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
- Where The Mind Is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore
- Алишер Навои – На лице горит созвездье у красавицы моей
- Николай Заболоцкий – Слепой
- Николай Языков – Две картины
- To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There by William Cowper
- Николай Карамзин – К портрету Ломоносова
- Cheery Beggar poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Геннадий Айги – Дом в поле
- The Search by Pornika Ganguly
- Валерий Брюсов – Из ада изведенные (Астарта! Астарта! И ты посмеялась)
- The AntiWorlds poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Robert Burns: Despondency: An Ode:
- Николай Гумилев – Мужик
- Postip by Manolo Arriola
- Lullaby of the Onion by Miguel Hernandez
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
