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Tomorrow/Today
We dream of lovely tomorrows,but if all we do is dream of them,we never receive them. Now is the time to create those tomorrows. Tomorrow is today. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Sophia Again
She stepped from the broom closetlike a dinner guest exiting the powder room."Missed me?" she asked. "Like gas pain," I answered. "You know I'm here to relieve the pain?" "Yes, I know that." She eyed the box of Russel Stovers… Continue reading
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Advent Lantern
I hold my lantern overhead,and turning, look back at the past–such darkness blocks remembrance,only pinpricks of light in a field of black. I turn to look ahead.The light of my lanterncannot penetrate the fog of future's uncertainty.I hear muffled voices;unformed… Continue reading
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Haiku 2
silent, dusty roomsphotographs stand sentinelancestors whisper Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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The Mystery of Our Faith
Christ has died. I am lost in memory, in the traditions of my family and faith, in a past that both comforts and cuts, that hounds and heals. But the past is necessarily … Continue reading
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In the Forest
You are lost in a forest.The undergrowth blocks you.Trees lean in.Light fades.Unidentified noises circle. What dangers waitin the creeping darkness? You know, don't you?You've always feared your erratic behaviors your in-crowding thoughts, your disquieting longings, your… Continue reading
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Why Wait?
Why waitfor your life to begin? Why not start with,"This is what I want my life to be"and make it so? Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Did You Awaken Last Night?
Did you awaken last nightwondering where you fit?how you will continue?what is the point? So did I. And with us,so did the Beloved. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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This Garden
This garden,hidden up the hillabove the oldest gravestones,has a gate but no fence. I enter through the gate,though it means extra stepsaround the overgrown perimeter. This gardenis lush with silver leaves–no flowers, no buds preparing to open, no dried… Continue reading
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MLK, Denver, 2012
"We are in this together,"read the placard.And we were:black, white, Korean, Hispanic,Baptist, Methodist, Christian, Muslim,students and the aged (with canes),dreadlocks and crewcuts,Up with People and down with the system,male, female, gay, straight–an unlikely mix of one,just as God dreamed us. And… Continue reading