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Trying to Write
1.I apologize to my battered muse,once again elbowed asideby in-crowding concerns,loud and demanding,like rich American touristsinvading by the busloada Mexican villageright at siesta. She shrinks and retreats. 2.My mind is too noisy and busyfor the careful, considered crafting of words,which,… Continue reading
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“You Are What You Love”
Rumi suggests,"You are what you love."What then are you? I am silence.I am friends.I am a photograph revealing the unexpected.I am a poem provoking discovery.I am a walk in the woods.I am music.I am wonder.I am God. Text… Continue reading
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Love Song
When you are this closeall is a blur– eyes cannot focus, mind cannot focus, heart cannot focus. No lens can correct this vision. I blindly stumblethrough the gracious haze of your love. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.… Continue reading
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A Poem
A poem:why five wordswhen three suffice? The lone, stripped pine,silhouetted against the otherwise uninterrupted horizon,carries more of methan a forest of language and imagery. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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A Dozen Words
Give me a dozen words,and I shall give you a poem. Give me a dozen words,and you have given me a poem. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Awake
Soul slap.Spirit snap.Mind whack.And you're awake. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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The Lord’s Prayer, Stanza 3
We yearn for your vision of wholenessto become our reality.Erase our pretended perimetersbetween this life and the next. We embrace the creation of Paradise–here, now–as our Greatest Commission. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Remembering and Discovering at the Same Time
I am an admirer of the poet David Whyte. Even when David speaks about poetry, it is poetry. Listen to some of the ways he describes the art of the poem: remembering and discovering at the same time a conversation… Continue reading
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Writing a Poem
My aim?To authentically capturea chipped fragmentof human experience. It may not be my experience,and it may not be your experience,but when I succeed,the words echo inside us both,as if they may–in another life, time, place–be ours. Then it is a… Continue reading
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Sunshine and Rain
bright, clear days call me outward to run to relate to create cold, rainy days call me inward to stillness to awareness to accountability I am given sunny, celebratory daysand I am given gray, growing days I need both Text and image © 2010 by Dirk deVries. All… Continue reading