Best Onder Poems

Joy to the World
Joyful angels around the Infant King
Ode to God's only Son in chorus sing
Yonder He lies; one day peace He will bring

To a...

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Will you come with me where
Everything is magical?

Wonder awaits you, and everything
Is beautiful!
Leisure can be ours, with
Luxury surrounding us!

Pack your bags.
Are you 
Ready for adventure?...

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Getting old I view death differently,

Recalling both the good days and the bad. 

Eventually, everyone will die

And death should be as momentous as birth

Tomorrow's sunrise...

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The true title is Honey Bee (since it is an acrostic!)

How busily you work, oh little honey bee,
On waves of breeze beneath blue summer sky,
Nectar...

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Elements Part 3: WATER - Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Davey


I've seen pictures but never the authentic beauty,
for one can never explain such flowing cascades,
Niagara Falls has...

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A season to delight, to sing and thrive

Birth of spring beckons new life

Casting aside the winter nights

Dancing gay the flowers bloom

Endless days of soothing clime

From...

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As jy jou pyn buite wys 
sal vriendelike,
Irreterende vreemdeling 
jou inlig dat die wêreld 
aanhou draai.
En hulle is reg.
Dit doen.
Maak nie saak hoe hard jy...

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S etting sun
T ransforms my vision
A cross a wide panorama 
I nvitations of light absorb me with 
R eflective thought
W eighing me into lights transforming
A...

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Go, go my dear butterfly
On to the garden of flowers you go
Don’t ever funk to flutter in wind
'll be watching your funny leaps.

So gracious from...

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M instrals praising her charms
E mpress of the sea
R emorsefully romantic rhapsody
M esmerizing are her deep blue eyes
A stral and ancestral
I ntense as she is...

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SCAT...

			I don't want to play.

			L isten: Don't 'meow!'
			O utside with you, please.
			V acate my house now.
			E veryone will sneeze!

			Y onder is a pine tree.
			O ut...

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In My New Year’s Resolution I Vow


I solemnly declare under oats on the libel to walk

N aked with only a bellow with fellow utopians 


M...

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Powerful!  Such is poetry at work…
Oh!!! So overwhelming at its best
Earnest in its evocative essence
True to its communicative trademark
Revealing realities, ready for responses
Yes; verily...

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Wonder what joys may we proclaim
Endure love, happiness, peace and freedom

Whether it be through storm, struggle or strife.
Inhibit not your pain; temporally numb 
Limit only...

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L ove is the most pervasive of life’s mysteries
I nnate when the newborn first cries out
F or mother, beginning their shared histories,
E ventually knowing with...

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