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
- Mary Morison by Robert Burns
- “Call Not The Royal Swede Unfortunate” by William Wordsworth
- Meditation With Feet
- Eve- Song by Mary Gilmore
- Hope And Riders
- Федор Сологуб – Тень решётки прочной
- A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts by Wallace Stevens
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646 poem – John Milton poems
- Book Review – The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
- Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old by William Shakespeare
- I know The Music (unfinished) by Wilfred Owen
- Sonnet. If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Профсоюзы – производства рычаг… (Главполитпросвет №10)
- Гавриил Державин – Оковы
- Ianthe’s Question by Walter Savage Landor
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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).
