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
- Шекспир – С любовью связан жизненный мой путь – Сонет 92
- Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy
- Robert Burns: On A Swearing Coxcomb:
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Британишский – Как турмалин, что субстанцию сланца
- Doggerel by a Senior Citizen by W H Auden
- Robert Burns: My Girl She’s Airy: Fragment
- In The Hills Of Shiloh by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Высоцкий – Хрущёву
- Here’s to the Mice! by Vachel Lindsay
- At the Sea-Side by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Burns: You’re Welcome, Willie Stewart:
- Олег Григорьев – Мотылек
- Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns
- The Mystic Isle by Rainbow Reed
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