The published poetry of Bonnie J. Manion:
Poems on NATURE
Poems on RELATIONSHIPS
| A Daughter -- | A Son -- |
| A Daughter, A Son -- | A Haiku on Harmony -- |
| A Red Blouse -- | Affectionately Yours -- |
| At The Beginning -- | Binary Stars -- |
| Chosen Child -- | Chrissie's Garden -- |
| Dad's Hat -- | Embers -- |
| Embers (version I) -- | First Time, Last Time -- |
| Flown Away -- | Forgiveness -- |
| Hands -- | Into Me See -- |
| Letting Loose -- | Losing Innocence -- |
| Lost Innocence II -- | More Real Than Photos -- |
| On Burkas -- | Our 44th Anniversary -- |
| Our First Thousand Days -- | Our Pride and Joy -- |
| Our Spiritual Divorce -- | Postscript The Victim -- |
| Spending on Sega -- | Suspended -- |
| The Canvas of My Life -- | The Gift -- |
| The Issue -- | The Wall You Built -- |
| Tossed Salad -- | You -- |
| Your Irish Sweater -- |
SPIRITUAL Poems
| A Candlewick -- | A Night Like This -- |
| A Son Of Man -- | Afternoon Chapel Glow -- |
| Be All My Good -- | Call to Prayer -- |
| Christ In Me -- | Come -- |
| Did You Find Jesus -- | Didn’t He Say... -- |
| Fields of Praise -- | Gifts And Grace -- |
| Going to the Mountain -- | Graced -- |
| La Face de Jesus -- | Life Without -- |
| Lord, Have I Thee Betrayed? -- | Love For Love -- |
| Miracles -- | Mother Teresa’s Paradise -- |
| My Savior’s Smile -- | My God -- |
| Oh, Magnolia! -- | One In The Spirit -- |
| Our Incomparable God -- | Passage -- |
| Plan of the Great I AM -- | Rain in the Desert -- |
| Reflections -- | Sacramental Wine -- |
| Son of God, Image of Love -- | Such A God -- |
| The Beloved Disciple -- | The Donkey -- |
| The Face of Christ -- | The Host of Heaven -- |
| The Mystery of God -- | The New Jerusalem -- |
| The Passion of Our Creator -- | The Virgin’s Child -- |
| To Everything A Season -- | True Praise -- |
| What I Believe -- | What You Are -- |
| With Tenderness Told -- | Worthy the Lamb -- |
| Young Woman Or Man -- | Your Call -- |
INSIGHTFUL Poems
| A Late Snow -- | A Merciful Heart -- |
| A Near Drowning -- | A Place I Go -- |
| A Sum of The Parts -- | Adolescence -- |
| An Artist -- | Arena in the Garden -- |
| Becoming One Today -- | Black and White Magic -- |
| Born Again -- | Coming of Age -- |
| Doing Time -- | Everyman -- |
| Fear -- | Finding Wings -- |
| Green Is Forever -- | Hope -- |
| Interior Journey -- | Just Out of Sight -- |
| Magnolia Mine -- | Making Music -- |
| Mystic Bombast -- | New Days -- |
| On the Importance of Wonder -- | Pathways -- |
| Poppy Fire -- | Resolutions -- |
| Show Me -- | Some of Life´s Mysteries -- |
| The Prodigal’s Brother -- | The World We See -- |
| These Days -- | True Praise -- |
| Twilight Zone -- | What I Felt, What I Heard -- |
| Whence This World -- | Wide Open Spaces -- |
| Within Prison Walls -- | Wrapped Up In Me -- |
NOSTALGIC Poems
HUMOR
| A Horse, Of Course -- | Cats are Carnivores -- |
| Cocoon -- | Cornstalk Army -- |
| Fireflies -- | Great Blue Heron -- |
| Haikus of Black And White Magic -- | Humankind -- |
| Lemon (V2) -- | Microwave Wisdom -- |
| Newton’s Law -- | No Christmas In Our House -- |
| Ocean Cradle -- | Rainsense -- |
| Sale of a 1997 Jaguar -- | The Visitor -- |
| The Lemon -- | Trains of Yore -- |
| What Every Newborn Knows -- |
MELANCHOLY Poems
| A Mother’s Tears -- | Aborted Fetuses -- |
| Anger -- | Behind Prison Walls -- |
| Birth Pangs -- | Broken -- |
| Crime of the Century -- | Crystal Butterflies -- |
| Damned -- | During Chemo (version I) -- |
| Entering Old Age -- | Falling Leaves, Falling Lives -- |
| Feeling the Cold -- | Forgetting How To Pray -- |
| Her Depression -- | In This Moment -- |
| Losing Touch -- | Lost -- |
| Museum of Wolves -- | Night Of My Soul -- |
| Onion Age Haikus -- | Pain -- |
| Pornography -- | Prayer of the Treetops -- |
| Remembering The Flood -- | Resurrection -- |
| Self Loathing -- | Soulstain -- |
| The Heavy Heart -- | The Drumbeat -- |
| The Sentencing Hearing -- | The Woof And The Warp -- |
| Two Weeks In -- | Two Weeks In (version II) -- |
To see all poems arranged in alphabetical order click here