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updated November 10, 2005
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GO TO INDEX FOR MINI-POEMS 10-21 at page bottom
other poems from 2001-2004

go to poems 2006B:

  1. As the Day Flops
  2. Gospel in a Nutshell poem
  3. Perspective Again
  4. I Bit my Tongue Today
  5. Who am I Trying to Kid?
  6. I don't Know Why
  7. Life on the Ledge
  8. Leaven Crumbs
  9. Remember
  10. A Dog-eared Life

go to poems 2006A:

  1. Life is Not a Lottery
  2. I Liked my Life
  3. Have You Thanked Your God Today?
  4. Come
  5. Utterly Practical
  6. Tug of War
  7. Job Never Knew
  8. Strong Comfort
  9. Forgive Them
  10. Brace Face
  11. Good Tidings of Liberty
  12. If at First
  13. God Wants Me To Be
  14. Sifted, But Not Destroyed
  15. Where is the Happy Ending?

go to poems 2005C:

  1. Sent
  2. Heart of Flesh
  3. Your Victory; My Joy
  4. November Grace
  5. Prayer Window
  6. You Call that Prayer?
  7. Unreined and Aimless
  8. Hope, Undeserved
  9. Not Without a Fight!
  10. It is Too Big For Me
  11. Grace in the Wilderness  
  12. How do I Pray for You?
  13. I Put my Trust
  14. Scatter ed Brain
  15. I'm not Lost
  16. The Window of my Hope
  17. A Better Hope
  18. I Have Forgotten all the Words
  19. Nothing in This World

go to poems 2005B:

  1. Grief, Like the Air
  2. Brief Visit
  3. Speechless Before Thee
  4. Facing Nineveh
  5. A Song of Cold Rain
  6. Love for the Other Sheep
  7. Wearied by Footmen
  8. Are There Few?
  9. I want to go to Heaven, Too.
  10. Remember
  11. We Call That Friday Good
  12. Lord of the Rolling Years
  13. Don't be an April Fool
  14. Heart, Sore-pained

go to poems 2005A:

  1. This Side of the Grave
  2. The Chosen Unpopular
  3. Another Dead Rose
  4. Yet as a Fool
  5. Pray-Waiting
  6. They Also Serve
  7. Having Done All, Stand
  8. Casting Life-Lines
  9. God Meant it for Good
  10. I Could not Pick it Up
  11. Asking the Wrong ?'s
  12. Not Fantasy--Faith
  13. The Branches Protest
  14.  This is Why Waiting is Difficult
  15. But Death Expected You
  16. Sensing Constant Disapproval
  17. A Dozen Long-Stemmed Dandelions

go to poems 2004D:

  1. I did not Dread
  2. Run with Shepherds
  3.  The Babe and Dragon-Slayer
  4. Something Unpleasant
  5. Ask How I Am--poem for a wretched week
  6. This Gift is not for Hiding
  7. Billy Doubts Gruff
  8. Small
  9. And Then We Die
  10. Led
  11. All Mine
  12. Pale Comparison

go to poems 2004C:

  1. Apart from Him
  2.  To Be Gracious
  3.  But by the Grace
  4. Fingerprints and Snowflakes
  5.  Every Name that is Named
  6. An Unwatched-Pot
  7. Offer Declined
  8. No Dirges on the Other Side
  9. The Shadow of Life
  10. Timeless
  11.  Cling
  12. Because it is a Gift
  13. Just Swell

go to poems 2004B:

  1. Extreme Makeover--Footstool Edition
  2. What Now? I Failed.
  3. Son of Imlah: A Conversation between Ahab and Jehoshaphat
  4.  Counsel, but not of me
  5.  Room to Grow
  6.  Re-alignment
  7. Hoarding Husks
  8. Water Me
  9. Ants Breaking Away
  10.  Hornets, Hounds, and Horses
  11. Foolaphobia
  12. Wear the Coat
  13. Christian Admiration

go to poems 2004a:

  1. See Results!
  2. He Used You
  3. Two-way Call 
  4. On This Rock
  5. It's Not About You!
  6. You Have to Open It!
  7. You Can’t Just Add Jesus
  8. Fans and Disciples
  9. And Some Believed Not
  10. There's no Pleasing Some...Pharisees
  11. We Walk in Hope
  12. Dissecting  Hope
  13. This Corruptible
  14. To Step from Earth
  15. God Bargains
  16.  Winter's Last Gasp

go to poems 2003b:

  1. Uncomfortable Holiness
  2. Mistakes have been Made
  3. I knew that, Lord
  4. The Royal City
  5.  I Thank You for the "So Far"
  6. Sparky ran off ,Spark-less Life
  7. Roll-call
  8. Off-stage

go to poems 2003a:

