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
- Вера Павлова – Сражаться с прошлым
- Владислав Крапивин – Спокойная ночь
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарище, не забывайте о Врангеле-бароне! (РОСТА № 116)
- Cinderella by Sylvia Plath
- Untitled II by Yunus Emre
- Кондратий Рылеев – Извинение перед Н.М. Тевяшовой
- Demon by Vladimir Marku
- Николай Заболоцкий – Сон
- Dark spring by Yvor Winters
- The Gallery poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Child Is Father To The Man by Ted Hughes
- I Begin To Think by Satish Verma
- Юрий Коринец – О счастье
- Psalm 86 poem – John Milton poems
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
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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).
