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
- Upon The Hill And Grove At Bill-borow poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Николай Карамзин – Любовь и дружба
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On “Wee Johnie”: Hic Jacet wee Johnie.
- Sonnet Viii
- To Foreign Lands. by Walt Whitman
- Вера Павлова – В ранец тетрадки собраны
- The Decree Of Athena
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот для чего мужику самолет
- Ольга Седакова – Сказка
- To Natasha poem – Alexander Pushkin
- How Solemn as One by One. by Walt Whitman
- Love Expression in Marriage
- Lichtenberg by Rudyard Kipling
- Джон Китс – Делим яблоко Евы
- Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced by William Shakespeare
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