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:
Just Listen
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- Written May 2024
The birdsong breaks the silence
Hovering under an open sky
Giving a drone’s eye view
Of how the world should be.
Until aerial combatants arrive -
Disturbers of the peace
Prompting listening
To the inner voice of memory
And what brought us here,
As she finds her nest
And I am soon at rest
In the quietness
Of creative contemplation
That energises aother day.
Foothills, Palo Alto
May 2024