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
- Robert Burns: Verses Written With A Pencil Over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth.:
- To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory by Phillis Wheatley
- Keepe On Your Maske (Version for his Mistress) by William Strode
- A Voice
- Как воздух, математика нужна
- Ольга Берггольц – Какая тёмная зима
- Наум Коржавин – Меня, как видно, Бог не звал
- My arm for a pillow by Yosa Buson
- Buddha by Vachel Lindsay
- After Rain by P. K. Page
- “European Union” by the (Roman/German) Eagles
- Here War Is Simple by W H Auden
- Владимир Луговской – Пила
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ива (Как придется мне покинуть свет)
- Ок Мельникова – От киева до сантьяго
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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).
