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Because Things Do
Things fall apart then reassemble.Life unravels then weaves back together.The water overwhelms then recedes. This is always the pattern; we've lived it 1,000 times, survived it 1,000 times. Yet always between the disaster … Continue reading
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Carol for the Sixth Day of Christmas
Candles burn. Baby cries.Hearts return. Mother sighs. Church bells chime. Love arrives.Carols rhyme. Sadness dies. Snow flakes fly. Devils fear.Hope revives. God is here. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights… Continue reading
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What Waits Within
The blooming roselives within the bud,the blood-red tulipwithin the dormant bulb,the canopy of sheltering leaveswithin the bare branch braced against the raw winter wind. What then waitswithin you? Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Lily of the Valley
Oh, lily of the valley(a valley fraught with fears),you grow so purely fragiledrenched with the storm of tears. Your bells ring sweet and simple,hung from your towers of green,and promise of a futureof peace, as yet unseen. Oh, lily of… Continue reading
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Impossibilities
Gabriel appears to Mary,scans her heart,scares the bejesus into her.She drops the mending,the basket of eggs,the water jug,the familiar, known and comfortable.Reaching back…back…back into their shared story,this shattering, shimmering apparition speaks:"We can't do this. God can."…and Mary's heart and womb… Continue reading
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Bird Song
5:30 in the morning.Darkness still quiets the city.I open the sliding glass door,allow the in-flow of cold air… …and bird song:Somewhere nearby,on a tentatively budding branch,a robin asserts spring's certainty, then pauses. No more? Yes, more,now down the block,repeating the… Continue reading