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 -- |
