Christ Coming

Minstrels of majestic memory mention
Promises proposed by Power unparalleled in purity
About apocalyptic undertakings honored honestly
A beginning granted to a great age of God
By that Deity who decided to do away with death
Wholly humbling himself to human weakness
Sniping sin in suffering souls



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Joshua Fahey

Happy Advent

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Raise the Curtain

In the wrapping of the ages

By soldiers and by sages

The beginning of the final stages

Of the drama will begin

In hearts open through the embrace

If a faithful hopeful grace

Will the incarnation take place

Transforming from within 

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Gavel

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Happy Thanksgiving

There once was a boy who lived in a cabin
Who, when he grew up, knew the country was saggin'
Under a weight that our selfishness brewed
He established an annual day for gratitude
So that we might remember, remember that we
Aren't only reliant on those that we see
And that thanksgiving is what keeps us free
Let us be thankful for beer and turkey


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Baking Cookies

Pour the milk, sift the flour
Beat the eggs until you're sour
Mix them with sugar and with power
Mix until homogenous

Spread the batter, lick the spoon
Lay out all the cookies of doom
They will be ready very soon
Ready to be eaten by us

Heat the oven, scorching hot
Put in the sheets, put in the lot
Be grateful for a dessert we've sought
Be grateful for the mess we muss



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Joshua Fahey

Last Putt Thought

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Winter

Silhouette in snow sings of madness

For frost to freeze the fearful thing

Collecting cool and cold out of gladness

Icy signs of light the slipping sing

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Christ the King

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Soft as Snow

Soft as snow my soul falls
In great reverence to the king
Whilst the angelic herald calls
And the bells of heaven ring

On my knee I give praise
At the face of the Prince of Peace
Who lifted me out of fear and haze
My gratitude will never cease


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Hope and Prayer

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Nightly Haiku

Halved silver disc

Behind gnarled sleeping trees

Tranquil winding winds

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In a Balloon

In a balloon overlooking the forest

Rests air that is lighter than air

Looking for its invisible lair

Amongst the lightest and the poorest

Leaving behind the oaks and willows

The daisies through which the wind billows

The tulips that would be the envy of any florist

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Troubled

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Colorful?

Encapsulating a soul in carbonite

Into a morass of black, grey, and white

Nary a color in hearing or sight

A deep dark mist that covers the light

Such a suspension can anyone kill?

Lift this monochromatic frill

For a soul is not meant to, in a vale, mill

But rather be a city on a hill

The first color to see is blood-red as the rose

Next an orange glow, then the yellow sun’s pose

Green trees, blue hopes, and indigo grows

And finally we’ll see the violet king’s clothes

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Joshua Fahey

End of Day

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All Good Things

The roots of the last tree reaches
The core of the first it breaches
Until the Chosen One beseeches
On behalf of all God's creatures

"Father!" cries the lion's pride
"Turn away from a destructive tide"
"Father! Father!" the lamb has cried
Within his cry the faithful abide

Down the fiery divine wrath
On the tainted wide smooth path
The faithful protected the lion hath
Those soaked by the lamb's blood bath



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Tweet

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Chilling Haiku

Lord Winter's chilled breath
Flows out as he awakens
Into the sole soul


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Ta Ta Ta

Ta ta ta go heaven's tears
(ta ta ta ta ta)
Lifting me out of my dread and fears
Out of the dark dog's maw

Ti ti ti on the roof
(ti ti ti ti ti)
With a surety as any proof
That men can be as free

Ta ta ta the angel's song
(ta ta ta ta ta)
Letting me drift ever along
Letting my stone heart thaw




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Chase

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Troubling

What troubles me, Lord, about this path
Is the madness of the very earth
That cannot be cleansed with a simple bath
Whose presence dampens even honest mirth

I cannot see, Lord, beyond the mist
Of my eyes that I have clouded in vanity
My ship always bucks with a list
As I sail away from my insanity

Lord, let me see, I beg of thee
That within your merciful heart the blood
May flow out healing as a sea
And make noble this base creature of mud


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What Happens When I Mess With Selection and Paint Bucket

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Root of All Evil

What has love of money done
For all the souls entrapped by luster?
What happens to them after the fun
By the demons is finished and done?
Do they have any wealth to muster?

But look an old woman in poverty gives all
She has, without reserve or regret
Ignoring money's alluring thrall
Responding instead to the divine call
She'll be rewarded when all is done and said




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Waiting

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Aged Haiku

Fall banners of old
Remembrance of warmer days
Memory of life


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Vulgar Politeness

Polite is the meeting, polite the man
Which in the fleeting lively struggle
Attempts politely to arrest the action
Which seeks where Wisdom ran
For leaving a meeting for a woman
Goes against the polite plan

Vulgar is the eating, vulgar the tongue
Which in its seating within the soul
Corrupts that warm and gentle Wisdom
Into a song that's never sung
For leaving off pleasure to hear a woman
Is not where vulgarity is hung

Catholic the vision, and Catholic the heart
Which in its mission is common and noble
Lively as fire and gentle as rain
Plants a strong seed that will start
Growing to God in both man and woman
And burns the sin that keeps them apart




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Western or Eastern

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All Souls

In the longing fire that cleanses my bones
Clears my eyes while my soul atones
I turn my face to your fair city
And a wind cools me from prayers of pity



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Joshua Fahey

Hike

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Joshua Fahey