Meeting with Te Rauparaha by Michael O’Leary

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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The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave 

Talking Writing Monster.

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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe

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