Party!

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Joshua Fahey

Winter Sleep

Fuzzy wool
Curling ball
Blanketed
As temps fall


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Joshua Fahey

Traveling Together

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Joshua Fahey

Many Voices

Many voices singing in
A choir for the joy and peace
That the Incarnation brought to us
Who sing this sacred feast


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Joshua Fahey

Jingly

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Joshua Fahey

Seasonal Focus

A light so joyous, the heart does flips
A serene aroma, the soul slowly sips
And the chaotic messy world fades away
As Christmas leads us once again to pray


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Joshua Fahey

Merry Christmas!

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Joshua Fahey

Christmas Eve

In fiery gong and shaking thunder
The world shows its place by such blunder
In careful deceit and clever lies
The devil leads to inevitable demise
Still in such dark and murky days
The Child’s simple light inspires praise


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Joshua Fahey

Emmanuel

A merry, humble sinner with a bow
Asks to be saved on Christmas now



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Joshua Fahey

Rex Gentium

A merry world with merry nations
Celebrates Christmas with no reservations


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Joshua Fahey

Fourth Sunday of Advent

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Joshua Fahey

Oriens

A merry break from drake and night
Christmas guides us to the light



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Joshua Fahey

Clavis David

Freedom to make a merry catch
On this Christmas opens the latch



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Joshua Fahey

Radix Jesse

The root of merry joy at this hour
Blossoms like a Christmas flower


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Joshua Fahey

Adonai

My Lord drank and was merry
After a taste of Christmas sherry


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Joshua Fahey

Sapientia

Light upon a merry road
Adventure to the Christmas abode


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Joshua Fahey

Eternal Kingdom

Just when the darkness swallows
The last spark of the final star
When the Devil has won his game
And even he has not wandered far
The song of the angels praise
Solemn glory and holy mirth
Will rekindle by the sacred flame
That's still burning from Christ's birth
From purest hearts to those black as tar
All souls kneel throughout the earth


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Joshua Fahey

Third Sunday of Advent

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Joshua Fahey

Addled Noise

Addled noise thoughts in flight
Scattered day and blurry night
But tunnels end, and nightmares wake
Though stars may hide upon daybreak


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Joshua Fahey

Wrapped in Love

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Joshua Fahey

Majestic Arrival

He comes to us with no pause or stop
Patiently in majesty
Offering life giving wine
Good to the very last drop



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Joshua Fahey

On the Way

Traveling has stressed
Mary who's blessed
But Joe doesn't cease
In helping keep peace


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Joshua Fahey

For the Wash

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Joshua Fahey

Tune In

Not a thing in this world
Can keep my attention for long
Not even coffee can keep awake
Quite like God's grace in the angels' song


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Joshua Fahey

Second Sunday in Advent

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Joshua Fahey

Rays

The sun's rays warm the earth
God's glory is our worth
Our fruitfulness, and our way
His grace guides us as we pray
The sun has set, but hope remains
Of the birth of everlasting flames


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Joshua Fahey

Walk and Rest

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Joshua Fahey

Banished Drowsiness

Awake, uncomfortable awareness
Joyous vision, wondrous fear
Await the coming of righteousness
Cooperate and hold His gift near


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Joshua Fahey

Humility

Humbling, stumbling, vices
The devil's word entices
Falling on our faces
Humbly Christ embraces


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Joshua Fahey

Night Light

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Joshua Fahey

Faith

Desperate

Aware of the height

Feeling the dirt

Requesting still
Not lifting my sight
For healing the hurt
Honored
To even be heard


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Joshua Fahey

First Sunday in Advent

And Happy New Year!



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Joshua Fahey

Victory

Victory, the heavens open
Victory, the flower blooms
Triumphant calls of the sparrow
Empty plots amongst the tombs
Empty as the Devil’s chances
Against the Glory of the Lord
Victory, creation dances
Triumphant is Heaven’s sword



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Joshua Fahey

Dig It

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Joshua Fahey

Happy Thanksgiving

Open my heart so it may see
The music sung most gracefully
By saints and angels guiding me
With thanks I give you glory
Eternally


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Joshua Fahey

Merciful Patience

Merciful patience in gray duress
Countless shapes of fear
Courage in the Lord doling out
Justice beyond my ear



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Joshua Fahey

Swimming

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Joshua Fahey

Warming Hearts

Loyalty that warms
Melts hardened walls
Into a tumultuous sea
Safely as the storm falls


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Joshua Fahey

Crown

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Joshua Fahey

Monarch

Trust in the King
Remember his promise
Today with the King
You'll be in paradise



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Joshua Fahey

Hedge

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Joshua Fahey

Grey, Gray, White?

