Welcome to 'The duPs' - The website of Paul and Margaret du Plessis - Margaret a former Medical Social Worker, Paul a physician.
They served with The Salvation Army in Zambia, the United Kingdom, India, and their homeland of South Africa. They retired to live in Bromley, in southeast London. Margaret passed away in 2019.
Their children, Catherine and Andre, and the wider family have always meant 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 life 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:
Every Voice Matters
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- Written January 2021
Crying in the wilderness;
Not quite in tune,
Definitely out of step with the times;
Tonic solfa with musty dough
When it should be lines and spaces;
Bass when others want a tenor,
Sacred when secular's preferred.
Enriched by Zulu and Armenian,
Swiss German or Geneva's French
In a rich repertoire of song
Where to him every voice matters,
Till the final note ends in silence.
After all, this is the wilderness.
January 2021.