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:

Just Waiting

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Written November 2018
The chlorophyll retreats, its work is done,
Its own life given offering life to others,
Revealing pigments dormant from the beginning,
Shining through the cuticle of the leaf,
Exposing shades of autumn we admire
Yet know they too will fade and disappear 
As the dislocated leaf flutters down,
Falling gently with the beauty of the years.

But future hopes waken with prospects of spring;
Another year of waiting for it to happen,
Expecting a solemn promise to come true;
The start of a life we thought that wasn't there
But celebrated now in the discoveries of birth
Of someone who comes to surprise the world with joy.

November 2018


Photo: Sheffield Park,