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 – Из письма к Булгарину
- Владимир Британишский – Матери моей
- “`Were I a Poet, I would dwell” poem – Alfred Austin
- Missile – A Tanka Poem
- Sweet Colonnade by Vasil Slavov
- Give Me Back My Rags #4 by Vasko Popa
- Sonnet LVIII by William Shakespeare
- София Парнок – Белой ночью
- On the Grasshopper (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Keeping the Dawn by Shaunna Harper
- An Immorality poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Ah Poverties, Wincings and Sulky Retreats. by Walt Whitman
- A Walk After Dark by W H Auden
- Юнна Мориц – Мой подвал
- Sonnet LXX by William Shakespeare
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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).
