Welcome to 'The duPs' - The website of Paul and Margaret du Plessis.
They are Salvation Army officers
Margaret is a former Medical Social Worker, Paul a physician.
They have served in Zambia, the United Kingdom, India, and their homeland of South Africa. Now, in retirement, they live in Bromley, in southeast London.
Their children, Catherine and Andre, and the wider family mean a lot to them. Placing Paul’s poems and other information on a website has been a family request for some years. Grandson, David, took on the project and became the website architect.
Please enjoy reading Paul's poems which reflect something of their faith and experiences.
Margaret has researched the life of Louisa Mary Tucker, the first wife of pioneer Indian missionary, Frederick Tucker.
Please use the menu on the left and the search function in the top right to navigate through the site.
Here is Paul's most recent poem:
Anticipation
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- Written December 2017
And the trees by the rivers of water
Rock at the roots as the world shakes
Under uncertainties, extending
From Pyongyang to Harare and beyond,
While the clouds race across the skies
Swept on, covering sun, moon and stars
That should shed a radiance, but don't.
While a baby lies in a manger
With animals of the night queuing
Alongside ox and ass, for a peep,
Just wishing he'd settle the storm.
But his time has not yet come
So we, and they, wait patiently,
Believing one day he will say:
'Peace be still' - and it will happen.
December 2017