silence
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Your Tongue
Your tonguelike the clapper of a wind-battered bell,constantly clangs and clatters.Why the ceaseless alarm? Hush now and allowthe sufficiency of silence. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Night Prayer
I loved your still world tonight.I walked it gently.I saw cold, silent moonlight shining off the faces of polished tombstones.I passed drifts of fallen leaves resting in their hollows.I looked up through unmoving branches, bare and black against the sky.I saw a… Continue reading
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Waiting for the Mud to Settle
She sits in silence,waiting for the mud to settle,the water to clear. It takes awhilebut it happens,and at the bottom of the poolshe sees a pearl,and a small, teary-eyed monster, all out of breath,mother's cameo broach lost in '82,a broken… Continue reading
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The Widow
And now she is a widow walking into the dim parlor,pausing between their worn chairs,watching rain run down the window,listening to the unfamiliar silence,picking up the book she'd been reading,touching the top of the bookmark,sliding open the pages,finding the paragraph… Continue reading
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I Sit
Often, words are not the needed thing. Continue reading
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My Face
My face,empty at the table like a white china plate,waits for supper.From the kitchen,silence. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Temple
Imagine a temple dedicted to what we do not know, to what is beyond imagination, to the vastness beyond vastness (what you may call God). I would expect silence, because that is how I experience awe. The walls would be… Continue reading
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Christmas Greetings
"May you allow room for God to speak this holiday season." "May you draw close to God–and God draw close to you–this Christmas." My final Christmas card had been sent when I discovered these two lines in an old journal… Continue reading
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Discover Your Silence
Discover your silence. Recover God. Text and image © 2010 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading