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
- Ashore
- Will Remain Unseen by Vasil Slavov
- Lord Of My Life by Rabindranath Tagore
- Омар Хайям – Не смешно ли весь век по копейке копить
- Does Our Spirit Fly Away by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Minoan Porcelain
- Medallion by Sylvia Plath
- Your Last Drive by Thomas Hardy
- House For Sale by Vinita Agrawal
- I Don’t Know If History Repeats Itself by Yehuda Amichai
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- Юлия Друнина – Ялта Чехова
- The Death Of A Fly by Russell Edson
- Olney Hymn 3: Jehovah-Rophi: I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee by William Cowper
- The Rwose In The Dark by William Barnes
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Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
