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
- Robert Burns: Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge:
- Юлия Друнина – Я ушла из детства в грязную теплушку
- Юлия Друнина – Чтоб человек от стужи не застыл
- Loot by Rudyard Kipling
- King Arthur’s Tomb by William Morris
- Gadara, A.D. 31 by John Oxenham
- Robert Burns: Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah More’s: Presented to the Author by a Lady.
- Олег Бундур – Запахи дня
- Please Don’t Judas Me by Mark Miller
- “Although no stupid scoffer, I” poem – Alfred Austin
- To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
- Old Ladies’ Home by Sylvia Plath
- Федор Сологуб – В лес пришла пастушка
- Аля Кудряшева – Трилогия перед годом (Цепочка ассоциаций)
- September 1, 1802 by William Wordsworth
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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).
