Celtic Cross

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Joshua Fahey

Change, Good, Bad, Ugly

Jagged edges weathered down

Look back on a life 'twas keen

But before keeping that infernal frown

Reflect upon the newest sheen

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Small Joy

Fuzzy, foggy, gray, and slow

But now is snow!

Praises grow

Wondrous does the season go

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Swing

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Gloria

Gloria

Praise and glory

Angels sing

Men sing

Of His story

Gloria

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Holy Family

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Christmas

Music in the silence

Vision in the night

Salvation out of poverty

Peace and joy by plight

Divine condemnations

On all tribes and nations

Good news to all Men

Under bond of sin

Covenant to carry

In the Virgin Mary

I kneel, I pray

On this Christmas Day

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Christmas Eve

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Spirit of the Season

Family of spirits

Spiritually familial

Family in spirits

Spiritual festival

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Coming

Flippers swim through the sea

Wings make birds fly free

And the one who made you and me

We’ll soon see

At Christmas

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Sound the Horn

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Ventures of the Young and Bright

Ventures of the young and bright

Through the night, through the night

Singing like the stars, silent

Awfully violent, awfully violent

Changed as e'er night is to day

Zeal to pray, zeal to pray

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Last Candle

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One

Royal one

Little one

Within Mary

Holy one

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Music

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Challenges

Sometimes hitting a wall

Is fun?

But usually makes you feel small

Until you've won

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Worship Space

Walking closer, getting smaller

Space is bigger, light is taller

Lost in space, found by time

Shadows swept off with the grime

Kneeling man, before the throne

Not feeling the slightest bit alone

Bowing head, ashamed of mud

Cleansed by Older Brother's blood

On the tree, see the Man

Now men are free, from His plan

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Bed

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Joshua Fahey

Downward Spiral

Sour bile at the thought

Ending thought

Drowning heart

Fading colors that were wrought

And not ought

To be forgot

In any part

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Joyous Third Sunday of Advent

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Choice

The world speaks nonsense

Listen to God

The world walks in nonsense

Walk with God

The world lives in ruin

Live in God

The world seeks out ruin

Seek God

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Falling

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Candles

Still, aflame

Standing same

Giving of all

Standing tall

In the night

Standing light

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Immaculate Conception

Carrying with love and care

Wisdom, Lawgiver, and King

Only the innocent may dare

To do what angels fear to sing

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Orange

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Social Media

Pitter patter putting thoughts

Chaotically across the dots

Caring not for joy or peace

Noisy world does not cease

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Second Sunday of Advent

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Warned

Warned, we were, that He is coming

To us whose living had been numbing

Hope, we had, for salvation

Not expecting His humble station

Hark to the wind and voice

Of the One who made the choice

Of being flesh

To save flesh

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Fob

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Lazy Bum

Acedia waters and fades

The connections people have made

Into monochromic slime

Rusting in real time

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Calm not Dim

Season separated from power

Seems at first dull and dour

Waiting for a sign of light

Waiting all through the night

Until the burst of living laughter

Will fill the manger to the rafter

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Winged Lion

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Snowfall

Cold and warm, fluffy dust

Signaling that play is a must

Down a sled or built up men

Or war with foe and friend

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First Sunday of Advent

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Ready?

