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)
The Wise Princess (2019)


Whimsy

Riding in a Car (70s)
Spiders, Spiders, Everywhere (2002)
Grim Cheer (2004)