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updated November 28, 2000

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  1. poems 2000a
  2. poems 99B
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6. poems 98c
7.  poems 98b
8.  poems98a

9. poems 97c:
10. poems 97b
11. poems 97a

10. poems 1996

 

 

mini-poems 9

  1. The Culinary Prince and Pauper, Permission Denied
  2. Alive, but not Living, Artist to Bemused Patron
  3. Even a Fool , Self-deprecating Humor
  4. Older, yes--but Wiser?, Euphoria is Over-rated
  5. Sleeping in the Light, Fears Bubble Up
  6. Shades of Silence, Float like a Brick
  7. We Are Not Good Enough, Half-Empty Snake?
  8. I do not Like Myself Today, The Test of Time
  9. Iotas and Whits , Bonnet Bees
  10. To Change or not to Change, Effortless
  11. Manger Dog, A Bird with Fringes
  12. Reaping Scorn, Male Mosquitoes and other Pests
  13. Turkey Mania, Mosquitoes in the Garden
  14. Green Beans go Snap, My Bananas have Freckles
  15. The Halfway Frog, Little Green Apples
  16. Pin the Sheet on the Clothesline
  17. And Didn’t Know Where to Find It
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mini-poems 8

  1. Pretty Decent
  2. She's a Cactus, Put me in a Better Frame
  3. Eating Liver Poems, Screwdriver for a Poem
  4. Rear View Fear, Moved On
  5. Skunk at Midnight, Noisy Thoughts
  6. A Farewell to Wings, Lost my Greased Goat
  7. If You See a Falling Cactus, Some Time Apart
  8. A Ditch of Dying Dandelions
  9. Rhubarb, Just Standing Still
  10. To All the Dogs I Loved Before
  11. Lend me Both Ears
  12. Let them be Anathema!
  13. Tasting Nickels
  14. ...is Never Done
  15. Frozen by Everyday Fears,
  16. Won't let Forty get the Best of Me
  17. The Poems in my Head,
  18. Living with Mediocrity, What did He Do?
  19. Got a Hole in my Carpet
  20. Haunted by The Raven, Beam in my Eye

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mini-poems 7

  1. I Didn't Forget, Can't Hold all those Dreams
  2. The End of Purgatory?, Cold Jewels
  3. Having the Prime of my Life, Hair Cut
  4. Cactus on the Kitchen Sink, Winter is Leaking
  5. A Valentine for Charlie Brown, Treadmills and Such
  6. I'm a Real Bear until Spring Comes, Living in the Ice Age
  7. Shoveling Snow, A Broken Record
  8. Fish Bait, To Hear a Poem Sing
  9. The First Step, Worm's Eye View
  10. Twenty-six Ingredients, The Meaning
  11. Old Recipes
  12. Deep Skin, It's Hopeless
  13. Like a Leaf, Inspiration Flashes
  14. A House of Books, Praise is Perfume
  15. Connect the Dots, Treacherous Beauty
  16. But That's Different, Boring Definition
  17. It's How You Said It, Sticks and Stones

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mini-poems 6

  1. Waking Thoughts, Bad Poems
  2. Pulling out of the Rat Race, In Pursuit of Happiness
  3. Take heed, lest, The Road Reluctantly Traveled
  4. By the Numbers, Mystery of the White Hair
  5. A Plethora of Shrimp, Hoof-in-Mouth, again
  6. No Agenda, just Addenda
  7. It's all in the Abs, Word Tasting
  8. I Must be Clever, Baby Swiss or Limburger?
  9. Disappointment makes me Crabby
  10. Have You Seen My Poem?
  11. Stitching Lines
  12. Hungry Hopes, Dark so Soon
  13. Muddy Thinking, Burnout
  14. Raw Potato Poems, Gnawing Ideas
  15. Unfinished Projects, Tower of Blocks
  16. Sharp, Dull
  17. 33 Flavors, Soft
  18. I am Wool Boucle, Seersucker Thighs
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mini-poems 5

