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All bones with all tendons
All muscles with tensions
Work together to move
Work together to live
To grow and to groove
To gasp and to give

All women and men
From one two to ten
Breathe the same air
Walk the same earth
With a rhythmic flair
With a divine mirth

All sinners and saints
All souls without feints
Will enter in fire
Will enter the home
That burns away desire
The desire to roam





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Joshua Fahey

Submerged

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Joshua Fahey 

Spring Haiku

Globes of silver fall

Not frozen stiff but tender

New buds surround me

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Juggling

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Jacket

Just a guy in jacket

Not making a racket

Walking about

With nary a doubt

No goal in mind

Just to unwind

List'ning to birds

Avoiding dog turds

Not climbing some rock

But taking a walk

Through thicket and thacket

Just a guy in a jacket

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Purple-Green Foggy Brine

Trace amounts of gypsum
Lying on a plate
Malady of mission
Beginning to collate
Until a blown out piston
Begins its sordid state
And no-one knows just when
The train is sleeping late
(But perhaps I'm wishing, never not to wait)


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Bridge

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Narrow Road

On the narrow road I pass
Through many pains and dangers
Sometimes a long arduous task
Sometimes a needy stranger

My knees are full of scars
To mark my many stumbles
To show I have survived wars
Withstood my vice's crumbles

On the narrow road I go
For at the end I'll see
Beauty that'll ne'er cease to grow
And Love stretched to infinity




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Joshua Fahey

Light

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Wet Haiku

Water rapping cloth
Shielding from heavenly drops
Bringing lively joy


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Penance and Patience

Penance and patience carry sorrow with joy
A steady beat moving without any ploy
Slow as the turtle step after step
Penance and patience working off debt

The world's heartbeat calms when seen through the eyes
Of one who on penance and patience relies
The frenetic noisemaking of desperate men
Moves to the background when practicing them

Penance and patience carry sorrow with joy
When they are leading to One without any ploy
Slow as a turtle quick as a breath
Steadily guiding to Him who killed death



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Tree

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Sun

Warmth that gathers around and breathes
Suffocating yet needed still
Throughout the day the comfort wreathes
About me as it will

Deserving not of that patient gaze
The heart fills up with guilt
But the fierceness of such gentle rays
Cleanse me to the hilt




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Sheep

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Shepherd

Who would stand before the hungry wolves
Who would watch us every day
Who would guide us eating, sleeping
Who would shepherd us I pray?

Who looks at us with loving glances
Who cares how we rest and drink
Who comforts us when we are broken
Who shepherds us, what does he think?

He whose living water overflows
Whose very body is our meal
Whose suffering helps us grow
Tis Jesus Christ who keeps us real.







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Smile!

A little crosshatch goes a long way.

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Let Them Eat Steak!

Butter the carrots
Platter the peas
Consume the merits
Of herbal teas
Steal seeds from parrots
(On the seven seas)
But if you say please
A slice from a sow
A hunk from a cow
Rabbits and ferrets
And a wheel of cheese
Shall be yours now



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Riddle Bug

Write me
Read me,
Sight me
Heed me,
In your soul I lay
Whilst you play me
What am I?


Bugged for the answer?


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Cake

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A Small Complaint

Whisperer in the grass
Tell me snow has passed
Chortler in the sky
Tell me that thermometers've lied
About the sidewalks glazed in white
On this April night
I remember when spring was bright
And winter quickly died





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Jump!

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Dishonor

Luminous scowls and shining sneers

Allow rejoicing for being mocked

Jesus rose and ate fish by the piers

Despite your condemnation and jeers

Despite having died, with us he talked

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Furrball

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Lily Haiku

Scent of white flowers
Strong enough to wake the dead
Permeate the church



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Strata

Strata of ore, strata of and
Conjunctions joining in a band
Either hits and record sales
Or breaking up in saddened tales
Strata of ore, silver and gold
A line in the earth of wealth so cold
Dug up in a man-made plot
Digging to where the earth is hot
Strata of ore, fossils, and gems
What dreams are of with certified REMs
Rainbow whiskey and deadly elves
Threaten to dispose ourselves
Strata of soul, of ore unseen
Playing with the lines between



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Precipitated

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Scarecrow

Planted next to berry groves
Is the little scarecrow
Watching o'er the fruity troves
Keeping guard o'er every row
From the pirate fowl

Dressed in ragged overalls
Straw hat and leaky boots
Fending sun and stormy squalls
Whilst watching treasured fruits
But no winter shawl

When the harvest comes
And children pick the berries
Leaving no stones or crumbs
To guard. No berry tarries
When tiny stomachs growl

Nothing more to guard this year
So to sleep the scarecrow
And perhaps very near
Watching again he'll go
Ne'er to throw in his towel



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Divine Mercy

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Matches

Match the top as it spins
Like the world that is within
An unjust merciless world of sin
With ever growing din

Match the cross, that paradox
Lets suffering throw us on the rocks
Breaking our chains and locks
To set Virtue's building blocks

Yet He rose beyond my match
In mercy lifts my limiting latch
Cures the wounds from each sinful batch
Love from Him, I catch



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Joshua Fahey

Blue Lady

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Joshua Fahey