Introduction
2024
On the Departure of the Uninvited Guest
Sadness (again)
Television
Tears
Clash of Titans
I am NOT, Not Good Enough!
Prowler
Plumbing
Changes
An Argument for Christological Possibility
The Struggle
So Tell Me
Models
The Bible is Hard
My God Is!
2023
After the Depression
Even As ...
Unto You Is Born ... A Saviour!
Dragonflies
Everyone is Smiling
Oddities
Behemoth
Utter Confusion at The Vatican
Personal Glory
One Comment
Harps and Clouds
Learning
Confusion
Positions
Youth Sunday
Time Travel
Scrunch!
Joy
A. M. G. Rota
Mirrors
Lifted
Tenement
Change
Careful
Propaganda
Abomination
Reasons
Rain
Escalation
Praise
Afterwards
Golgotha
Hiding the Flashlight
You May Have Saved a Life
Grace
Don't Cry To Me
How Dare You
Book of Poems
Lazarus
Index
Tired
There Was A Time
4:00 AM
How Wonderful
I Will Not
Concern
Punctuations
Extrapolation
Thing
Need
King David - Faithful & Redeemed
The Uriah Incident
Another World to Sing In
Touchless
Self-Harm
Silence
Colour
BigWigs
Virtue
Thank You!
How To Win At Depression (again)
Sick Day
Pound!
Power
Forgive
Code Review
Communion
If ...
Why?
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Water
Adventurers
Come
Sometimes
Response
A Trip Downtown
They Had Us Here
Society These Days
Tent
Memories of Older Days
On Being Critical of Lyricists
Just Look! This Proves It!
Knowing
Definition: Tolerance
Calling Me
Green, or Grey
Wonderers
Big Box Store
My Mother
My Father
Small
The Dancer
Word Cloud
On Looking for the Trees
On Clouds Floating by on a Quiet Saturday Afternoon
What Privilege Has Taught Me About Predestination
Unagreed
The True Gospel
Faith
I Need a Mental Health Day
Ode to a Snowplow Driver
Vincent
Used to Be ...
Fellowship
The Support Technician's Lament
Faith
On fareh malik
Blessed by My Lack
Differences
BC
On Anselm
If You Ask God ...
Offence
Orthodoxy
Stepping Out
Instagram
Left Behind
My Hearing Isn't Perfect
2022
Before
Noel - At the Funeral of a Friend
Life Takes a Lot
There is Coming a Better Day
Dis-Unity
My Pup
Beach
Christmas Lights
Confrontation
I am at a Loss
Church History
Moon
Hold On to the Beauty
Columbo
On CCB, GAC & (In)Tolerance
Men, We Have GOTTA Talk!
Compliance / Science
Marquee
In Church (again) this Morning
Frail Tool
Infinity-Fi
The Point Is
Baptism
One Word
Live Action
Faith
In Church This Morning
Sometimes
Getting Better
Dependencies
The Telephone
In the Small Print
How Will I Do This
Silence Echoes
Say What You Want, But ...
The Instant We Say
Submission
Dear God
Not That Man
Portfolio Retention
Biblical Relativism
Feedback
After the Funeral
Friday, October 21, 2022
Death. Does. Not. Win!
Peace
I Have No Desire To Do This
A Horrible Day
Hope(less?)
Today
JatATD
It Wasn't Our Water
In the Echo
Thanksgiving, Twenty-Twenty-Two
Fear / Hope
Poetry Prize
Questions
Error, Not Found
What I Am Thinking About Today
Love, or Die
Logic
Andy at Fax Expo
Glory to the Maker!
Pro Life? Definitely!
Trouble with Fibs
On A Facebook Post
Death Shall Not Have This
They Stand On Guard
Isolation
Jesus Loves Me!
Every Now and Again
If ...
The Lord is Good
Unimaginable Love
Redrawn Walls
For Julia
S/He Is No Fool
Generations
Loneliness
Security
Grey
Neither Good Nor Nice, yet Righteous
Wayne
Bullet
What We Took Along
What I'm Happy For This Afternoon
My God
Pause
Is It Just Me?
God IS Good
My Own Forty-Two
Schindlers' Lessons
My God
It Wasn't Pretty
Scarlet, Yet White
On Easter Sunday, 2022
The Problem with not Using ALL the Data that God Gave You
Second Chances
Today
You're Not Here To ...
Wind
Truth, Come Out!
Sola ...
I Cried / I Didn't Cry
Lift
I Still Stand
Immunity
It Was Worth It
Words Spoken Over My Bible this Morning
Wondering
'Was' | 'Am'
Pettiness
A Poem for the End of the World
Blind Spot
The LORD Reigns!
Wrath vs. Mercy
Hope is Hope
The Prophet's Words
Certainty
Look
Michelangelo, David & Jesus
Liberty
Today is Not a Day for Celebrating
I Wonder
Sides
Broken / Fixed
Helpless
Did You Know This?
Hope
Show-and-Tell
Perhaps
Do Your Own Research
Love Diluted
Google Search Devotional
On the Night He was Betrayed
A Lesson in Anger
I Can Argue God
Blessed
Freedom
Facebook asks ...
Are You a Christian?
Good!
Selective Understanding
Jerry Can Theology
Democrazy
Trust
Zacharias
Today
Respected Minds
What Kind of Witness
I Weep
Sick of It!
Yesterday
Grace
Truth Unblemished
Lies
Pastor Aaron Rock Said This ...
Seriously?
Jesus is not a Tee-Shirt Logo
On the Raising of Lazarus
I'm Not Often Mistaken
Thoughts on Thoughts on a Facebook Post
Integrity and Courage
God's Blessing, God's Forgiveness
Graceless and Godless
Nicodemus Knew
The Weight of Cuteness
Sufficient for Me to Know
Marquee
This Place is Not a Good Place
Fool
Refraction
Another Sunday
You Deserve ...
2021
New Year
Monarch Testimony
Crosswalk
Trap
Reflections on Christmas Blessings
Ron
Distracted from Glory
God-given Rights
Poetry Prompt
Rhetoric
I Am Not A Good Man
TSO Messiah
Poetic License
Christmas
Snowflake
Winter
At the Bottom of it all, God
Truth
Space
Stan Lynn, a Remembrance
Tantrum
Black Friday
Ignorance
Habakkuk
Converfrontation
This City Intrudes
NASA, DART & Armageddon
Boy Inside the Man
My First Ocean
If I'd Known Then
My Friend's Smile
My Hope
Some of the Poems I Write
What If ... ?
Five Hundred Steps
Dear. God!
absent
Just Beyond the Door
Un-Followed
Uncertain, Fluid, Ground
A Problem of My Own Making
It's Sad, Really
They Couldn't Be Serious, Could They?
How I Felt About it Yesterday
To A Poet Some Time From Now
Pain & Faith
In Case You've Ever Wondered
Lamentation
This Disciple's Creed
Gibraltar
Questions
Water
Contemptible
The Silence
Doorbell
Stunted Conversationalist
Imprecation
It's Different Now
I Don't Know if I'm Dying or if I've Died
Be Careful
Respect
time
The Damascus Road
The Persecuted Martyr
I Don't Have the Time
"Whatever"
TRUTH!
Appointed to Live
Consent
The Birds
The Squirrel
The Weight of Words
And Then, This
Words
Glorious Day
I Don't Know
Wrong-Sided
They Sing
To A.M.
Broken
Isn't It Funny That ... ?
Abraham Kuyper's Spheres
No Neutral Ground
If ...
On a Review of 'Midnight Mass'
time
Golden Smile
Sunday Morning, October Third
To Pastor Artur Pawlowski
The Difference
Whitewashed Tomb
Some People
I Fail to See It
Flame
Arbiters of Truth
We Don't Understand
Exemplars
I Don't Care
Soul
And Not at all Like Either
Not Quite Darryl, Either
Not Quite Rosa, Buddy
How?
Evil Screams Against Love's Whisper
A Christian's Duty
Facebook Tells Me
Mark of the Beast?
Two Years Down
Sandbox
Echoes of a Grief Long Silent
My Great Good God
Not Understood
The Star
Secondary Issues
"isms"
Some Days
Online
Mis-Understanding the Cross
The Exegete
Politics
Hebrews 10:25
These Aren't the Facts
Far Too Many
If Any Person
No Other Place to Go
Poor Paul
Concerned
How Church Feels This Morning
What it's Like
Dreams
So Clever, So Very Clever
Overwhelmingly Blessed
He Is NOT Dead, Just Gone
What's the Issue
All Your Wonders
Canada Day, 2021
Any 'Normal' Person
I Disagree
Situational Hermeneutics
Just Jesus!
... and another thing ...
Bad Theology
Canada's Day, eh?
Crucible
Row Me a Boat
Shovel
(Un)Reality
Go!
Too Much!
Birdsongs
Useless ... Unless ...
Benevolence
Worry
MSM & Social Media
Don't Kid Yourself
Do Something!
Depravity
Greg Laurie is Said to Have Said
Precipice
Wishful Thinking
Freedom!
Of the Ninety-Five
Legalism vs. Grace
The Fault in My Code
Evolution's Pillars
Leave Off
Fury, Love & Confusion
Reflection
Orthodoxy
Rage & Vanity
Unbelievable? I Wonder ...
The Importance of Exegesis
Safety
So Good
If, Pastor, Then How?
Study
Understanding
Darkness
Hophni, Phinehas ... et alia
I've Tried Until I've Tired
The Father's Good
Shaking Hands with the Devil
Without Excuse
Dear John Letter
I Am A Christian
The Church Crowd
Comfort
I Miss ...
Irony
How Dare We!
Our Jesus / Our Witness
Trust
Going On ...
The Greatest Commandment
I Wonder
Hardly Berean
Church is Closed but God is Close
Opus
God
Pharisees
My Cloud of Witnesses
Signs & Wonders
Love Your Neighbour (a satire)
After Doris Died
Persecution Complex Too
Are You Sure?
I've Been Told
Some will Read
And the Band Played On
Why?
White Male Poets Society
Not Equal Enough
Depression
Rufus and Gravity
So, Now What
If You Say ...
How This Morning Feels
Rubin C.
Easy ...
The Day of The Lord
Above This Plane
Negativity
Beyond the Walls
Persecution Complex
The Gift
The Life-Cycle of a Cup, no, a Mug of Coffee
It's ... Complicated
Boycott
Prophet?
These Things
On Psalm 91
2020
Honourable Opponent
Diversity & Inclusion
A Night Like Any Other
We Three Kings
Max Brand Saved Maxwell House
Wonder
Net-Zero
Pain
Is This How?
Some Times
Authority
Flippped Out
Despair
Star of Bethlehem
Twenty Seconds
How Does This Reflect Christ?
Why I Will Wear a Mask
I'm Not Going Back to Eden
A Judge Too Easy
What Would Jesus Do?
my laughter fleets
Tired
What Do I Not Know?
Bottom of the Sky
Enough
Believe Me
True Brother
Ice
Un-Catholic
Some Days
God Saw - We Broke
How To Win At Depression
Put Down
Mirrors
Nervous
Overtures
Tell Me
Dogma
Free the Speech
Court of Appeals
Golden Sun
These Things
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
R.B.G.
Dark Side of the Moon
Afternoon
Kings
Beyond the End of Me
Barefoot
Choice
God, Asaph, Psalm 77 ... and Me
One Big Bang
I've Heard It Said
There are Days
Forgetting
Offended/ing
Signpost
Strange
Foolish
Conversation
Father!
John
Parasite
Sovereignty
Fearful and Wonderful
I Don't Get It
[In]Tolerance
Diotrephes | Trophimus
On Seeing God Taken Lightly
What 'She' Said
Not "Has Been"
On "The Chosen"
Not All It Was Meant To Be
Behind the Scene
Coasting on Yesterday
The Exegete
You're [Not] Alone
Black and White
What Will They Do Now?
One Body?
Escalator
I Did Not
You Don't Understand
The Way Things Will Be
Noise
Hate vs. Love
My Last Poem
I Don't Care
This Horror Must End
'Funny' Times
I Grew Up With This
We've All Lost In This
Rufus Sleeps
Don't You Dare ...