  1. Word Play, Wet Cement Poems
  2. That Back-to-School Smell, The Swiftest Month
  3. Refreshing?, An Eternity in Five Minutes
  4. Time, Without a Shell
  5. If I Only had Nothing to Fear, Tarstruck
  6. Never at the Same Time, The Brown, Brown Grass of Home
  7. Ode to a Chicken, Chicken Feathers
  8. -ibble Words, Hairy Carrots
  9. By the Dawn's Early Light, A Mother's Prerogative
  10. No Perspective, The Things we don't Covet
  11. Seeing Snakes, In it for the Long Haul
  12. Weeds Again, Naturally, Flashbulbs on the Water
  13. Grocery Store Ghosts , Too Soon for Nostalgia
  14. Consider the Buttercup, Hopes Hopping Low
  15. The Emperor's New Poem
  16. Golden Oldie; Don't wrestle with my tea
  17. Don't Tread on Me, Spring Green
  18. Almost a Compliment, For the Wrong Reason


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mini-poems 4

  1. Dandelion Greens
  2. Tennies in the Dryer, No Sweatless Success
  3. Just Singing in the Fog,  Four and Twenty Grackles
  4. To Dust,  How Does Your Garden Grow?
  5. Sadness Seeps In, Automatic Mode
  6. Savor, No Bowing out Gracefully
  7. Take a Bite out of Life, Really Unplugged
  8. How Much is that Metaphor in the Window?, The Windy Season
  9. A Wrinkle in Winter, Spring too Soon
  10. Odd Couple, Winter Wish
  11. Brevity, It is Still January
  12. Dirty Snow, Alter-egos
  13. The Ones That Got Away--(Because I Let Go), Snow-Bully!
  14. A Thaw!, Fast Forward Dream
  15. Snowy White Sleeping Beauty, Warm Memories

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mini poems 3

  1. Petting the Cat Backward, No Opera Phantom, but still...
  2. The Author and the Illustrator, Mind Edges
  3. Bleak Glory,  Addicted to Superlatives
  4. November, like Fish and Houseguests, The Elusive Essence
  5. Skating Word Strings, The Straw that Broke the Analogy's Back
  6. For Whom the Sunsets?  , To Everything a Purpose!,
  7. Cold, Techno-glow,  Inspiration at 4 AM
  8. A Soul is not a Cell,  Waiting for the Dawn
  9. Some to Skim,  Requested: Adequacy plus
  10. John Deere,  Green Soup that Swam
  11. Autumn Speaks,  "Pristine"
  12. Viral Fog,  Penmanship
  13. Snowflakes Dancing in the Dark , How Cold is It?
  14. Snow Stallion  ,Window Cats
  15. Vanilla Skunk,  "Ugly Cookie Saga"

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mini poems2

  1. Garden Post-harvest,  Tree Change
  2. Walking Barefoot, Feast or Scraps?
  3. Of Frogs and Poems, Screen Flies
  4. Harvest Haircuts, I'd be happy if...
  5. I Have an Invisible Splinter
  6. Age is a State of.....,  Soul Drought
  7. Inspiration,  What? This isn't the 50-yard Dash?
  8. See a Stone,  Hollow
  9. Soybeans in September,  Soybeans 2
  10. Ripe Corn,Dining from the Dumpster
  11. Mirror Images, Sunshine and Shadows
  12. Tree Analogy,  Squirrel-like

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mini poems

  1. Refreshing,  Colorcopia!,  No, not the Mona Lisa....
  2. Walking just to Walk,   Mosquito Chow
  3. Fall Wildflowers,  State Park Path
  4. The Pen is Mightier,  Assumptions
  5. Poet Fears,  The Writer's Craft
  6. Inflation or just Middle Age?,  White Barn Dove
  7. Not Global Warming--just "Defrosting Time"
  8. Cicada Song,   Perspective
  9. If Poems were Stocks....,  A Pox on Maxims
  10. Crest or Colgate,   Snake Double-Take
  11. Murphy's Law,  Acceptance Speech
  12. Water Vapor Mountains,  A Weed by any Other Name...
  13. Soul in a Sieve,  Blood-Thirsty Mosquito Guest

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poems 2000a

  1. Prayer for Jerusalem
  2. Are We There Yet?
  3. Long, Lean Soul
  4. Dandelion in the Wind
  5. Heaven is a Face
  6. At the Terminal
  7. Confound the Wise
  8. Wild Kittens
  9. But Names will Never Hurt Me
  10. A Green Potato
  11. Frayed Expectations
  12. Like the Phoenix
  13. Failing the Specifics
  14. Façade
  15. In Spirit and Truth
  16. Past the Bubble
  17. Seeing Microbes
  18. Perfection
  19. Peeking out of my Pockets
  20. I'm in the Army Now
  21. The Flavor of Hopelessness
  22. Seeking Passage on a Ship to Tarshish

