Playing Pure Puerile Pastels

Playing pure puerile pastels on the paper

Elicits laughs lightly lilting across the lake

Causing crashes crushing criminals on a caper

Who borrowed beauty to build so as to break

Were that words would wend such wildness

Versus the viscious villains vying for violence

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Joshua Fahey 

A Shoulder to Cry on

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The Leaf Lets

The leaf lets the wind change the journey
But the end is still the ground
The direction is still down
For no matter how the leaf is turning
The leaf shall fall

The flower receives the sun's awakening
And the end is the sky
Where the sun sits high
The flower is giving no forsakening
Just growing tall



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Joshua Fahey

Bread

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May I Bless

May I bless others with my words
While I wear your name
And never curse or destroy or worse
Lest it's you they blame

May I bless others with my hands
While you're in my heart
And build up your body in many lands
And the good news impart

May I bless others with my breath
With the presence you've bestowed
From my baptism to my death
Grow this seed you've sowed



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Joshua Fahey

Sleep Tight

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Fear Haiku

Empty breathing of air
Stillness moving in the dark
Paralization



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Silent

Hold the praise, stop the applause
Take him back from out of death's jaws
For above our dreams and under our laws
We are silent now

Juggle the rocks, and tumble the rolls
With far more joy then burning coals
And yet, despite working toward our goals
We are silent now

Bending the knee, bending the heart
Bending our head is where we start
In silence, listening to what he shall impart
What he shall endow



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Joshua Fahey

Treasure

What treasure would I sell

For the treasure of your love?

This angelic bell

With its unearthly knell

Could not compare with a moment above

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Adventure

To the end of the ages
Towards the start of being
An eternal flower grows
The adventurer engages
With a red heart beating
Where the mouth of magic flows



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Joshua Fahey

Sometimes Beds Seem Bigger

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Betrayer

Every lie a betrayal to me, who seeks
That which is real, whether knowable or not
To know everything, my aim beyond understanding
Every lie is against me, is a plot
Even the lies that I tell myself in the dark
Even I have betrayed myself for all I've got
Yet for me you let yourself be tortured and killed
Give me the grace to forgive myself and the others that you bought



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Joshua Fahey

Casual Thinking

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Starry Haiku

Bright eyes winking
Gazing, absorbing, alive
Singing a song



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Banshee

Under old bridges and over new tombs

A disquiet, a mist, a destruction looms

And pierces souls as strong as trees

And leaves rotting stones that freeze

A glum gloom that ghosts through the woods

Wily creatures run without their goods

A screech that holds all the sacred still

A banshee cry, who dies? Someone will

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Cooking

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River

To the river and the rock I stroll
Casually, with humble air, I gleam
Passing softly by a faerie knoll
Carrying pen and mind and ream

Quietly with little flair I write
Of the dance of river grass
And yet swiftly my paper supply is light
And more time than I know does pass

So back from river and rock I walk
Satisfied humility on face and ream
Listening to the most wondrous talk
That lent my heart and eyes a gleam



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Freed from Chains that Bind

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Loyalty

On the field is loyalty
A creature that would never be
Without faith and hope that see
What thee hast given me

On the field I ask, my Lord
To smite my cold heart with thy sword
That by my sins has been bored
And heal me by thy blood, my Lord

On the field I live by thee
Please save my life most graciously
Grant me thy love eternally
Let me give thee my loyalty



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If I

What my eyes would see

If I could see as thee

What my heart could know

If I would in thee grow

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Night Walk Haiku

Softly cooler nights

Gives a haze to moonlit walks

While the birds sleep

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Waiting for a Change in Weather

Await

the rain

in a deciduous trait

so plain

and yet

so true

and full of the dew

anew

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Stage Fright

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Weird

Mildew sits and dreams of life
Upon a slice of bread
But its still stuck on a wall
And will be until its dead

The iron curtain bar with rings
Starts rusting in the air
But this is just the gist of things
And entirely fair

A very strange and somber poem
This is that I've been writing
But maybe a much richer loam
Will cause ideas to come biting


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Joshua Fahey

Beached

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In a Cave of Shadows

In a cave of shadows, lost, is the mind of Adam's kind
Unclear as to what meadows are and no hard answers can it find
But a Jewish handyman can clear the eyes and ears of sin
So one can hear a melody of angels praising and lauding Him
And see all of reality in its awesome terrifying shroud
And think, this wonder is what life means, and praise the God of gods aloud



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Joshua Fahey

St Francis pray for us

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Rosary

A piece of glass
A lump of thread
A knotted mass
Fingers pass
The beads which mark the mysteries He said



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Joshua Fahey

The Thing About Dogs

Llamas might carry a green suitcase on Mars
Unicorns may chomp on white chocolate bars
But the thing about dogs that is so clearly canine
Is when they drink water out of a grown man's beer stein

Queen ants should enjoy both sugar and salt
Kangaroos could jump on bright purple asphalt
But the things about dogs that makes them so dear
Is how expressive they are with their tongue and their ears

They have only to look and rest at your side
To lift you out of your misery after you've cried



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Joshua Fahey

Computing

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Joshua Fahey