Measure Twice

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Joshua Fahey

Family Blessing

Blessed is the father by his children and his wife
And may he be a pillar steadying any strife
Blessed is the mother by her children and her man
And may she cherish the hearts placed in her hand
Blessed is the child by the fruitful love
Of a man and a woman blessed by God above


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Joshua Fahey

Paper

A crease, a fold another shape
A few more to make a nape
Then two wings, a beak, a tail
A dove of hope that will ne'er fail


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Joshua Fahey

Festive Nog

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Joshua Fahey

Christmas Cheer

Hope dances in a way that shines
Like light in glasses of sparkling wines
Faith like the aroma of fruitful earth
Love like the warmth in joyous mirth


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Joshua Fahey

Christmas Haiku

At home, warmth around
The world's darkness held at bay
Hope is sown and grown


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Joshua Fahey

Merry Christmas!

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Joshua Fahey

Christmas Eve

Even in the darkest hearts
If allowed in, Christ imparts
Hope in form as humble as
A feeding bowl for ox and ass

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Joshua Fahey

Fourth Sunday of Advent

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Joshua Fahey

O Emmanuel

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Joshua Fahey

O King of the World

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Joshua Fahey

O Rising Dawn

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Joshua Fahey

O Key of David

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Joshua Fahey

O Root of Jesse

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Joshua Fahey

O Lord

With all our being
We serve the Lord
And treat our neighbor
With the same accord
As ourselves


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Joshua Fahey

O Wisdom

On my path
A glow
Of Wisdom
I follow
Where she lights



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Joshua Fahey

Third Sunday of Advent

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Joshua Fahey

Behold the Son

Do you recognize in the whisper of trees
In the glimmerings of stars and the silence of seas
The heartbeat of one who walked amongst these
The Son of Man?

Do you rejoice in the labor and sweat
The changing of seasons and death’s timely threat
The glory of He in whom fear abets
The Son of God?


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Joshua Fahey

Night-time Coffee

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Joshua Fahey

Under the Sea of Stars

Under the sea of stars
Drowning amid dreams and nightmares
Possessions and wars
Over temporal worries and wares


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Joshua Fahey

Whittle

Whittle whittle away
Let my vice decay
And by enduring through the pain
Keep me hale and sane


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Joshua Fahey

Napping

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Joshua Fahey

Always Someone Who Has it Worse

Valued as priceless
Yet dull as stone
An idiot uselessly
Trying to atone
Yet every inch up
From the pit
Is two times messed up
Falling back into it
And then a light shone
On the soul at a loss
A voice calls "He'll be born,
Who'll die on a cross"


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Joshua Fahey

Second Sunday of Advent!

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Joshua Fahey

Calling

A call for kindness in a world of cruelty
A call for justice in a world of rage
A call for peace, and a call for patience
In a world where war and greed engage
In a world of sloth, a call for persistence
In calling for Christ in the world of men
A call for the cross, for the innocent, the babe
The call of God for the forgiveness of sin


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Joshua Fahey

Happy Immaculate Conception

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Joshua Fahey

Drenched

Drenched in a cold storm
Every thread of fabric biting at the heart
Every fragment of bone rattling apart
Such a fragile form


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Joshua Fahey

Winter Day

In colored winter quilted suits
Like bright and merry winter fruits
Down the frosted hill at speed
On a trusted wooden steed
Ending such a winter day
With much joyful winter play
Is something so unlike to snow
A mug of heavenly hot cocoa


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Joshua Fahey

Home

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Joshua Fahey

Darkness

When the sky is like smoke
Choking the light
I have faith and I have hope
In the end of the night


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Joshua Fahey

First Sunday of Advent

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Joshua Fahey

Light's Advent

How long does it take to wait while still
For the sun to come up o'er the hill
For that first light on us to spill
Keeping ourselves awake? How long do we wait?
We anticipate eternity as our fate

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Joshua Fahey

Birds of a feather are worth Two in the Nest

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Joshua Fahey