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
- Николай Языков – А. А. Воейковой (На петербургскую дорогу)
- The Human Tragedy ACT III poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – День и две ночи
- Lost poem – Alfred Austin
- In Thoughtless Mind by Satish Verma
- Nettles by Vernon Scannell
- Vagina Envy by Nin Andrews
- Олег Бундур – Чайковский
- Boris Godunov poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Baby’s World by Rabindranath Tagore
- Pride and Fury by Mahmoud Darwish
- Владимир Набоков – Будь со мной прозрачнее и проще
- Song Of The Wandering Jew by William Wordsworth
- Orlando Furioso Canto 4 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come by William Shakespeare
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