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
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- To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
- Don’t Worry by John Oxenham
- Олег Григорьев – Зашли мы к Сизову с приятелем
- Listening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Thomson’s Edward and Eleanora.:
- A Man (In Memory of H. of M.) by Thomas Hardy
- Олег Бундур – На связи
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- Hortus poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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- Нина Воронель – Дождливый рассвет
- The Tree Of Song by Sara Teasdale
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