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
- Кондратий Рылеев – Людмила
- Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars
- Robert Burns: Halloween: The following poem will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but for the sake of those who are unacquainted with the manners and traditions of the country where the scene is cast, notes are added to give some account of the principal charms and spells of that night, so big with prophecy to the peasantry in the west of Scotland. The passion of prying into futurity makes a striking part of the history of human nature in its rude state, in all ages and nations; and it may be some entertainment to a philosophic mind, if any such honour the author with a perusal, to see the remains of it among the more unenlightened in our own.-R.B.
- Аля Кудряшева – И кстати, еще бывает уездный гор
- Elusive Lover by Renu Ayyar
- Epitaph for James Smith by Robert Burns
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона вторая
- Homing by Satish Verma
- Николай Заболоцкий – Городок
- Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet by Robert Burns
- Валерий Брюсов – Две испанских песенки
- Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press by William Shakespeare
- To the Author of the The Essay on Man by William Somervile
- Robert Burns: I’ll Go And Be A Sodger:
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