  1. Every Spring, a Promise
  2. Beyond the Reach of Change
  3. Connected; Disconnecting
  4. One-blooded
  5.  Are We There Yet?
  6. This Path
  7. We Faint Not
  8.  Refusing Grace
  9. Will You Listen Now?
  10. The Thing I Dread
  11. This is the Rest, Laodicean
  12. One Who Waits for Me
  13.  The Weeping Sower
  14. The Glass Conviction
  15. Straw-grasping

go to poems 2002b:

  1. Autumn Waits for Spring
  2. My Offering
  3.  We will not Always Wait
  4. Unknown and yet Well-known
  5.  Only When You Want Something
  6. Sing Again!
  7.  Puffed up and Popped
  8. Pick it up Again
  9. Darts of Discouragement
  10. I Will Love Thee
  11.  Everyone's Hungry Again

go to poems 2002a:

  1. White-washed
  2. Look at Me
  3.  Not Without Cause
  4.  An Assortment of Griefs
  5.  No Reruns
  6. Death and Maintenance
  7. Death Stopped to Call
  8. The One-way Door
  9. Storms don’t Last Forever
  10. I do not Learn
  11.  Lulled
  12. The Gratitude Cure
  13.  Little Strength

go to poems 2001c:

  1. Shine Wise
  2. Mediocre Poems
  3. Beyond the Veil
  4. Longing and Letdown
  5. The Time I've Been Given
  6. How much is that Parrot in the Window?
  7. The Door Marked "Fear"
  8. So Little Strength
  9. Where are all the Sins?
  10. Returning Favors, Unopened

go to poems 2001b:

  1. Safety in Numbers?
  2. I Must do it Now
  3. Got it all Together—Not!
  4. Jesus is Lord
  5. We Shall All be Changed
  6. Getting out of Bed
  7. I didn’t even See
  8. Begins at Home
  9. The Hedge has been Breached
  10. The Mighty has Fallen; 9-11-01
  11. Is there Deja Vu in Heaven?
  12. The Bench-Warmers
  13. Fears Within
  14. More than a Patch
  15. Taste Grace
  16. I Run to You
  17. Truth, Straight Up
  18. It’s Enough to Make You Blush
  19. Morning Joy
  20. Mine, Mine, Mine!

go to poems 2001a:

  1. On the Same Team
  2. Ready for Pickup
  3. My Personal Restrainer
  4. I Deny Him
  5. More than my Personal Best
  6. Precious scars, A Crooked Pot
  7. What I Want
  8. I Didn't Pray Today
  9. Thrashing, Splashing
  10. Tough Questions from God
  11. The Present is a Gift
  12. Call
  13. Be There
  14. It was a Month Ago
  15. Mashing potatoes makes me Cry
  16. Don't Weep for Me, Life can seem so Long
  17. A Light Went Out, Mission Accomplished
  18. Die to Self Today, Feeling Preachy

MINI-POEMS

go to mini-poems 22:

  1. Fickle April
  2. The Stomach Yawns
  3. Spring Sings
  4. A Solitary Ant
  5. Barely-Veiled Barbs
  6. A February Kind of Sad
  7. Slivered to Shavings, You are not low enough
  8. Bait , Cold Manna in the Morning
  9. Small Brown Fur
  10. Return of the Rodent(s)
  11. Hope Got Away
  12. Undead and Buried
  13. Broken Crutches,Face It
  14. Ordinary Failures
  15. Without Bristling
  16.  Mell-Weaning Optimists
  17. Seed Catalogs in January
  18. Please Pass the Grace

go to mini-poems 21:

  1. Here Comes the Bull
  2. Plowed Brown Face
  3. Laid Bare
  4. November Muse
  5. Metaphor of Eternal Ignorance
  6. One Uncrowded Nasturtium
  7. Any Little Opening
  8.  When Pain Talks
  9. Room-Temperature Ruminating
  10. The Will, Won't
  11. To Catch an Error
  12. Aimless Air-boxing

 

go to mini-poems 20:

  1. You’re Fired!
  2.  Oh, the Dragon’s Been Complaining
  3. Spoiled and So Special
  4. Four Dagger Notches
  5. You Were Kind to Me
  6. Held up a Mirror
  7. Gossip for One
  8. Here is Wisdom
  9. Talk Faster
  10. Off-beat
  11. The Book I Read
  12. No Espresso Compliments
  13. Until Fuzzy's Finished
  14. Ground-level Sky
  15. Cooking a Word Curry
  16. Quite Enough
  17. He's a Pineapple

go to mini-poems 19:

  1.  Looking for Offense
  2.  Foot in Mouth,  In My Wake
  3. It's the Packaging,
  4. Easy as Humble Pie
  5. Don't Turn your Back on an Egg (I did)
  6. February Expectations,Which Side of Sane?
  7.  An Unconventional Soul,Angry Wind
  8. Flawlessly Flawed, And I Alone am Left
  9. Thinking Spring

go to mini-poems 18:

