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
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- From an Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnets CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Old Ladies’ Home by Sylvia Plath
- Year that Trembled. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XLV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- To Mrs Reynolds’ Cat poem – John Keats poems
- Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book poem – John Milton poems
- Ode to Winter by Thomas Campbell
- A Sonnet Occasioned by the Bad Weather Which Hindered the Sports at New-Market in January, 1616 by William Drummond
- Boldness in Love by Thomas Carew
- The Wife Of Usher’s Well poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Plunge poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Here, Sailor. by Walt Whitman
- A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale
- Essential Beauty by Philip Larkin
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