Trust
When
Nothing
Shoe Boxes
Fear
Memories
Laughter
Gov't <- Obedience -> God
My Dog Can't Tell Time
Check Your Source
Snake Oil
De-Humanized
Normal
Remembery
We Didn't
Furor
1967, Somewhere in the First Half of the Year
Grief.
The Fathers Have Spoken
Storm
Death is not the Victor
Palm Sunday, Two Thousand Twenty
The Reaper
Lines II
Lines I
Bansky Said ...
Smart Car
Blue Jays & Church
COVID-19 (2)
Hush
Going Back
COVID-19 (1)
Movie
Brave Rufus
On Reading Jane Kenyon
Stop-Motion
Every Seven Years
Liar
Fog
My Problems
What Will be Missed
Scale
A Bad Place
Hope
How I Learned to Swim
D.M.
I (Can't) Remember
Absence of Options
Gloom
And So ...
Dirge
The Smile
Catawampus
My Hero
Tears
Purveyors of Horrible Things
My Dog, Rufus
Hate!
My Friends Nicole and Laura
Days
I Can't Believe
Christie
The Gift
Absence
When I Woke Up
What I Think/Learn/Know
Choice
My Poor Dog
The Lines Are Pleasant
The Basic Goodness of Man Depends on the Perfect Good of God
Song for the IT Guy
Gone!
Falling
Colourblind
Another Note
First Moment in Heaven
Every. Single. Time.
Once Upon a Time
Bloody Golden Globe
This is not The Millennium
I WILL NOT
He Walked
It Is Unfortunate
How I Long to Write
This Lovely World
We Live
2019
How Christmas Looked This Year
My Poetry Kit
Today Finally Stopped
All Our Silent Bethlehems
At Times
Come!
You Don't Know
Un-Relaxed
Music
Small
250,000
Fruit
Mary, Did You Know?
White Island
Hope
We Just Don't Know
The Beautiful Things
Ajax Public Library
No Power of Hell Destroy
The Other Side of Paradise
Mercy!
Beautiful Day
Assurance
Remembering the Eleventh
An Incident at Shopper's
The Other Side
The Gloom
Flame
Torrent
Steps
Worries
Eagerness
Brutal Day
Who'd Have Known
Down in the Deep Dark Blue
Photographer
Worship
The Disciple's Message
It Used To Be Safer
'Zuckered'
Destruction
Nothing
Drowning
Worse Today
I Don't Know How To Stop This
You Know
Science ... Hmph!
Adherent
If One Could Ask
On Pastoral Tolerance
Tears
Poets (Not) Long Forgotten
WhenI Stand ...
A Beautiful Grief
One Every Five Minutes
So Tell Me ...
Aftermath
Empty
Speechless
Late Spring, Nineteen-Ninety-Nine
Alone
I 'Love' It
Sick Day
Surviving
Vine
Hypocrisy!
Joker
Two Wheels and a Motor
It's Not Your Body!
Oh, the Humanity!
Circus
Headline!
Sitting Silent
(In)Constancy
Chuckle
What was it all About?
You Called
Rain
Yesterday
This REALLY Can't be Happening!
Escape
Rain(bow)
Advice
Are You OK?
Sometimes ...
Not a Nice Person
Pill
Conversation
The Grand Thing
My Explanation
Guide
I Still Live!
Joy
LIFE!
I Am Also Sorry
This Can't Be Happening!
Of What Value?
The Sadness
Voiceless
Too Much Cheese
Garbage Outside Chik Fil A
We Live
Red Rider
What I Would Like
I'm Fine ... Really
Used to it
Bubble
Blue II
Difference of Opinion
Un-Remembered Joy
Your Words
Inclusivity(?)
I Don't Get It
Grace
What Did We Do?
Coffee
I Tried
God Does Not Change
Landslide
It Doesn't Matter
Just. End. It.
Try
Lunar Denial
Abeyance
Mask
Hard to be Certain
Tolerance
Alone
Worthless
After a While
Your History Won't Matter Anymore
Futility
Revelation
There
Turmoil
Me?
Do You Ever Stop ... to Think?
Just. Breathe.
Sneak Attack
False Hope
I Drank the Coffee
He was Different
Imitations
Absence of Reason
DDT
Hope!
Veneer
My Brave Face
'Rock'
What I'm Happy to Have
Eeyore
Tar
Too Many Heroes
Blue
Scaryness
Foolish
Jesus' Lost Tomb
What Do I Do Now?
Stuck
I Don't Know
Learning
Reality(?)
My Feelings Come Out, Some Times
I Couldn't Care Less ...
Forgiveness
Notre Dame de Paris, du Monde
Telescopeless
When?
Transience
My Smile is Bravely Huge
How My Depression Works
Hope
Why do I Love God?
I Have So Much To Tell You ...
Who Were You
Good Today
Forgive Others
How Must Heaven Weep
Maybe ...
Our Great Loss
The Scream
Not as Big as it Used to Be
Commons
October Comes
Tolerance
Speak the Truth
Every Person Knows
If You Only Knew
Truth Unseen
Yesterday
A Big Bang
Gilgamesh
Beneath the Altar
Dis/Agree
Threshold
Nietzsche
Everyone Knows
We Lost Too Much
As It Happened
Diverse, But ...
These Words
I Sat Before a Man
Toxically Masculine
You Who Stand at the Front Line
None Of You
At First I Thought it was an Accident
I Am Heartbroken
Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit
There Are Days ...
I Wonder
Today
Spock's Smile
Continuum
Today is Bland
Cameo
Evil Wants What Evil Wants
Me or Not Me
Victims Say Their Offender
'They' Say to Talk
Sometimes It's Easier
Oh My Father!
Advertising Conundrum
This Moment, Now
Appendix
My Fault
Not a Good Time
Covington
Light!
I Sit
Emptiness
Would Evil Confront Reason
Mis-placed Humour
Amelia
Security
Collusion
Today!
2018
The Fifty Percent 'Solution'
What Would We Do?
This World's Ruin Surrounds Me
Beneath the Stars You Lie Abed
Found on Facebook
My Words
Theological Discussion
Dancing Light
Christmas Hats
Uncertainty
Poesy
May You Live in Interesting Times
Even as I Act
Fidelity
Rufus' NASA Joke
Even the Best
White Picket Fence
The Quiet
This Road I'm On
Just Last Week
A Sign at The Munk Debates, 2018
Iceberg
Late Fall Afternoon
But on the Eleventh
Irritating
Our Golden Child
Dear God!
The Apostle Paul's Patent Cure
Anger
When?
Nothing
Supranatural
I Forget ...
Life Is Wonderful!
Staggering Toward God
Khashoggi
One of My Problems With Science Fiction
Listening
My Dog's Loneliness
It. Is. Hard.
Seasonal
My Cry is Silent
My Quiet Pool
My Reaction
Broken
The Gap
Dream!
Stephen Hawking's Big Question
Not Alone
A Crazy Day
Hints
Conversation with the Delivery Man
Ode to the Pink Pimpernel
Weakness
Dust
Thursday - Middle Evening
The Promise
Easy
Dear Mr. Trudeau
Crickets
Deathwalker
One of These Days
Crossing Jordan
Fractured
Looking for Beauty
Why
I Wonder
The Sunny Day
Rain
Tide
Ivy Lea
the interesting thing
For Charlie & Annie
Don't Look Down
It's Not Your Fault
Just Kidding :)
Box
Most of My Photos
I Would Never Harm You
My Smile Falls Off
You May Think
He Said Something Like
Father!
Gone Solo
Vacuum
Thoughts ... Prayers
Have You Ever Wondered
Fear & Division
I'd Like to Sleep
Frighteningly Odd
A Different Life
We Like to Blame These Things
Sometimes I Wonder
If Heaven Is
Expect the Worst
Rufus
I Am Broken
There Was a Time
From the English Patient
On "Vermeer's Hat"
When I Was A Kid
Sometimes
How Do We Know?
From My Office Front Door
Bond, James Bond
The Other Night there was a Racket
Beautiful!
One Hundred Years from Now
Purity
Conversationally Challenged
Sir Isaac & Me
My Prime Purpose
Browsing History
I Should be in a Boat
So Much Evil
I am not Heroic
NO!
These Casual Horrors
En Garde!
Well Now
Just This
Desperation
Wishful Thinking
I MIght Even
Out on the New Cut Grass
It Takes So Long
I Don't Know How
They Left Me Here
Some Times
Today is One. More. Day
So Many Years
Fifteen Seconds
Morning, Again
Leave the Doorway Open
Little Stella, Again
Event Horizon
Years
As I Am Now
On Earth
Sometimes, I Think
My Father!
Truth Surrounds You
So Weird a Place
You Wonder?
Un-The-Same
The Less Real
Where the Wind Wills
My World Feels Upside Down
Alone ...
How did I get Here
Best of all Possible Worlds
I May Not be of the Best Men
The 'Irony' is Staggering
Little Stella
TOgether
"The Alleged Driver ..."
If I Think
You Speak of the High Road
Imagination
The Hardest Part
Nothing Special
Communion
You Saved Me!
What You Could Have Done
Dancing on the Tightrope
Cain came to God with His Offering and was Angry
Just Because
I Want ... No
The Edge
On Being Overlooked
Crazy World
Gear
Will this be the new 'real'?
Chapters
The Door
We were Made to be Immortal
Faith - Hope - Love
The Wound is Deep
2017
Nineteen-Eighty-Four (Plus Thirty-Three)
Hope Springs Eternal
These Waves Crash Upon the Shore
I Win
You Don't really Want to Know, do You?
(In)Constancy
The Beauty of Life
I am Tempted at Times
I Crawled Out of My Hole, Slowly
Days Stand Atop Themselves
I See ... Wishing I Wouldn't Also Think
Echoes
This Cold Chamber Contains Me
In the News Today ...
I'm not Sure which are Worse
What Transpires
Add Another Letter
I was Alive when Apollo Flew
Can We do This/That?
On Listening to James Horner's Movie Themes
To a Friend
There is Nothing, Nothing at all
Were it not for God
The Tormentor
Mid-Standing Wild Stream's Torrent
so much "Us", so much "Them"
This Life so Sorely Needs a Light
Once Filthy
Jesus was there too ...
Falling Off ...
oh God be with me, today
The Calling
To Damascus
Some Days Life will Smile at You
Dave & Morley's Silence
I've a Hole Inside Me
Don't Presume to Tell Me
It Shrinks
The Mirror Shows Unfairly
2016
Praying to an Ineffective God
Nothing At All!
Yesterday, a Tear Filled Prayer
You Think it a Trivial Thing
Not the Biggest
To Maged Yacoub
It is Shown Me Constantly
You Laught to Scorn
Every Day
I do not Doubt
Not a Good Place To Be
Off to One Side
Bruised
Last Night ...
Pieces of Me
Death Flows Soft About Me
Alone
Sometimes I Wonder if I've Misapprehended God
I Feel Worthless
Her Voice, Lord, is Large
Oh Father, this World, it Cries
Brakes Squeal
Walled In
I am Weak
Is It Wrong?
Thomson
Abandoned on ths Lonely Shore
I See You And ...
I Would not Say what God has Said
"... and God said ... and it was so ..."
Speaking as a Man II
The Red Shirt's Song
I Wonder
This is not what makes Me Proud
Oh! Give to Me an Endless Sky
Should Love Grow Cold
The Soul has been Devoured
They that Love Their Sin Increase
What's the use
Speaking as a Man I
I Mourn Their Loss, These Forty-Nine
The Purpose of the Line Connecting Us
Don't go Blaming the Church for Your Pain
This. Has. Got. To. Stop!
Each Time You Open Your Mouth
HELP!!!
Sometimes Facebook Hurts
How can this Soul Please You?
Happiness
Alternates
Fortress (O. S.)
One Look at the World Around Us
Did You not Make this Earth
The Sower
It has been Often Said
The News is Depressing
I'm Sorry
Psalm 76:10
You Couldn't be more Wrong if You Tried
I am Niether Weak nor Small
We have Rebelled, are Rebels Still
May My Small Voice Praise You!
You Called here Home Before Me
Weep / Hope
We Bring the Good News
When ...
2015
Into that Silent Darkness
Even ...
Beside the Wild Water
Never
Plato
I do not Begrudge You Your Pain
Rose Left the Spectacle Before I Came
Today!
