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
- Михаил Кузмин – В раскосый блеск зеркал забросив сети
- AN HYMN TO THE MUSES by Robert Herrick
- Вера Павлова – Вергилий в предсмертном бреду
- The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers by William Butler Yeats
- Ianthe’s Question by Walter Savage Landor
- Николай Языков – В альбом Ш. К. Фон-дер-Борг (Доверчивый, простосердечной)
- Ольга Седакова – Азаровка
- Владимир Маяковский – Что значило “празднование новогоднее”?.. (РОСТА №672)
- Evening balcony by Vladimir Marku
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Нина Воронель – Неровен час
- Владимир Высоцкий – Надо с кем-то рассорить кого-то
- Labyrinth by Sera Jacob
- Владимир Костров – Не банкира, не детей Арбата
- Notes To A Neophyte by Sylvia Plath
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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).
