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
- Vaulting by Satish Verma
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- George and Sarah Green by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet II. To ****** poem – John Keats poems
- Asparagus – A Tanka Poem
- A Lyric to Mirth by Robert Herrick
- On Fair Compassion by Nithin Purple
- Come Sleep, O Sleep! The Certain Knot Of Peace by Sir Philip Sidney
- I Ask Someone To Resolve by Shahida Latif
- The Candle Indoors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Огарев – Хандра
- Friday’s Child by W H Auden
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грусть моя, тоска моя
- The house where I was born (08) by Yves Bonnefoy
- Conversation With My Heart by Russ Pergram
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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).