Across the Sea ...
It's Kind of Funny
Is it Naïve to Hope?
But Pray!
We Blame the Maker
Pieces of Me ...
An Invisible Man
I Know I Couldn't Continue
We do Good
There is not Glory Enough
Not with a Whimper nor with a Bang
God of all Creation
When You Told Me
It is Finished
Not Brittle, not Fragile Even
Am I a Man or an Automaton
Where Ways Divide and Heart Tugs Soul
Interchange
Do I Matter ... At All?
Cold
Will Anyone Care for Me
Je ne suie pas Charlie Hebdo
2014
Dreary Friday Before Christmas at Work
Have You no Clue What You are not Doing Does
None Untouched
Careless Snow Falls Through Indifferent Cold
What Kind of Love, then, is this?
This Morning in Church
dust
I Know that I Shall Never See
The Leaves are Changing Colour
I may not know all of Him
Sticks and Stones
Were I a Spade to See
Words may Make a Thing Seem Pure
I will Rejoice, for You are My God
Whatever's Written in Your Heart
So far from Joy Have I Fallen
Irresistible!
There is a Life that Grows Inside You
This Heart LIVES!
Rage
Joy Fleets as Summer Rain
The Greatest Proof of God We Need
Careless Words and Those Unspoken
A Mother's Love Reminds
Must be Some Almighty Love for Such a Hate to be ...
I Used to Have an Opinion or Two
I was a Child when Apollo
I Feel the Undertrodden
The Ship and the Storm
Reason ... Or Lies
God does not take Refuge
Once Upon a Time
You May Not Enjoy Hearing It From Me
Silence
You Deride My Words
I Came to the River and Stood by
We Could no More Restrain The God
Here I Stand
I Know how it Works
'nuff Said
I am Confounded and I Scream
I Celebrate My Holy Days With Joy
It Doesn't Matter what You Think of Me
We Can't be Certain of God
No Shoes in Heaven
Repentance and Change
An Instant from the Edge
I'm not a Bigot nor do I Hate
Holiness Corrupted
He Came to Me
He Came to Us
We On-Dwell a Spinning Ball
Try ...
A Facebook Poetry Collaboration with Tara
Snow
I am too Small and My Flesh too Frail
I Miss the World I Dreamed to Live in
We Shall not Walk Those Distant Fields
Contrary to What You Think
I Wrote a Poem Once
Disbelieving You are Made
It Is Winter
2013
If You Don't ...
"Christmas Brings Christianity Back for Me"
Silence
Let God Forget
Elusivity
Such a Hate Filled Place
In Days of Yore
So ...
Egg Nog
The Flame
Journey with Me, Won't You?
Haiyan
It WIll Not Be Enough
Dear God! Soon?
Were I ...
Exactly as I Indwell a Tent
We Too Have Grieved
Something Evil
Michelle
One Bright Day
Always Trusting Someone
You Say Such Things
We're Not All Like That ... Or That
What do You Know Now
I Couldn't Care ...
But for the Grace of God
We Keep Asking "Why?"
This World with Sadness Shroud
There Must be Something More
It is not of Myself, this Gift
You Caused Me Untold Harm
I Continue to seek Their Approval
I Didn't Deserve You
Should You Deirde My Faith
You are not Alone
Oh Lord
Bless the Lord!
They Ran
Hope!
STOP!
Deceived by "The Force"
Conundrum
I Weep for this World
We Live in an Age
Allegorical
2012
What Days Await
I Will Never Forget You
One Way
Life is Simply Delirious
Uncle Joe
On Chesterton & Lewis (et al)
"... died siddenly ..."
Suppose You ask me to Adopt
If I Teach My Child to Love
Joshua at Jericho
The Neighbours are Up In Arms
You can Wish all You Wish
You Sneer at Me, Ridiculing
Misapprehending Wrath and Love
"There Will be Blood ..."
The Price
You Stand Your Stolen Pulpit
Oh, Mary
Truth!
How God Sees
Canaan
Wet Paint
You Ask
You Were
I'm Not With Miley Ray On This
We had such Dreams
2011
Where Would We be Without You?
The Way
Look Deeper
Sledgehammer
Hope
Bethlehem
Sufficiency
I Could Not Have Lived
As Long As ...
Wandering (2)
Wandering
Breathe
It Stands Firm
In This World
WHY?
Powerless
At this Road's end
Infinity's Edge
Jack ...
Delayed Reaction
Who Cares
Taking the Days
Comes the Day
... and I must go ...
The Year Wound Down to its Close
Rigel Burns Blue
2010
My Redeemer Lives!
Anger vs. Justice
You ...
Monster II
Monster I
Hope Filled & Bright Eyed
It's Only Me
That's Not How ...
Yes! I Will Love You Tomorrow!
I Long for Your Salvation, Oh Lord
Oh! Bleak February
He Is!
i am nothing
2009
Perspective
None So Blind
Victus!
Could One Prove God
He Will Kill You
My Fingernails are Ripping Out
So Great a Good
I'm With Miley Ray
Come, Grow Old With Me
Days Pass Slowly By
This Road has Walls
Lousy Sucky Stinking Day!
Thursday Morning - July 23
There Will be GLORY!
Sunday, After All
All is Well
I Don't Know How to Think
Do You ...
D-Day: 65 Years Later
Facing Jericho
What God Sees
Surprise!!
Is it Me?
I Inhabit this World You Gave Me
You've Been Lied to
Things are not as they Seem
"Oh God! Our Help in Ages Past"
Running Out of Time
Mercy
Basking in You
What Now?
Created for Him
2008
You Must not Mourn for Me
Never Again
Lest We Forget
We Cannot Forget Them
It's Hard to Soar with the Eagles
The Gift
Gibraltar
Allegorical Steak
The Test
Where it's Safe
Temptation
Rescue of the Rebel
Monotony
I Stop
2007
Do You Know I'm a Christian?
Look Around You!
Job didn't Hide His Pain
I Am Man
It is a Lonely Road
I Would let go
He is not Just the God of Christmas
Sometimes a Stranger
I Shall See His Face!
I am a Missionary
2006
Sarah at the Grammies
Emissary
"Oops!"
