Missing

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Memorial

It is safe to rest, soldier
We have watched and the camp is clear
Go to sleep, soldier
We will be watching near

And rise again in morrow's light
When it is the last time to fight




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Body and Blood

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Salem

Peace has sated my soul
Peace from piece of the whole
Piece of bread and drop of wine
Now your body, blood, and soul divine
Not just a piece but your whole
With a peace that fills my soul



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Joshua Fahey

Demon Who's Dreaming

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Polka Dots

Polka dots and pot pies
Triangles with a side of fries
Stripes on tigers and on ties
Joys of the pious and the wise



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Apple

Apple skin that's firm and thin
Moistened with the dew
Tantric flesh is a juicy mess
In my dinner stew
Green or red my taste is staid
None with a rotten hue
An apple slice that's rather nice
I assert as true



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Joshua Fahey

Grass is Short

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Broken Strings

A puppet cannot move
Once the strings are cut
A broken puppet does not talk
Doesn't laugh or strut

A man is not a puppet
For broken though he be
He dances, loves, hopes and fears
And sings so jauntily

But the shards of glass that was his heart
May make him wish he could fall apart

A puppet cannot move
Without a man to move it
Lying prone in a heap
Is the only thing that behooves it

But a puppet cannot heal
Unlike a man of grace
Who surrenders in the place
To eat the heavenly meal


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Joshua Fahey

Trinity Knot

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Indivisible

One is indivisible
But One is not alone
A trinitarian riddle
Truth, revelation shone
A light on for mankind
Whose finitude is prone
To oversimplify. Blind
To things not fully known

A mystery shall be
Father, Son, and Ghost
Three in one, one in three
Our theological toast
The one nature of the divine
Will and knowing to the most
Revealed in his eternal shine
Three persons make that boast




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Rat on a Wall

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Nap

Blanket arrayed

Over every verdant blade

So that clouds may slide

On Dreamland's ride

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Is the Riddle Armed?

Sincerely and with diligence
Do I stand for you to sit
Encircling fancy light shows
That have not an once of wit
Or hiding beneath platforms
That hold steak and pie or writ
Of excellence or of horror
My low role, my supporting bit
What am I?

The answer's entry on wiktionary


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Joshua Fahey

Rose

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Fun to Say, Not to Do

Forward funk of flibbet and fly
Down dins dangling in the distance
Cause creatures caught uncaressed to cry
Making monsters moving in the mist hence



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Joshua Fahey

Happy Pentecost!

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Down

Pull me down, deep down, beneath the river
Pull me out, way out, away from me
Receive my song that I received from your Giver
Filling this cavern that is my heart with your sea

Pull me down, way down, beneath the surface
Let me drown, let me die, so you'll be free
Purge in fire all that deny me to your purpose
Let me burn so that my eyes  may rest on Thee



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Joshua Fahey

Hungry?

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Summer Food

Chill the beans and fry the corn
Salt and mustard in a swarm
For such feasts is why I was born



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Regress

From the west my shadow trails
Upon an iron horse's trails
Whose haunting smoke and piercing wails
Are moving east

From the sands that my feet trod
Keeping time for only God
And when my hands rest on my steel rod
Your time has ceased

Coyote yips at the rising moon
The demons will be coming soon
But they'll dance to my leaden tune
On this iron beast



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Joshua Fahey

Dreaming of Escape

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Sigh

It is a wonder to take in air
That lifts a body with its soul
Then releasing it as we dare
Fulfilling the invisible role

It is amazing to take a breath
The ribs expand and lungs fill
And when the air again has left
The ribs still aren't standing still

Hardly thinking of each intake
Until the last we take


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Fly Home

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Ascended

Home is the fox's den
Where kept at bay
Are the wolves and men
Who've gone astray

Home is the bird's nest
Where kept in safety
From enemies' wrest
Are sweet babies

But for the son of man
No place to lay his head
For his adopted clan
To home He's gone ahead


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Late!

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Cold

A chain that liberates
A bond that bursts the gates
Freely entwining fates
When love comes out to play

And when that fire is dim
Flaring only at a whim
Left to sink and swim
Left in frozen straits

The frigid ocean churns
With a love so cold it burns
A Vulcanic heart that yearns
On a volcanic rim

A calculated fray
Into helplessness I stray
E'en night has turned to day
When my stone heart learns



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Spatial Lockup

Disaster in planning an escape to the stars

Has relegated me a castaway on Mars

A prisoner in midst of green men's wars
A disaster ending behind old bars

Stranded on alien soil my strange form
Deviates from accepted Martial norm
Whose appearance instigated such a swarm
More spears than lightning bolts in a storm





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Castaway with Staff

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My Place

The growing arms of shade extend

Over me like an old friend

I lean in need of support and strength

On the whole oaken length

And last, my book in a slow creep

Goes down my chest as I sleep

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Joshua Fahey

Sound Glorious

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Joshua Fahey