Following are some of the published poems of Bonnie Manion. Click to read any poem.
A Bridal Shower -- | A Candlewick -- |
A Daughter -- | A Daughter, A Son -- |
A Horse, Of Course -- | A Land Before Time -- |
A Late Snow -- | A Merciful Heart -- |
A Mother's Tears -- | A Near Drowning -- |
A Night Like This -- | A Place I Go -- |
A Red Blouse -- | A Son -- |
A Son Of Man -- | A Sum of The Parts -- |
A Very Brief History of Time -- | Aborted Fetuses -- |
Acrid, The Taste of Rage -- | Adolescence -- |
Affectionately Yours -- | After the Storm -- |
Afternoon Chapel Glow -- | Along Juday Creek -- |
Amish Shopping -- | An Artist -- |
An Autumn Drive In The Country -- | An Urban Snapshot -- |
Anchor -- | Anger -- |
Angry at God -- | Arena in the Garden -- |
At The Beginning -- | Autumn Immolation -- |
Baby Bunnies -- | Baby Love -- |
Baby's Love -- | Be All My Good -- |
Becoming One Today -- | Behind Prison Walls -- |
Beside Lake Estes -- | Better Days -- |
Binary Stars -- | Birdsong -- |
Birth of A Rose -- | Birth Pangs -- |
Black and White Magic -- | Born Again -- |
Break of Day -- | Breath of Spring -- |
Bridal Wreath -- | Broken -- |
Brown Eyes -- | Butterfly Under Glass -- |
Call to Prayer -- | Cancer's Toll -- |
Cats are Carnivores -- | Chasing Butterflies -- |
Chocolate Covered Raisins -- | Chosen Child -- |
Chrissie's Garden -- | Christ In Me -- |
Christy's Death -- | Cocoon -- |
Come -- | Coming of Age -- |
Cornstalk Army -- | Crime of the Century -- |
Crystal Butterflies -- | Dad's Hat -- |
Damned -- | Did You Find Jesus -- |
Didn't He Say... -- | Diversity From Mystery -- |
Doing Time -- | Driving to Clifden -- |
During Chemo (version I) -- | Embers -- |
Embers (version I) -- | Entering Old Age -- |
Equilibrium -- | Erin Summer -- |
Evening On Sugar Creek -- | Every Person -- |
Everyman -- | Eye of The Sea -- |
Fairy Arbor -- | Falling Leaves, Falling Lives -- |
Fear -- | Feeling the Cold -- |
Fields of Praise -- | Fifty Years to the Day -- |
Finding Wings -- | Fingers (a cinquain) -- |
Fireflies -- | First Time, Last Time -- |
Flown Away -- | Forgetting How To Pray -- |
Forgiveness -- | Fossilized Fancies -- |
From A Lake Michigan Bluff -- | Getting Older -- |
Gifts And Grace -- | Gifts of the Rain -- |
Gillette Memories -- | Going to the Mountain -- |
Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Moon -- | Graced -- |
Grandma and Grumpaw -- | Grandma's Garden -- |
Gravitas -- | Great Blue Heron -- |
Green Grow the Mountains -- | Green Is Forever -- |
Growing Up in the Fifties -- | Haikus of Black And White Magic -- |
Haikus of Life and Death -- | Hale'lea * -- |
Half-Standing -- | Hands -- |
Happy The Home -- | Harmony (a haiku) -- |
Harvest Time -- | Hebros -- |
Her Chagrin -- | Her Depression -- |
Here Comes A Train! -- | His Agony -- |
Hope -- | Hotel du Danube Saint Germaine -- |
Humankind -- | I Thought I Was Dying, But All I Could Hear Was Laughing -- |
Illinois Prairie -- | In Praise of A Mother -- |
In Retreat -- | In This Moment -- |
Indelible Imprint -- | Inexorable Flow -- |
Interior Journey -- | Intersections -- |
Into Me See -- | Ireland in Summer -- |
Irish Solstice -- | Joy -- |
Just A Tumbled Rock -- | Just Out of Sight -- |
La Face de Jesus -- | Late Summer Redemption -- |
Learned from a Bird Brain -- | Lemon (V2) -- |
Leprechanna -- | Lesson Learned from a Bird-Brain -- |
Letting Loose -- | Letting Loose I -- |
Life Story -- | Life Without -- |
Lord, Have I Thee Betrayed? -- | Losing Innocence -- |
Losing Touch -- | Lost -- |
Lost and Tossed About -- | Lost Innocence II -- |
Love -- | Love For Love -- |
Lullaby of the Ghetto -- | Magnolia Mine -- |
Making Music -- | March of the Clouds -- |
Microwave Wisdom -- | Miracle of Miracles -- |