Aijalon
John Steinbeck, He Knew
Why Only the Eleventh
We Came Across God
Thank You God that I did not Evolve
boJ
Elijah - Me
This is no Trivial Life
Hezekiah's Prayer
Continuity
Everyone Does Not Know
My Question
The Water Awaits My Entry
"This Man Receiveth Sinners!"
My Dog lays Trap-Wise
Lost In ...
Trust You with My Life
We Die Together
Like the Air
Where Does One Go When
God! Help Me!
Might as well Laugh
Hypocrisy
Sometimes a Day Goes by
2005
His Light has Come Upon Us
Opposable Thumbs
Easy
One Million People Weep
Noble Words
A Father's Days
Oh LORD! I Need You
Wishful Thinking
On Reading of the Death of Hunter S. Thompson
Nothing here but Us
Broken Body
Under the Shadow of Bigger Kids
Standing on this Little Ball
2004
The Schedule
I Know how this Works
I Don't Want to Smile
At that Time
Darkness Descendant
The Long Dark Night of Peter Rhebergen
Why Believe in Such a God
Look at Me!
Job - Closely Held by God
Hockey Naught in Canada
At the Center
There are Insufficient Words
First Beagle 2, Now Genesis
How Dare We
Beslan
Temptation
And Yet
The Dark
There is too much Grief in this Place
The Smallest Work of God
If Us, Why Only Us
Perhaps ...
What Lies Ahead
It Would Seem Odd to Give a Child Poison
To Mr. Svend Robinson (again)
They would have as Love what is not Love
Ah Today, One Could Dream of Summer
Just Say "NO!"
Dancing
2003
Has it Come to This
Empty (of the Colour of Christmas)
Why?
To Mr. Svend Robinson
We've Found the Universal Unity
Do I Weight Least at Noon
An Other Lost One Found
Ignorance of Grace
I am Like One Who has Died
Two Sides to the Same Fence
There is no Place, There is no Time
Faith Suffers not Embarrassment or Shame
Empty Parents Weeping
Glorious Light Shines Down from Heaven
2002
They Believe the Fabled Atlantis
That is not Love what You call Love
Vanity of Man
Pride
Bed-Ridden, Pain-Wracked, Deserted by Hope
Explosion on Coming Home
Found in My Basement
Leahy
I Have Tried to Weep but Cannot
Two Weeks Later
If You Could See My Face
Thursday Morning
A Man Dearly Loved
2001
The Longing of Home
And They Shall Be One
They Must Never Be Forgotten
Dear God I want to Cry
No Such Thing as Safe
The Day the World Changed
These Fragile Bones
There Was a Time I Felt I Knew
The Silence
The Glory
Not so Obscure a Place
A Poem on a Sunday Afternoon
"It Happened Once"
God or Fraud
How Kind of God to Give Us Time
Mini-Vacation
Blindsided
Echoes of The Glory
The Highest Service
Everything I Do
Our Greatest Loss for God's Greater Gain
We Buried what used to be You Yesterday
Strange that it didn't Make the Paper
To Friends Long Distant
Away from the Body, at Home with the Lord
"If God wants Me to Die ..."
My Neighbour Doesn't Understand
Mac Asked Me to say Grace Last Night
Afterwords
I Stumbled Upstairs
We Only have the Now
Lost
Dedication of the Land
The Fool has said in His Heart "There is no God"
He Came as a Breath of Fresh Air
Good God, What Creatures be These?
2000
Standing on My Own
A Universe of Two
OK, So it was a Busy Morning Today
The Name of the Lord in My Children's Songs
Does the Reward Validate the Effort
Helpless Before the Power of God
Writing on the Sand
Man His Greatest Attempt at Perfecting
The Rose has Fallen
Jairus
Could a Blind Man Lead?
Floating
Darwin's Mind Conceived a Thought
Catching David's Fire
Optimism Without a Hope
I Had Thought, 'scarce a Year Gone by
The Gift
Just Large Enough for Fire to Warm
The Arrogance of Man will be Brought Low
That I Thought Would Bring Me God
They Lie Peacefully Abed
Some Would See This World Of Stuff Alone
Sitting on the Couch
And Again
It's More Difficult in the Evening
I Begrudge Them Lord, These Men
I am not a Strong Man
The Increase of Wickedness
Comments on a Man's Magazine
On the Cover of a Man's Magazinee
Maxim
The Fool has said: "There is no God"
Does No One Care, Does No One Know
To Shaun
The Pit
I Want to Hurt
To O.P.
Last Night
Your Tears
Me, After January 23, 2000
1999
The Event of a Thousand Years
To My Sister - In Memory of the Days of Dreams
The Lark Ascended
Down in the Family Room
To my little bundle of sunlight, on a special day in the fall
Tracey in God's Care
Never a Cry
Ivanhoe, Saturday Afternoon, 1999
Sunday, Evening Sermon
Noon - July 20, 1999
Outside, My Children
Make Like a Fossil
Leaving Self
A Workday Morning
Fifty-Five Years Ago
Sunlight
Songs of a Dead Man
Hope - A Memory Before They Begin
Letting Go
To Emily, Daniel and Julia
What if They Gave a Newscast
Leaving Earth
March has Come, Entering Lion Like
Thirsting for Life in a Universe Devoid of Sign
I am not of Buchan's Heroes
How did You do it?
Too Much on Angels We Confer
Almighty God this World has Made
Jim Parker came to School last Month
1998
Aircraft Down in the St. Lawrence
Found November 1998
After the Thirty First
Remembrance Day 1998
Upon Learning of the Death of an Israeli Soldier
Foresaken
Living in the New Town
Mocking Grace
Worshipping Earth
Each Attempt to Learn
A Reflection on Being Improperly Prepared
Paul
Rose
The Thunder
Wrapped Within a Shroud of Stars
I Saw You on the Road that Day
Oh that I Could Fly High Above this Place
On Occasion We Would Wish to Ask
Our Children's Blood
Upon Children Awaking at Awkward Times
Oh! I Wish I Lived in Quebec Today!
Beyond the Walls
Today I am Ashamed to be a Canadian
We Sang "Amazing Grace" Last Night in Church
The Untempting
Where Our Wonder Went
Facing the Cross
Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward
I Asked His Help Along the Way
Looking Back
Cast Upon the Care of God
A Leap of a Different Kind
They Throw Themselves Carelessly
Void
Just Another Day in Paradise
1997
Echoes
A Hand, Clutching
Not Man's Primal Roar
It's a Grand Day Out
No More Embarrassed by What i Am
The Stars O'erspread the Sky
You Will Not Go Wrong
Centennial Road Standard Church
Oklahoma
Brian, and He that he Reflects
A Parable for the Toolman
The Unburdening
It Starts off Slowly
The Genius Behind the Words
As Embers Die
The Other Side
Found Summer 1997
The Next Logical Step
Even a Callous
I'd Rather Have Jesus
Flotsam
The Price of Joy is Far Too High
I Rejoice when Goodness Triumphs
People are People
Death Row
D-Day - June 6, 1944
Our Clocks are Slowly Dying
Act Two
Mid-Afternoon Walk
June 4, 1989
Poison'daire
The Square Circle
New Blinds
Karawynn III
It is Calling Me
Karawynn II
Something Once I Tried to Grasp
Karawynn
Corywracken
If I am not a Man of God
Far too Close to Home
It Matters Not
They Stride as Kings
Where the Cannibals Live
You Cannot Stop a Dog from Being
A Line from Babylon 5
One Said, Long Ago
After
I Stand not at the Parting of the Ways
I Squandered a Wander
After the Mormons Left
Odd
Foundation
I Think Therefore I Am
up! Up! UP!
The Blank Page
Bill Cosby Jr. was Killed Yesterday
1996
I was Reading
Did You Ever Wake up at Night
The Lost
To Serve Man
Once Again I Prove My Mortality
A Deathly Gap Exists
Pillar of Flame
I Walked Into His Room Last Night
I saw Andromeda!
If I had Words
Behind the White there lies the Black
Ever Closer to the Night
I am not a Bigot
Ah 'tis Spring
After Milton and His Sort
A Treatise on the Christian Life
I Have Inside this Skin of Mine
Not a Soul Would Note
Credit to Your Race
1995
The Gallery
And God Spoke
1994
Sidetracked
LORD! It's Come Again
God is Love!
I Came Face-to-Face with True Love
1990
Again I Prepare to Leap
See that Man Standing there
Death!
Shelter
To Penny
Before God
Fog Obscures Toronto
Walking Alone
Get Back You Evil Horde
1989
Too Much We Take For Granted
LORD!
Here I am
Leavings
I had it Once
You, the Beginning of God's Creation
"In the Beginning God ..."
Truly Jesus You are Great!
For the Geleynses
My Parents After the War
Final Draft
First Draft
Autumn Landed Hard Today
Sadness
How can Tomorrow Come
There is Condemnation and condemnation
I Stood Aside
I Hate this World
I Realized Lord
Gabriel Came In
Sometimes I Fear
Something in Me Permits Me Live
Here I am, Lord
It is Evening
In The Commons
My Lord! Why?
It may be My Exhaustion
I Walk Upon this Earth
I Have Suffered Adam's Curse
I Praise My God
In Memoriam - A Self Portrait with God
In Memoriam - A Self Portrait
Yes!
For a Time
The Grief Hides Deep
How can I Reconcile
How Dare You Demons Curse
Looking Back
Do You Know how Good it Feels to Dance
Clouds Boil Overhead
Mourner's Cup
Ah, But Life Goes On
I am but One
A Pause
Sun Rising High
I Can't Forget Your Love
My God! The Grief You Felt
Dad
For Opa and Oma: Early Farewell
1988
The Battle Rages
Madison Square
God is Great, God is Good, Let Us Thank Him ...
Oh Lord! You're Beautiful!
We Take it so Casually
To Auntie Anita
Unanswered Questions
Chicago
Who Will Bless the Givers
Lord, Who am I
Another Test I've Failed
My Companion
For Richard
The Guys on Fuller
Outside the Storm Winds Blow
The Fear of the Lord
To Those Who Pray
We Had Our Moment Today
Thank You, My Lord
The Goal to Which I Walk
My Friend, You Are Confused
This Heart of Mine Demands Me Weep
I am a Dreamer
I Have Once Been Young
The Answered Prayer
To Steve Vanderhilt and Larry Ablen
"Dear Pete"
Creator of the Rain that Thunders Down
Material Things
On My Desk Beside Me
I Read in the Bible
On the Edge of Sanity
Our God Reigns
Autumn
To Ron Visser
Where Gratitude and Grace are Met
This Morning Lord
For Mike Baxter
To My Friend Randy
Thunder Rumbles Outside
In Your Image
Outside My Window Trees are Aflame
For Dave Boonstra
They are Born Alone
So What do I do Now
"Come!"
This Is It
I'm Sick to Death of Covering Up
To Opa and Oma
A Poem for Darlene
The Craziness of the Weekend
Hole in the Sky
Found August 20, 1988
Could I Become
A Metal Scream Echoes in the Night
I Saw the Tree Tonight
I Saw You Toniight
How can this Body Sing
He has Depths of Honour
Genesis 4:7
Tomorrow is Friday!
Part Two
Part One
Speed
A Bird Flies
Again, Tonight
You Who I'll be Leaving
And Even So
Sometimes
Outside, Snow is Falling
Did You see the Sun this Morning
Dear Al, Dear Judy
Down in a Pit
On Parting
Me, On January 21, 1988
The Sun Rises this Morning
1987
Close to the Edge
Great Lord!
Clean!