Fizzy air and fluffy earth
Cold and warm hearth has worth
Time has blurred but left its stain
Sprig of joy, shade of disdain


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Joshua Fahey

Loss and Gain

Precise loss, and general gains
Note little joy, yet many pains
Precise gain, and general losses
See little worlds that the storm tosses


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Joshua Fahey

Higher Rung

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Joshua Fahey

Let the Storms Fall

Let the storms fall and the walls crumble
The rock is steady and does not tumble
The house built on it remains upright
Reliable beacon, a traveler's light


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Joshua Fahey

Fallen Bricks

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Joshua Fahey

One Traveler

All stories have an end
All endings are eternal
Some eternities are infernal
Some are saved by a friend

My friend who is our brother
Our blood, and our bread
Our resurrection from the dead
Our eternal lover


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Joshua Fahey

Water Travel

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Joshua Fahey

Warmth

Warm home and a warm heart
Simple kindness does its part
A light of hope in the mad dark
All acts of Love leave a mark


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Joshua Fahey

Purgatory

Glints and sparks, lights that fade
Glimmers of the stars that played
In dreams and memories to wade
Scattered in the wind

A single note, a whistled tune
Calls away from the twisted ruin
Adventure through the wasteland noon
Time's rhythm softly dimmed

After years alone on a raft
Again on land, a voice that laughed
Joy's and Peace's united craft
Souls free, alive, unpinned


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Joshua Fahey

Suits Him

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Joshua Fahey

Death

Buried, but not suffocated
Surrounded by your holy peace
Cleansed greatly amongst the least
My joy cannot be overstated



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Joshua Fahey

From God I Received Them

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Joshua Fahey

Blessed

My body is a blessing
Imperfect though it be
Imperfectly I treat it
A blessed gift from He
And through the King's graces
Shall shine with Thy glory



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Joshua Fahey

Loot

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Joshua Fahey

Lose

Close to losing time
Another ten minutes rest
Before the beeps again
My waning patience test


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Joshua Fahey

Dunk

A short court and narrow path
Keeping calm and cutting wrath
Step by step by step by jump
And let go, let the ropes slump
A quiet moment of cheer respite
Then again back to the fight


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Joshua Fahey

Half Man, Half Wolf, Half Moon?

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Joshua Fahey

Busy as a Walking Dead

A thousands threads pull
In every direction but
Sanity

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Joshua Fahey

Vantage

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Crowded

Who is the man? What does he say?
Conflicting words trickle through the crowd
Glimpses, pieces, but not the whole
Distortions, shouts, and noises loud

In desperation to know the truth
I climb above the men around me
Upon a a branch I see and hark
To the words that might set me free


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Joshua Fahey

X R Lantern

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Joshua Fahey

Fight at Night

Even in the darkest night
The stars sing their enchanting verse
My blood boils up to fight
On the battleground, against the curse


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Joshua Fahey

Arise

Chasing after virtue
Slower than I want
Stumble, stumble, stumble
The devil and his taunt
Beaten, bruised, and broken
Soul stands thin and gaunt
The devil runs away
From the Holy Spirit haunt


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Joshua Fahey

Evening Zeal

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Wishes

I wish I could, with a straight back,
Greet you, Lord, with dignity
But my eyes aren't blind to what I lack
My limbs are heavy from the chains on me
From down here I beg with all I've got
For your peace and your mercy
But I calmly accept Justice's lot
I do not deserve to be free


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Joshua Fahey

Let us Kneel

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Joshua Fahey

Keep Me Restless

Keep me restless while I look away
Call me calmly as I kneel to pray
Be my vision for this blind act
Hold me closely, Giver of what I lacked


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Joshua Fahey

In Time

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Joshua Fahey

Seasonal Pun

Dust and leaves floating
Clouding vision with the clouds
Falls the sun, this autumn


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Joshua Fahey

Fear and Pride

Out of fear, my eyes keep shut
Sealed away from sight of the night
Illusory comfort that has brought
My ruin nigh, with nary a try
I beg you, Lord, if not my eyes
At least grant me the courage to stretch my hand
To grasp friend or foe for help
The humility needed to rely not on sand


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Joshua Fahey

The Eyes?

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Joshua Fahey

Poison

Poison that tastes delightful

Is poison that's most spiteful

But even that cannot fight

The plain bread taste of the light

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Joshua Fahey

Keep on Knocking

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Joshua Fahey

Are You There?