Alert, the rabbit eats

Unalert, the sheep bleats

The wolves seek their prey

The wise seek to pray

And weep

As fools sleep

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Vanity

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No Alternative

Treasure stored is treasure lost

Greed and envy is the cost

Keeping others from anything

Keeping others away and fleeting

Until their simple breath

Causes death

In the heart

With no thanksgiving

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Joshua Fahey

Dreams

Naps and kittens

Moss and mittens

Playfully written

Rascals smitten

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Juggle

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Garden of Hope

Steady hand and patient heart

Building up a loving art

Abiding by the Truth’s clean edge

To clear the brush and trim the hedge

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Crown

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Time Slips by the Land

Time slips by the land

Dwelling in the blessed hand

All the sparkling stars sing

The praises of Christ the King

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Like a Banana

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Red

Drenched in madness imprisoned

Stung by words, the lizard listened

Yet frustrated by cowardly reason

Suppressed in tone, in season

Favored not by fortune instead

Guided to where He bled

Liberty found under a weight

Justice is satisfied, never late

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Black

Wiped from thought

Memories like ghosts and faeries

Steps echo serenely in an alien ear

Anxiety harries

Nothing left to grasp or rot

But nothing left to fear

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White

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Bowling

Alleys of lanes of booms

Pins, unpinned, awaiting their dooms

Balance with force, spinning away

Guttural growls ruin the day

Hefting the balls, black as coal

Friends having fun, we bowl

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Blotted Out

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Change

Universe hidden, protected, small

Buried and destroyed, a fall

Germinates new life in death

Life that greets with warming breath

That which was hidden, magnificently shown

Protected and limited, now beyond the known

Small faith leads through fires and harm

To great rewards, embraces that are warm

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Joshua Fahey

Truth Sleeps

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Imprisoned

Eyes that choose to see nothing

Ears that choose to hear nothing

Mouths that choose to speak nonsense

Brains that choose to think nonsense

Souls in sin

None get in

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Bliss?

Oblivious to secrets

That everybody knows

But everyone forgets

Where Wisdom goes

Is ignorance a crime

Of the finite mind?

Fools condemned to die

Eaten by the crows

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Air

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Eternal

Enervating

Pushing rocks up a hill

Unending

Time blindingly still

Broken

Only by the Word

Spoken

To those who have heard

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Joshua Fahey

Coin Toss

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Gifts

In the gracious emptiness

The light shines out from all

Received and given, generous

Heeding the Spirit's call

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Forge

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Black Hole

Collapsing

Destruction and unification

Stripping of joy into power

Holding hostage

Explosion

Destructive freedom

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Rain?

Dear and playful mates

Within the fence, beyond the gates

I wonder at the darkened skies

And seek to comfort Nature’s cries

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Joshua Fahey

Resurrection of the Body

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All Saints

Brothers and Sisters,

Pray for us

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All Your Heart

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Not Far

How close to be

In order to see

Without asking another question?

Take the dare

Fix the stare

Solidify the impression

Yet the Teach

Says to reach

You need divine intercession

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Joshua Fahey

Peanuts

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Apart

Went over the edge of the knife

Left my left foot, kept my life

Cannot stand, lost all face

Can only be saved by saving grace

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Joshua Fahey

Desert Perils

Dryness, thirst, folly, and death

Harder to drink, with every breath

Harder to walk under the weight

Praying to beg for the blood that sates

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Entrance

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Better?

Better than what?

Progressing where?

From mud to soot?

Sin to despair?

Saved only by the grace of God

Infinite being considered odd

By finite fools in the dark

Desperate to make their mark

Better than what?

Progressing where?

Only heaven's got

The answer

God bess,

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Joshua Fahey

Seeking Guidance

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That I Might See

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Cross of Light

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Out of the Dark

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Weight

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Joshua Fahey 

Trouble Sets

Trouble sets in for now

Can trouble be deposed?

Many errors walk their own way

As the lazy supposed

The worker alights

Rests at nights

Trouble and work opposed

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Astray

Great fall and minor wrong

Make nights restless and long

As enemies close about

Error leads to deathly doubt

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Double

Twice never seen

I’ve never been 

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Joshua Fahey 

Peace

Same in war as in peace

Letting prayer never cease

Never early; never late

Making peace part of fate

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Joshua Fahey 

Great Waves

Great waves pushed far

Lakes wide and sunny star

Hope that hate cannot mar

Has opened the jar

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Joshua Fahey

Isness

Fear of an image? Fear of a future?