Here We Wait
To Emily, and to Life
They Praise Your Name
Sun's Coming Through the WIndow Now
Quiet
Tribute
Drowning
You Stand there Smiling
Jesus Loves You
You Who Stilled the Wind and Waves
Last Night in Prayer
On Laughter
To Al Bennink and Judy Jonkind
Oh Lord, You Have Clothed Me
Today
To Kim Probst
To "Opa" Hoftyzer
To Light You Think to Call me
Not too Long for this World
Standing in the Rain
To Lee (II)
To Lee (I)
Dad and I
After Karltje '87
Rain Drops
Evening Service, April 5, 1987
To John
Were I Outside
Today is Dead
I Know Not What
An Afternoon with Pete & Kelly
Thank You Lord
The Sun Shone Bright
For a Time
Being Men of Saintly Calling
The Skies were Red
Distant Brother
Undeserving
To Cathy
to Ev Flim, an other friend
Great God
It Is Over Now
Sitting Beside You
1986
201 rue de la Commune
My Two Horses
After a Time
We Sit Here Now
Words
One Night
Relief at St. Joseph's Oratory
Staring at the Floor
Encounter
To Kim Probst
Stories that Lay Locked Inside
Reflection
Moira River
The Rain (part II)
The Rain (part I)
Late at Night
thoughts at bedtime
Those Who Hold the Storm Clouds Back
Shadows Flit Across the Floor
In My Soul Lives Death
David Beneath the Stars
Upon Hearing You Sing
SItting Here
I Took the Chalk Within My Hand
Focus
Life
Childhood Missed
The Colours are Changing
To Dough H & Darlene B
Let Your Mouth Never Speak
Monday Went Like Lightning
You Created, Oh Lord,
To John and Marian
A Score and Five I've Lived
You Sit Aside
Heroes
Late at Night and I Come Home
Do They? I Don't Know
Rainbows, Friends and Miracles
If I am Less than Perfect
Could it be that
Love, Anger, Grief
Winks and Smiles
The Song has now Been Sung
Clouds
Shame
A Hole
They Asked Me at Work
Silence
Spring!
Twisting Trail
Children's Voices
What Would Be
Winter Returns
Here I Am
There Should be Dancing
Genesis 22 v. 1
You sit Across from Me
In Memoriam, John Prinsen
Words Fail Me
Tiny Little Feet
He Rose from the Dead!
Homeward
Paraphernalia
How do I Return to Life
You Say to Me Be Still
Late in the Evening
The Wages of Sin is Death
Cast Yourselves off from Me
Two Way Street
His Life Entire
To Luke Meuller
He has in His Possession
1985
At Last I Start to See
Alive, and Kickin'
I Must Sing Your Song
Sing and Dance
Standing by the Road and Tall
Frost
Around the Edges
Screaming Through a World
I Heard Your Name
Honour Held
The Second Hand
To God, In Thanks for Friends
Outside in the Sun
Let Me Praise My Lord
A Fall of Leaves
Friends
Rocking for the Lord
I'm Going to Live this Moment
I Long to Honour You
Andy DeBruin
If
The Morning Broke Through
We are the Light
Last Night
Pray for Me
Idiotic Ramblings
Thank You, Lord
I Always Seem to be There
Margins
Confronted
And Miles to Go
Staring
I Lie
Uneven
Look Forward My Friend, Look Forward
Lord, Because of You
Lord, My God
Silence
The First Hour took a Week
Am I, Lord, One
You Stand Before Us
Late at Night
Today, Lord
Lord, I'm Confused
Distant, the Thunder Sounds
How You Must Have Wept
If I would Talk with God
Images
My Friend
Lying on the Grass Alone
Retreat
You Left Your Flower in the Car
If
With These Hands
A Wish for You
Long and Lone I Wandered
When in Dark Despair I Wander
Behind a Pile of Bricks
To Ron, a Friend
The World About Me
Douglas, Roger and Dad
A Man, Disillusioned
The Feet of Playing Cats
For You to Understand
Late at Night
Lord's Day One
Here I Am, a Man
Hosanna!
Out in the First Morning
Walking
My Friends
Monday Morning Sun
Once I Looked on You
A Year and a Week
1984
401 and Shopping Malls
Upon Reflection
Why
A Smile
Above My Wandering Eyes
Distant, the Thunder Crashes
Ah, 'tis Autumn Once More
By Living
To the Depths of Heaven I Ascended
You Came Into My Life
Thoughts Upon Returning
Wars Raging
Puzzlement
There is a Barrier
Her I Am
It is Monday
Caught Up in a Streamer
Searching
Look! The Stars
Up High
Alarm Ringing
The Walls are Built
Landmarks
Woke Up with a Mist
Luke 19:40
Stars in My Eyes
Friendship Ring
Old Sol Dances in His Fields
At Last!
What is a Friend
Out on the River are Two Men
Rainy Night on Front Street
Gems Along the Way
Why?
Cheese Run
On that far Horizon
Christ is King!
Happy-Sad
Riverview March
How do I say Thank You?
Insight
It's Night Again, Lord
Redeemed!
Heat that Rises
Paper Dream
The Moon's a Reflection
Autumn (the fall)
At One Moment WIld
Two Men Came to the Lord
Gems in Flight
Skis Rasp on the Snow
Sing Oh Earth
Life Goes On
Flaming Against the Sky
Late in the Day
Staring Into a Mirror
1983
A Life I Wanted
This World with all its Beauty
When the Lake is Green
For Unto Us a Child is Born
My Lord, You are Great
What do You do when the Music Stops
Snow
A Friend is One
You Thought it was Yours
I Can Sing
To Those Who Wondered
Lord, It's a Beautiful Day
Vortex
Tonight It Rained
I Know that Without God I Would Die
I Can't Stand Alone
Crosswords
Lord, Show Me Your Hand
He Came with a Song
I Come Home at Night
All the Little Things
I'd Just Returned from a Weekend
Roll Back the Curtain of the Mind
Let Me Have the Innocence of a Child
The Word Once Written
Bindweed Parable
Thunder Rumbles in the Distance
He's Left
Rejoice!
From Here
Shelter Valley at Night
Echo
Yesterday-Tomorrow
Give Me a Padded Cell
That Distant Bird
Macabre Circus
Does the Sun Shine Only
Have You Heard the News?
No Turning Back
Welcoming Committee
1982
I Sit Here
Here's to the Dreamers
My Friend
Man on a Tight Rope
Impossible Dream
The Artist
Antagonist
Autumn Ride
The Promise of Tomorrow
Autumn's Hand Again is Shown
O God You Let Me Live
Master of the Storm
Buildings Upon a Block
I've Got to Sing
Questioner
Time Goes On
O Man, I Must Live
1981
One Death
1980
I Wander Through This Place
1979
I Met My Neighbour by the Way
I Mount on Wings of Siling Might
Dad
1978
You Are ...
1977
The Forgotten
1972
I Took a Stroll

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