This infernal speaker that understands nought
But obeys with unbending alacrity
Though I cry twenty times in a day
Could not save me in a calamity

Yet God, Blessed Lord, who understands all
Commands obedience, worship and prayer
When I cry but once in my lowliness
Shows me His Love and care


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Joshua Fahey

Landing

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Joshua Fahey

Work

Treat the madness with the method
Hammer the nail, drink the gin
Work the spirit, free the body
Bathe in grace, out and in
Slowly race the lazy hare
The worker, in the end, shall win


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Joshua Fahey

Humbled

Never thought I'd flatten colors
Never thought I'd cool the flame
Never thought I'd give up on God's great plan
Never thought I'd forget my name

Once more I find out my mortality
Once more I discover sin and death
Once more I must repent
Once again I need His love and breath


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Joshua Fahey

Gander?

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Joshua Fahey

Shadow of the Valley

Unable to see the next step

But needing to take it

Easily lifts a gripe on the tongue

Forced to swallow it

Knowing the path is good

Needing the courage to brave it

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Joshua Fahey

Give Him a Hand

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Joshua Fahey

Know and Rise

I know and know and rest and breathe
I arise with the grace to please
With a gratitude that doesn't cease
Though at last they've hung my wreath

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Joshua Fahey

A Head for Books

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Joshua Fahey

Reliable Lunch

Have a little faith
Or a small dash of mustard
Smother the hot dog


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Joshua Fahey

I am not a Saint

I thought I was an honest man

I was deceived

I thought I had a solid plan

Which I've now grieved

I thought I'd do what I can

What have I achieved?

I'm but a poor mortal man

Petty and peeved

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Joshua Fahey

Gazebo

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Joshua Fahey

Call to Thee by Day

Westerly as the winds talk
Down the devil's whirlpool chilled
Eternally hungry, unfilled
Alone upon a hellish rock
Depressions slops, around me spilled

And in the torment a silent mind
Graced to hark to angelic staid
Within a purging tempest find
Pain and suffering does fade
Peace and the Cross eternal bind


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Joshua Fahey

Uproot

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Joshua Fahey

Misery

I wonder how many times I forget
How blind I am, how insignificant my role
And every time I blunder, I remember
And for a little while that humility keeps me whole


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Joshua Fahey

Fresh Pie

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Joshua Fahey

Dust

Bone and dust, ash and rain
A man is made of grace and pain
A child of God is hope and love
The Breath raises dust to home above


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Joshua Fahey

Untwisting of the Heart

That spike that hits the heart
And twists like a bitter knife
Letting pain to do its part
Reflecting on my sin and strife

I wish I hadn't needed it so
That push out the comfort zone
In order to healthily grow
Rather than rot to the bone

Still though it seems the pain a loss
I move and arise from sleep
To pick up daily that cross
And be nearer to thee when I weep


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Joshua Fahey

Tea

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Joshua Fahey

Build Small

Build small trusts, keep small joys
A little light inside the heart fares better than the world's ploys
And when eternal eyes see you
There'll be more delight in the small but true


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Joshua Fahey

An Impassable Chasm

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Joshua Fahey

Fear of the Lord

Do I dare gaze into the eyes
Or glance upon the face
Clasp the weathered hands
Of this blessed human race?
Blest with the image of the divine
An inherent holy trace
Do I dare meet with any pride
Any man's created place?


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Joshua Fahey

Off into the Sunset

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Joshua Fahey

All Nighter Haiku

Sparkly stars abound
In front of eyes dimmed and wide
Wishing sleep might come


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Joshua Fahey

Work to Survive

Buggy go down to town

Horsie don't horse around

Business can boom

Averting our doom

While diligence does abound

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Joshua Fahey

What Did He Say?

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Joshua Fahey

Sometimes I Think We're Screwed

We got the inheritance
Of selfish arrogance
Passing it on hence
In apathetic governance
Sitting on the fence
We destroyed from whence
A lack of recompense
Had caused our injust sense
Lost in future tense


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Joshua Fahey

Bishop and Knight

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Joshua Fahey

A Fool I Knew

A fool I knew (Not I for sure)
Thought he found a penultimate cure
For the ills of the world (which? I know not)
Yet saw that others against him fought

And in his mind (I was there)
Thought such injustice was unfair
And plotted vengeance, death and theft
In the end was left bereft

The point (I think) to such an end
Is to doubt the self and trust the friend
Our God died to keep our sight
Upon wisdom, love, and the light



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Joshua Fahey

Breakfast

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Joshua Fahey