Harshens the present, blinds the loser

Love of the Maker, fear of division

Guides the wiseman with clear vision 

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Joshua Fahey 

Pride

Lost and never in a map

Sailed a page, a chapter, not looking back

Trees look like angles, houses are for squares

The mind merely mangles, adventuring? never dares

Never needs for all the answers

All the questions too

Have metastasized as cancers

In the map I never knew

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Joshua Fahey

Torched

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Hope Dignified

Every click and purr, crash and bang

Digs at the soul with a hungry fang

Vying for attention like a puppy's bark

O World, this mad World, in the dark

I beg you to beg the light to shine

Let's pray together, imbibe what was wine

Become brethren by blood, by Blood

Washed clean of mud, in gracious flood

Let be

In silence free

Singing praise eternally

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Joshua Fahey

Sorry I Could Not Travel Both

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Thine

All good in me

Is from Thee, from Thee

Save me from the rest of me

To be my best eternally

Giving all to Thee, to Thee

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Making Sauce

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Meal

Seeded hearts, virtue or vice

Reap the fruits and winnow the chaff

Bake the bread, serve a slice

Dine with friends, smile and laugh

Giving life by lying dead

We are his grain for his bread

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Joshua Fahey

Slowly

Click click click

Groans the hinge

Movements stick

Frustrated cringe

Exhausting fare

Ending in prayer

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Joshua Fahey

Gaze

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Joshua Fahey 

Foggy Walk Before Dawn

Swimming in the clouds, at night

Who knew grey could be so bright?

Who knew sight would be so dull?

But it gives me time to mull

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Joshua Fahey

Little Ones

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Fortitude

Joy does not disappoint

Peace does not despair

Children love the Lord our God

Everyday in prayer

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Joshua Fahey 

Child’s Hat Stand

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Joshua Fahey 

Informed?

Tip tap

Logical trap

Shortened fuse

Knotted news

Linen wrap

Slow peruse

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Joshua Fahey

Orange Skies

The colors ignored, unspoken

Brighter than a carnival token

Yet muted by the banal brain

Which sees all as if in rain

Burn, soul, bright through the eyes

Put to shame the worldly lies

Observe the magnificence in wreathe

Allow ones being to breathe

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Joshua Fahey 

Time

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Actors

Salad and butter

Made by the nutter

Eating veggies and rye

While letting Man die

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Joshua Fahey

In a Hand Basket

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Joshua Fahey 

Witches Test

A wretched heart divides them from us

Without understanding the source of the pus

The sin that comes from the heart cannot praise

The glory of God all the days

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Joshua Fahey

Bow

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Joshua Fahey

Addled Haiku

Meddled logic kills

Derailing the trains of thought

An ominous peace

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Joshua Fahey

Flee From Sin

Wobble

Wobble more

Correcting wobble

Fall to floor

Standing wobble

Balance poor

Wobble wobble

Out the door

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Joshua Fahey

Funny Bunny

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Ancient Wisdom

Running ahead

Of the vehicle

Of one's destruction

Is tiring

Running behind

Is exhausting

(sorry not sorry)

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Joshua Fahey

Humbly Follow After Me

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Joshua Fahey

Not Winners in this World

Evil gains the edge

Without honor or joy

Moving only by desire

Zombies that destroy

Humbly, Man may act

If filled with child-like grace

Love that moves by tact

And kindness sets the pace

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Mountain Lake

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Joshua Fahey 

Merciful Justice

Why in pain, does the pained inflict pain

When joy would banish, not any remain

The idiot lashes, and the fool blasphemes

But the wise, in peace, is all that he seems

And beneath

The heretic gnashes his teeth

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Scars

Reminders in form

Obvious to others

Familiarity forgets all but the cause

A new one bothers

Breaking the norm

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Sword and Shield

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Joshua Fahey

Epiphanic Haiku

As clear as stained glass

The dry heart, content, is firm

In telling the truth

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Christian Scheduling

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Blood Ties

Walk a mile, every step

Walk another, and again

Under the weight of a cross

With a friend

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Arrows

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Joshua Fahey

Food of a Sparrow

An act feeds an act

A habit feeds a habit

A fool feeds a coward

Like grass feeds a rabbit

Sin feeds more sin

Death feeds on death

Peace feeds on joy

As life feeds on breath

Before He was captured and beaten

He gave of Himself to be eaten

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Joshua Fahey

Hungry Hunter

Watching in patience

Ready for the strike

Waiting for the buzzer

Spider drops the mike

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Pear Shaped

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Joshua Fahey