Miracles -- | More Real Than Photos -- |
Mother Teresa's Paradise -- | Mother's Arms -- |
Mowing -- | Museum of Wolves -- |
My Childhood -- | My Dad's Story -- |
My Father -- | My God -- |
My Love -- | My PC -- |
My Savior's Smile -- | Mystic Bombast -- |
Nama’ ko’lama -- | New Days -- |
Newton's Law -- | Niagara Falls -- |
Night Of My Soul -- | Night Rain -- |
No Christmas In Our House -- | Now That I Am Old -- |
Ocean Cradle -- | Ode to Green Mary Janes -- |
Oh, Magnolia! -- | Old Visions of Summer -- |
On A Hope and a Wing -- | On Burkas -- |
On the Importance of Wonder -- | One In The Spirit -- |
One Perfect Day -- | One tempestuous spring day -- |
One Year Old Speak -- | Onion Age Haikus -- |
Our 44th Anniversary -- | Our First Thousand Days -- |
Our Incomparable God -- | Our Pride and Joy -- |
Our Spiritual Divorce -- | Out of the Storm -- |
Outside My Door -- | Pain -- |
Passage -- | Pathways -- |
Photo of a Refuge Woman -- | Plan of the Great I AM -- |
Playground Misery -- | Poppy Fire -- |
Pornography -- | Postscript: The Victim -- |
Prayer of the Treetops -- | Primeval Journey -- |
Quiddling With the Wind -- | Rain at Noon -- |
Rain in the Desert -- | Rainsense -- |
Recipe for a Universe -- | Red Grows the Sumac -- |
Reflections -- | Remembering The Flood -- |
Resolutions -- | Resurrection -- |
Return to Colorado -- | Rich -- |
River Forest -- | Roller Coaster Years -- |
Sacramental Wine -- | Sailing the Ocean Air -- |
Saint Mary's Woods -- | Sale of a 1997 Jaguar -- |
Seared Memories -- | Seasons -- |
Seeing with My Skin -- | Seen on a Picture-Perfect Midwest Day -- |
Self Loathing -- | Sensing Spirituality -- |
September -- | September Song -- |
Show Me -- | Shutting Down -- |
Signs of Chemo -- | Snow Day -- |
Some of Life's Mysteries -- | Son of God, Image of Love -- |
Soulstain -- | Spending on Sega -- |
Spring Snow Shower -- | Stars ( a haiku) -- |
Storm Clouds -- | Such A God -- |
Suspended -- | Terrazo -- |
The Beloved Disciple -- | The Canvas of My Life -- |
The Carousel -- | The City -- |
The Daily Start of My Ordinary Life -- | The Day Trixie Died -- |
The Demise of the Winter Coat -- | The Donkey -- |
The Drumbeat -- | The Face of Christ -- |
The Gift -- | The Grass -- |
The Heavy Heart -- | The Host of Heaven -- |
The Hunt -- | The Iowa River at Floodstage -- |
The Issue -- | The Lavender Lady of Kilauea -- |
The Lemon -- | The Marriage Haiku -- |
The Miracle of Spring -- | The Mystery of God -- |
The Need For Purgatory -- | The New Jerusalem -- |
The Party -- | The Passion of Our Creator -- |
The Peace of the Wildwood -- | The Poet's Toolbox -- |
The Prodigal's Brother -- | The Retreat -- |
The Sea -- | The Sentencing Hearing -- |
The Silver Maple -- | The Starrie Night -- |
The Trail to Anini Beach -- | The Virgin's Child -- |
The Visitor -- | The Wall You Built -- |
The Woof And The Warp -- | The World We See -- |
These Days -- | This Old House -- |
Time Travel -- | To Everything A Season -- |
Tossed Salad -- | Trains of Yore -- |
True Praise -- | Twilight on Nine Ten -- |
Twilight Zone -- | Two Weeks In -- |
Two Weeks In (version II) -- | U Tri Pstrosu -- |
Unmoved -- | Unmoved II -- |
Upon Awakening after Bypass Surgery -- | Waves of the Ocean -- |
What Did Shane See? -- | What Every Newborn Knows -- |
What I Believe -- | What I Felt, What I Heard -- |
What You Are -- | When I Was Mother -- |
Whence This World -- | Whispering Wind -- |
Who I Am -- | Wide Open Spaces -- |
Wildflowers of the Midwest -- | With Tenderness Told -- |
Within Prison Walls -- | Wonder and Awe -- |
Worthy the Lamb -- | Wrapped Up In Me -- |
Yesterday's Snow -- | You -- |
Young Woman Or Man -- | Your Call -- |
Your Irish Sweater -- |