Lady

Wisdom dances in the stars

Down the trails of dragon tears

In the dust and mud of earth

Beyond our dreams and fears

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Wooden Ties

Connection, constant, caring, kind

Search the world and you’ll find

None, but that cross at Calvary 

Binding God and Man as family

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Starved

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Joshua Fahey 

Quitting Time

Several hearts and a couple spades

A single diamond, yet no club

Raise and raise while victory fades

Folding the hand, leave the pub

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Family Meal

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Family

Dread at the hope of reconciliation 

Doubt of the faith in repentance 

Surprised at the love of mercy’s embrace

Generosity that upturns a death sentence

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Beams

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Science

Millions of pixels, pixies, pips

Atoms, quarks, spins, and dips

Billions, trillions, gazillions galore

We observe, categorize, utilize, explore

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Foolishness

I am blind

I need to be

For were I to see

I’d pay no mind

To any but me

Unable to find

The way to be free

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Fall

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Protection

Though my breath shortens

Let righteousness be

A wall around my chest

That lets me be free

To carry the cross

And walk on the sea

By means of the grace

Of the Trinity

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Figs

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Countdown

Turn away, far away

From destruction, turn and pray

To live, to live! Turn today!

Turn away, and come back home

Great sinners are they?

Dead and savaged

Homes burned and fields ravaged?

Pray! Pray!

For not so are they

Any greater in sinning today

Then you fools who stay, stay!

And refuse to come back home

For years I've prayed

For the lost to come

And for those who've strayed

The calling's

Almost

Done

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Thorns

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

St. Patrick

Light shines

Fire heats

Druid whines

Patrick beats

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Petal Painter

Painting every petal

Every petal on every flower

Every care on every petal

Every petal with entire power

Every stem and every leaf

Painted kindly in belief

That every flower and every petal

Has its blossom in its hour

Who can say with any sense

Which flower gives greater recompense

To the patient petal painter

Than the painter grants a petal

And who can say with any mettle

If any flower be great or faint

In the glory of the painter

And his patient paint

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

In Tents

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Meek

Fearful fog confounds the compass

But fixes focus

Freeing those humbly heeding help

To serenely survey and serve

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

From Above; To Above

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Joshua Fahey 

Climb

More air for every step, less breath remains

To the heights, the heights of joy

Before sorrowful refrains

But now is peace

Now is awe

Now the King of kings reigns

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Post of Blood

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Humble

Standing still as a temple's pillar

No trace of fear, no hurried gasp

Gazing into the eyes, the soul

Not wincing at the tempter's rasp

Of few words, the Word's reply

As calmly spoken as a desert

As clearly spoken as the sky

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Wandering

Wander, wander, wander

Where’s the light, where’s peace?

When does the unceasing noise cease?

When does the wanderer cease to wander?

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Solitude

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Loyalty and Betrayal

A drought of wine, deep

Seeping into bones, unspoken

Woken up only by doubt, dispelled

Felled by an ancient poison

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>

P<

Joshua Fahey 

All the Kingdoms

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Drink

Is life for all that pleasure feeds?

Perhaps just that which comfort needs?

Or does one's cup get filled by joy

By sidestepping that devilish ploy

Peace would would fill the mournful heart

If in worldly noise, one shan't take part

Those that drink such eternally

Give up to God all glory

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Cup

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>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Rationale

Can you calm the madness?

With words? Reason?

Can such an arrow halt

The mind from treason?

No. Assaulted by light and grace

The castle must be stormed

Sieged. Flooded in His Wisdom

Victory is formed

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Ash Wednesday

Remember, dust

Return, dust

Repent, dust

Believe, dust

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey