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 Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No by Shel Silverstein
- At the Lake Pavilion by Wang Wei
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Blue Roses by Rudyard Kipling
- Blistering Attack by Satish Verma
- Don’t Tell Anyone by Tony Hoagland
- Владимир Британишский – Коптилки многолетний свет
- Exposure by Seamus Heaney
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 22. The path by which we twain did go poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Little Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Липы
- Praises to my motherland ! by Neelam Sinha
- Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
- Robert Burns: Farewell To Ballochmyle:
- Recorders Ages Hence. by Walt Whitman
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