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:
Creation
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- Written February 2024
Raindrops splashed one after another,
Guided by winds of change breezing
Up this way, down another into a swirl
Enabling discovery of something new
As beauty emerges from the depths of darkness,
While the brush tames it into structure and form.
No chance encounter or accidental mess,
But a creator working behind, in front, or in it all,
Until he transfers what he has made,
Travelling miles per nanosecond into a hazy past,
The shaft of light breaking up spectrally,
Synthesising the image to become our own,
Embedded and stored as another memory.
On watching Colin Brown demonstrating his style of painting to Chislehurst Artists.
February 2024