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poems 99B

  1. After Christmas Sale
  2. Soul Hunger
  3. Storm Shelter
  4. The Faith I Want
  5. Dark Glasses
  6. Paint the Whole Portrait
  7. Truth and Joy, Together
  8. Missing Hopes Bureau
  9. The Heart of a Stranger
  10. A Perfect Heart
  11. Some Have Hit the Wall
  12. The Carrot's Horse
  13. Seeing Spots
  14. What to do with the Rope?
  15. This Bough Won't Break
  16. How Firm a Foundation?
  17. About Your Children, Lord...
  18. More than a Feeling
  19. Foolishness
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poems 99a

  1. Get in the Ark
  2. A Way Will Open
  3. Crazy like Noah?
  4. Sweep the Leaven
  5. Rise Up and Come Away
  6. Bread with Stones
  7. Set a Place for Elijah
  8. What of the Night?
  9. If This Hope, Whose Image?
  10. The Milkshake Diet, Follow the Leader
  11. What She's Really Like
  12. They See the Blue, Find the Flaw
  13. Choosing their Delusions
  14. Half-hot
  15. A Breath and a Shadow
  16. In Glass Houses
  17. Thief or Bridegroom?
  18. Sing a New Song

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poems 98c

  1. This Corruptible
  2. You Left for us a Path
  3. And Some to Honour...
  4. But I will Hope Continually...
  5. Puzzling Pride
  6. Putting on Christ
  7. No Generic Thanks
  8. (More than the Absence of War)
  9. Grace and Holiness in the Ring
  10. How Long?
  11. Journey & Destination
  12. Hope's Banner
  13. One War, Many Battles
  14. The Odometer Turns Over
  15. What if You're Wrong?
  16. The First "Hide and Seek"
  17. Someday Jubilee
  18. A Breath or a Blink!
  19. Your Time is Up!
  20. Song of the Scoffers
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poems 98b

  1. God on the Back Burner
  2. Appointed
  3. Speaking the Truth...in Love
  4. Going through the Motions
  5. Risen With Christ
  6. Paradoxes
  7. Trouble the Waters, Lord!
  8. Lord, my Life!
  9. To Feel Again
  10. Contused Feelings
  11. How much Rain can a Bath Towel Hold?
  12. Choke it down!
  13. God Beyond Words
  14. Panic--or Peace?
  15. If the Time is Short
  16. Hopeful Sorrow
  17. I'm OK, you need some work!
  18. mommy @ heaven . com
  19. A Word from Our Sponsor
  20. Who will go for us?
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poems98a

  1. Dragging our Chains behind us
  2. Truth is Fallen
  3. His Jewels
  4. I Know Why the Caged Lion Roars
  5. Or the Golden Bowl be Broken
  6. Keep those cleaning supplies handy!
  7. Thine eyes shall see the King in His Beauty
  8. To Them that Perish
  9.  A Tale of Two Trees
  10. Stubbornly clinging to Christ
  11. The Spirit's Whisper
  12. Despising Small Things
  13. Jail-break!
  14. Prone to Preen, Needs Pruning!

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poems 97c:

  1. There is a Rock
    We Will Not Hearken!
    Saved to Serve
    An Open Door
    Keeping my Eyes on You
    The Pit
    The Silken Thread of Hope
    A Pocket of Peace
    Homesick
    An Offering of Crumbs
    A Christmas Present

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poems 97b

Why, Lord?
The Wedding Summons  (a look at the Rapture)
Wake Up!!
Water Problems
The Potter's Pots (a Creation parable, of sorts...)
Oil Crisis (Matthew 25)
ill-clad, on Enemy turf!  (Ephesians 6)
Escape from the jaws of the Dragon
The Bridge-Builder
From Bozrah (Isaiah 63)
Dying--Once, Twice, Never
Long-lasting Ripples

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poems 97a

Just another busy day
The Race of Life
Unblemished, Without Spot
A Prayer for the Lost
God is Not Slack
Signs? What Signs?
Yearning or Yawning?
No More Excuses!
My Heart is Fixed
Lead Me, Good Shepherd!
Today is Enough
We're Not Yet Home!
The Heart Is Gone
Strength in Weakness

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poems 1996

  1. City of Peace
  2. A Steward
  3. Design & Decision (ok, this one breaks the 30-second rule!)
  4. Creative Denial
  5. Poor Vision--Perfect Trust!
  6. Mold Me, Lord!
  7. You Are Worthy!
  8. Keep Me
  9. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
  10. Return, Emmanuel!

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