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 -- |
| 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 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 -- |
| 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 -- | 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 -- |
