely, so thoroughly, so well
My habits mapped in your book
My motives both evil and good
Every intimation you know without a look
And you still love me, cherish me
Delight in the child that you created
No matter how muddy my walk has been
Papa, you treat me as though we're related


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Trap

The hated fear consumes, entraps 

And supports the indubitable collapse 

Into a corrosive anti-epic gale

As the serpent gnaws its own tail

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey