Meeting with Te Rauparaha
by Michael O’Leary
The early evening finds me
Emerging from the water
At Paekakariki Beach
After swimming long and deep
The late summer colours
Cover the sky and the hills
I am alternately looking from
Land to the seaward visage
Towards and beyond Kapiti
My eyes straight to the horizon:
He stands suddenly beside me
He has heard I am with
A Raukawa girl, and he gives me
A distant, yet easy blessing
The beach towel over my shoulder
Becomes his korowai as a koha
So, the great man who haunts
This coast has visited me
In friendship and aroha, and
When I look away, he is gone
End of the poem
15 random poems
- To Emily Dickinson by Yvor Winters
- Олег Сердобольский – Угадай, в какой руке
- Владимир Маяковский – Спросили раз меня: “Вы любите ли НЭП?”
- Ольга Берггольц – Новогодний тост
- Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive:
- August 1968 by W H Auden
- The Gardener XI: Come As You Are by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Bonifratrian Hospital by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Валерий Брюсов – Лед и уголь
- Николай Гумилев – За часом час бежит и падает во тьму
- On Mr. Gay poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Unknown Bird by W. S. Merwin
- Crepuscule du Matin poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Альфред Теннисон – Лорд Борлей
- Characteristics Of A Child Three Years Old by William Wordsworth
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