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
- I Am Me by Patrick Neo Mabiletsa
- Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1791 by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars: Jessie’s illness
- February by Thomas Chatterton
- I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill poem – John Keats poems
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночью
- Song Of Faiz Ulla
- Immigrants by Robert Frost
- Джон Китс – Девчонка из Девона
- The Princess: A Medley: Come down, O Maid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Beachy Blues poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Григорьев – Я спросил электрика Петрова
- A Celebration by William Carlos Williams
- Out over the Forth (Song) by Robert Burns
- Яков Полонский – А. Н. Майкову (ответ на стихи его: Полонский! Суждено опять судьбою злою)
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