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We are not here Just to please our selves We’d get bored very quickly If we tried There’s a purpose to our life A journey to be made A maturing of the spirit Deep inside   We belong to one another And we need each other’s help The give and take of kindness Every dayContinue reading “The Upside Of Life”

  I want to live In the consciousness of Christ To live in his presence He in mine I want to see clear-eyed Into the future I want a sharp awareness Of the time   When young I found the Lord In holy bread In tabernacle home And holy light And as I heard theContinue reading “Witness Before The World”

‘I could stand in the rain and snow And I could listen to him all day’ Wasn’t that a nice thing to hear! Wasn’t that a nice thing to say!   A Dublin woman in London Talking would you believe about me! A Mayo lady told me And walked home laughingly   But I sawContinue reading “Redemptorist Reminder”

Three yellowed pages Full of names Lay in my drawer for thirty years Untouched Occasionally I’d look at them And wonder who they are And how they are getting on But they live so very far   A lady came from America Nancy was her name She wrote down names Addresses too In case oneContinue reading “The Lost Tribe”

A farmer ploughing fields beside Lough Mask Sunshine on the plough The horse at his task Suddenly a bell begins to chime The midday hour The Angelus Remembering the time When Mary answered yes to Gabriel And Christ began his journey All is well   The farmer pulled the reins The plough stopped still Man andContinue reading “A Ploughman’s Prayer”

I am talking to people I have never met Hands across the ocean Cousins in Chicago Family devotion   A little house in Slinaun Six sisters and a brother Three went to America Goodbye to their mother   Relations in Chicago All I ever knew Now I hunt the Internet Say how do you doContinue reading “The Faheys Of Slinaun”

I am on the hunt for ancestors For the girls that went away Who kissed their mother a sad good-bye Going to Amerikay They used to hold a wake for that I am never coming home You’ll never see my face again I am condemned to roam   They left that plot in Slinaun AContinue reading “Catching Those Girls”

I have been playing detective Searching family tree My father’s side The side that is little known The reason well they are stateside Chicago Illinois Branched out from there Four family stems Four girls who landed there   Ellen and Bridget Sarah and Honor Fahey girls of Slinaunroe Kilmaclasser Westport Headed west never to returnContinue reading “Family Tree”

Pat Fahy My great grandfather Had a neat writing hand I see it for myself today On the census form I also learn he married at 25 Mary Loftus his wife was 23 In 1911 they have been married 35 years And something new I see Overlooked it before now 9 children were born toContinue reading “Family Research”

Last night the heavens opened Poured torrential rain Now I know how Noah felt On the ocean main   I set out on my journey Sheltered from the rain Golf umbrella overhead Strong shoes on terrain   Hospital appointment Covid booster jag Jag for flu administered Brian now has two jags   Came home inContinue reading “Walking In The Rain”

  I made an ink blot Eleven years old On the opening page Father Parker’s history book And the Ziggurat of Ur And Father Mythen’s languages Latin Greek and French An ancient world was opened up to me   The pity was The world I knew was barred to me Off limits Seminary shunned thatContinue reading “Old Ground”

How clever of the Lord To give us morning time And mid day and evening time And slumber time and sleep The waking moment when new born We rise from out the dark And once we’ve had our cornflakes We’re singing with the lark   The working day then evening Safely home and eat SettleContinue reading “Only Today”

The President the riot and the mob Capitol invasion on TV Cops block entry at a narrow gate Spartans at Thermopylae again Others gain entry Breaking window glass And access to the chamber theirs at last Deputies secreted in a secret room America on the verge of doom   I am amazed That millions canContinue reading “Strange Business”

He liked his own way And a bag to put it in Said my mother   Funny How things Get passed down   Brian Fahy 27 October 2021

Nightclubs now are nightmares So I read Spiking the latest trend unseen Getting someone legless comatose Take advantage Life is ‘anything goes’   Dancing in the dark A deadly game Flashing lights and drumbeats Glad you came Noisy anonymity Forget all stranger danger Modern life Sad calamity   I remember parish dances Long ago IrishContinue reading “A Time For Every Purpose”