meaning
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The Creative Process
So you'd like to write a poem? Use common words in uncommon ways. Only say what's authentic for you or it will land false. End with a punch, not below… Continue reading
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Monkeys
A group of monkeys,typing randomly in a room,will eventuallytype these words,exactly as I am doing now. <sigh> Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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It’s Over
"Put the tinsel down,"she said. "But…but, I'm not ready,"I protested. "We have to put this stuff away.We've talked about this." "But why?Why do we have to put it away?Why not leave it up all year?" "Because if it were up… Continue reading
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Christmas Cozy
I told himthat each year at ChristmasI like to read Christmas stories and Christmas poems. He said,"No one does Christmas cozy like Dirk!" And I thought of the story by Dickens I'd just read,about poverty and injustice in 19th-century London.I… Continue reading
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Existence/Experience
When my father died,I looked through his vast library,and ran my fingers over the polished surfacesof the furniture he had built,and asked,"What was the point?" Then, when my mother died,I looked at her wall of needlepoint,and thumbed through her boxesof… Continue reading
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Life is the strugglebetween Ego and Stillness. Chin up, my friend:Stillness wins. Or more precisely,only Stillness is. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Thinning Walls
How thin these walls have become,the walls between youth and age, between the conscious and the unconscious, between this world and the next, between my heart and yours, between our hearts and theirs. Permeable.Translucent. Through ever-thinning wallsI hear other voices.I… Continue reading
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Dry Day
I search for somethingpithy and wiseand come up with…nothin'. Oh, well. Today,all you getis a picture. It's a nice enough picture;find your own meaning. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Myth
"Myth,"he said,"is but the storiesthat give a culture or peopleits framework, its meaning.Myth is not fable or fiction;myth is another word for truth–essential truth–our essential truth,even when embodiedin tales that some may consider,well…improbable." The light from the firesoftened his lined… Continue reading
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For Me
My poems,my photographs–they live for me, to please me, to nurture me, to move me. Through them,I journey onward. Or, perhaps,they manifest for their own sake. Or, perhaps,for God's. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries.… Continue reading