Impressions of Nature
Wesley's Lullaby (early 1970s)Snowfall (1975)
Spring Carol (1976)
Three Scenes (1991-2)
Scenes of Kansas: Four Haiku (2007)
Sonnet: Walking Alone on an Evening in Spring (2013; rev., 2017)
Christian Songs and Hymns
Anthem (1976; rev., 2019)Psalm (1977)
Beneath the Moon (1977; rev., 2001)
Hymn (1984)
Fanfare for Easter (1989, 2012, 2015)
The Christmas Story: revision of a nineteenth-century poem
by Rev. F. C. Fisher (2001)
The Morning Is Graying (2008)
Come You with Wounded Hearts: a modern paraphrase of
"Come, Ye Disconsolate" (2008, 2015)
Metrical Version of Psalm 23 (2012)
We Sing Noel: revision of a nineteenth-century poem by
Rev. H. G. Rosedale (2014)
Metaphysical Poems
Soul's Testimony (1982)Sonnet to Christ (1984)
Autobiographical Poems
Prophecy (1970)Fireside (1975)
Olympic Speed Skaters (1976)
November Day (1990)
Traveling (2000)
Anniversary Sonnet (2013)
Occasional Poems
On Hearing Timothy McVeigh's Last Statement (2001)On the War in Afghanistan (2001)
Sonnet: On Hearing Leon Fleisher's Performance of Liszt's Piano Sonata
in B Minor (2004)
Replies to a Postmodernist (2008)
The Knight's Charge (2015)
Magnison's Adventure (2017)
The Wise Princess (2019)
Whimsy
Riding in a Car (70s)Spiders, Spiders, Everywhere (2002)
Grim Cheer (2004)