Photography
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Today, Online
Today,online,I searched for a wePhone,a wePadand a wePod.<sigh> Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Summer in the Desert of Solitude
It's summer in the desert of solitude: naked sky, scouring wind, relentless sun.My pores open;Truth drips like sweat. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Before
Before you walked into the bar that Wednesday night,before you smiled and nodded,before you arrived at the table with your drink,before you broke open my heart to the renewed possibility of love,I had forgotten I was lacking you. Text and… Continue reading
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The Ocean’s Unraveling
Waves crumble on the beach;it is the ocean's unraveling.The sun's sterile glare chills me;I pull my dark-knit precepts more tightly about me. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Jeremy’s Wisdom
Do you know someone like this? "I don't really have anything to say to you, so…here's some words…" Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Standing Your Ground
On occassionyou need to stand your groundagainst yourself,against your inner carper or martyr or moper.Acknowledge the obstacles, certainly,then turn and head toward the border.You know what you are doing.They will follow. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All… Continue reading
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I Stand Mute
I stand mutein the shadow of my own meekness.Who am I?And who knows that I am? This is not humility;I have abandoned my holy orders,forgotten my ordination:to be–absolutely–me. (with thanks to Debbie Rodahaffer) Text and image © 2011 by Dirk… Continue reading
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The Tree of Secrets
The First Children,playing together in the Marvelous Garden,stop to restbeneath the laden branchesof the Tree of Secrets. What is this ripe, round, richly scented fruit? Eve,not yet knowing right from wrong,takes a sloppy bite.Adam,not yet knowing wrong from right,licks the… Continue reading
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My Heart’s Boundary
Mapping my heart's boundary,I unearth a casket of old taboos.I place it just outside the fence,a hand-written warning taped to the lid. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Core Word #9: Compassion
Let's open the valveat the bottom of every human heartand drain the sludgethat reeks of fear. Let's rinse those heartswith sacred solvent(God's sweat, Allah's tears, Buddha's laughter),then fill each heart to its gilded rimwith the champagne of compassion–crystalline, effervescent and… Continue reading