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
- Spirit whose Work is Done. by Walt Whitman
- To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The springtime of Lovers has come by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- THE WHEELS by Satish Verma
- The Pro-Consuls by Rudyard Kipling
- Омар Хайям – Имей друзей поменьше, не расширяй их круг
- Илья Эренбург – Я не трубач, труба
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Все люди
- Олег Бундур – Февраль
- Song—O Tibbie, I hae seen the day by Robert Burns
- Ольга Седакова – Прощание
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
- Elegie IV: On The Death of Prince Henrie by William Alexander
- Song Of Taj Mahomed
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