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
- Sonnet 11 poem – John Milton poems
- The Spring
- The Secret of the Machines by Rudyard Kipling
- Mi ha el by Vinko Kalinić
- The Manor Garden by Sylvia Plath
- An Epitaph by William Cowper
- Hero-Worship poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Dark Hour by William Henry Davies
- Ballade Against The Jesuits poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Юнна Мориц – Дрожащие губы и скрежет плаща
- Ad Quintilianum by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Цветок
- Николай Языков – Вот яблоки так яблоки, на славу
- Lines to Mr. John Kennedy by Robert Burns
- The Coronet poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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