  1. A Stand of Spruces
  2. Crystal Trees at 10 Degrees
  3. Sky-Gazer
  4. Frosted Panes of Frost
  5. Life Tag,   Wrapped, Mummy-like
  6. Watery Broth,Thai-die Chile
  7. That Beetle is no Lady
  8. Orbitless Orb, Slippery Minutes
  9. No Rapid Reply , OFF, Skeeters!
  10. County Road 300, circa July 2003
  11. Dewy Side Ditches

go to mini-poems 17:

  1. Back-pat Dependent, Hope is not a Humid Word
  2.  Hope is not a Humid Word
  3.  Got Paint?
  4. Got Paint?, Not enough to doubt
  5.  Is Freedom, Folded-up Dreams
  6. Everybody's Got a Bee, Thinking in the Fog
  7. To Emily (Dickinson)
  8. It Must Be the Mirror,  Caked-on Pride
  9. Unceasing Wind, More than Winter

go to mini-poems 16:

  1.  Three-dimensional Me
  2.  Backwords, Fit Together
  3. A Whisper of Autumn,  Cruciferous Cumulus
  4. Discontent in any State,  Cute Little Weed
  5. Out of Kilter
  6. Accepting February ,  Sunless Winter Sky
  7. Weapon of Fire, It Rankles
  8. Past the Bloom,  Dementia
  9. The Charlatan, Found Out
  10. Bare Grain, Groaning
  11.  Petals in Disarray
  12. Leafless Beauty
  13. Created in the Image
  14. Petals and Thorns,  Dead or Dormant?

go to mini-poems 15

  1. Old, Inanimate Friends,  Spruce Sitter
  2.  Scented Tangents,  Scattered Brain
  3. Color Through my Window,  Clothesline Hanging Low
  4. I was not myself Today, Compliment Fishing
  5.  Rich in Hoosier Green

go to mini-poems 14:

  1. Sun-kissed Water
  2. Swift Summer Storm
  3. A Thought I Thought,
  4. Go get a Vase
  5.  I Said Too Much, Hide and Swat
  6.  Hoof-beats at 2AM,  Not Fashion’s Slave
  7. Time is no Friend,  I Smiled Back
  8. Hope was a Moping Chicken, Sometimes the Bite is Worse
  9. Vapor Puffs
  10. Life is a Picnic, Life is a Beach
  11. Life is a Vacation
  12. Eye-level Smudge, Desk Clutter

go to mini-poems 13:

  1. Spruce Gaps, Sic Transit Gloria
  2. Baffle 'Em,  Scrubbing the Figurine
  3. State of Matter
  4. Cattins, I Found Two Hours
  5. Neither a Borrower,  Clean Sweep
  6. Threading through Worries,  Ladybug Circles
  7. Neither Pity, nor Censure, An Old Jar of Pickles
  8. I Feel Overcast, Life-eater
  9. Peek-a-Blue, When to Stop?

go to mini-poems 12:

  1. Sledge-hammer Subtlety
  2. War of the Unspoken
  3. Rubber-tipped Arrows
  4. A Well-tended Grudge  ,Strawberries out of Season, What a lovely Sunset
  5. Mouse-Heart
  6. He Forgot about the Pie
  7. Quiet Enough, Brick by Brick
  8. People-Pleasing Impostor
  9. Feel Free to Disagree

 

go to mini-poems 11:

  1. Something to Read
  2. The Painting Underneath,The Orderly Ones
  3. Fault-Searching, Trains of Thought
  4. Even the Unblue Sky, Soul Windows
  5. Weather Eyes, Last Time Ever
  6. Fuzz Words, One Bowl of Tomatoes
  7. All the Pregnant Strays, Weeds I Won’t See
  8. Imagination, Meet Reality, Thinking Ahead
  9. There's a fly in my quiet time, It’s Not my Filth
  10. Lip Service, Tombstones Can’t Smell
  11. You Should, Too
  12. Dirty Windows, Tired of Feeling Sad
  13. Like a Road, Like a Kite
  14. No Instant Healing, Vulnerable
  15. Glass House People, Undigested Words,
  16. Like a Book, Shallow Bowls
  17. In a Day, Winter in my Heart

go to mini poems 10:

  1. Missile Words, Tale of Two Piles
  2. The Sun Shines not for Me, Wake me Up!
  3. After the Mongolian Beef , Someday, it Will be Spring
  4. Cat Morsel, A Deficiency of Green
  5. Ten Things to Do, Door Wide Open
  6. Not my Type, My Kingdom for a Wig
  7. Me and my Treadmill, A Prune by any Other Name
  8. The Creator’s Creation, An Arrangement in Frost
  9. Fadeless Hope, Restless
  10. Taking Umbrage, Some People just Can’t Take a Compliment
  11. If at First, A Laurel to Rest Upon
  12. If the Shoe Fits
  13. The Fat Lady is put on Hold
  14. Overtime
  15. You Call that Poetry?
  16. Words Like Water