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
- The Thin People by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet CXLIX by William Shakespeare
- Denner’s Old Woman by William Cowper
- Pain Became My Friend Today © by Shannen Wrass
- Epitaph On Mr. Chester Of Chicheley by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: The Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie: On giving her the accustomed ripp of corn to hansel in the New Year.
- If I To You But Sorry Bring poem – Alfred Austin
- Ольга Ермолаева – Ты где летал, мой падающий с Фанских гор
- Looks A-Know’d Avore by William Barnes
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- On His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
- The Starlight Night poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant
- To Ireland poem – Alfred Austin
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