Mind Games

Vicious vapid vile vermin
In my head I must determine
Learn the lout's location lest
It remains when I take my rest



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Joshua Fahey

Elementary Praise

Relentless wind always moving

Never ceasing its whipping raid

Enduring rock never moving

Always waiting, its being staid 

Purging fire always climbing

Never ceasing its warming blaze

Cleansing water never climbing

Always flowing in every phase

Bless the Lord, fire, with light

Bless the Lord, wind, with flight

Bless the Lord, water, with depths

Bless the Lord, rock, with steps

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Joshua Fahey

Motorcycle

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Joshua Fahey 

River

A river of stars leads me away
To the place where trees shall play
With fruits and lights and much ado
The dreams I have in my canoe

A river of flowers, a river of blood
Sacred hours for a spirit of mud
Prayers in peace and wholesome grace
Guide me through this rivery place



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Joshua Fahey

Yoke

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Joshua Fahey 

Calling

Every tool made of wood
Burns for my final meal
Every tool made of metal
Given for the commonweal
Every tear drop, drop of blood
Is the Spirit's for His seal

This my testament
This my will
I shall die
Pay my bill
So Christ might live
Within me still




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Joshua Fahey

Want Sssome Delicious Apples?

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Joshua Fahey

Fish Story

Carps in the backyard pond
Give generational paternal bond
A gift to hear an elder's tale
Of how, once, he caught a whale


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Joshua Fahey

Movable Shade

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Joshua Fahey 

Polls

A man came up to me and said
The polls say summer has ended
All replied with a 'Splendid!"
And the wardrobes were amended
The fields no longer tended
Until we all were dead


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Joshua Fahey

Law is Made for Man

Tyranny is all it takes
To minimize the doubtful stakes
To quell surprise to banal hum
And keep movement at steady thrum

Tyranny of the mind
Keeps thoughts clear and of one kind
Chains emotions into cages
Enslaves one's will to paltry wages

Liberty on the other hand
Is most dangerous in any land
Thoughts of any hue and draught
And emotion may be more than graft

Liberty obliges rules
As building up obliges tools
Yet again and again gives surprise
At color, laughter, and the sunrise



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Joshua Fahey

Daddy's Shoe

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Joshua Fahey 

Brother, You Said

Brother, you said you had to die
With a grimace and long sigh
And suffer greatly too
So I asked you why
And while my heart was growing blue
I asked if I could be with you



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Joshua Fahey

Cat nap

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Joshua Fahey 

Breathe

Do not worry

Do not fear

Sun is shining

Sky is clear

No more pining

On the pier

Stop the flurry

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Joshua Fahey

Riddle

I shackle when in jail
Bound and binding without doubt

I am anchored when at sail

I am linked within, without

And metaphorical me

Is broken when you are free

I've roped these clues, so cry

Out the answer to what am I?

Here the answer is linked

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Joshua Fahey

Sea

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Funny

Funny how a lie can get in your head
In the back of your mind sinking like lead
Subtle as webs and sticky as sap
Til water is poured and God gives you a slap

Funny as death how such poison is fed
I think it over while lying in bed
A blindness that soaks right into the soul
Cutting me open while I'm thinking I'm whole

Funny indeed to the devil that laughs
At this fool's stumblings, bleedings, and gaffes
While speaking and moving as if nothing is wrong
The laugh of the cruel rings out like a gong

Yet that laugh rang hollow and had its last fill
At the man who walked, broken, up Calvary Hill
Who offers me real food and gives me real drink
And a peace that comforts and allows me to think



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Joshua Fahey

Scent of Forgiveness

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Joshua Fahey 

Libera

I saw her but I did not see
Life overflowing from the tree
I was blind or else I'd flee
From an image of thee

I saw myself but did not see
Below the surface of my stormy sea
My blindness prevents you to be
Showing through me

My eyes are open, my soul is shut
Behind a wall so I may cut
To shreds my being, but
You can take me out of this rut

Please make me free
Of running from thee


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Joshua Fahey

Hungry?

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Joshua Fahey 

Presence

Nothing left today to write
Nor more walking, nor more light
Nor more duties, nor energy pent
Just some time in silence spent



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Joshua Fahey

Paralysis

In sleep, that paralysis of act
Where even truth loses fact
But still we make that deathly pact
In order to revive

In fear, that paralysis of thought
Where an act is not as ought
But still we accept our lot
Such caution to survive

But then in peace where act and thought
Bind themselves in pact as ought
Ourselves in wholeness, tactful got
A way to think and thrive




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Joshua Fahey

Cold and Hot

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Small

Under skies so vast and clear

The stars so great and I so mere

Yet look at who has fallen here

To shed our tears

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Joshua Fahey

Arise Little Ones

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Joshua Fahey 

In the Wrath of the Storm, tis but an Hour

In the wrath of a storm, tis but an hour
Then the sun break through kissing a flower
The wrath is of love and so is the kiss
Water of grace and rays of his bliss




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Joshua Fahey

Five Stones

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Joshua Fahey 

June Haiku

Embrace of the light
As the silence rains down warm
While the skies are blue





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Joshua Fahey

Fear

Terror of what could be light
Opens the eyes of fright
That may reveal what's in the night
So we close our eyes
And sleep, and weep for noise
Distractions in the form of toys
Or interactions with girls and boys
We hold to lies
And yet that quiet voice calls
Through even the noisiest walls
"Come home! Turn back!", it falls
On the ears of the wise



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Joshua Fahey