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See YouTube video live at the Cafe in Chicago 09/22/09

See YouTube video live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13

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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading All I Can Capture and Momento Mori live at Waiting4the Bus at Jak’s Tap in Chicago 3/4/13 (these videos were posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Floating Away with the Tide”, “Faith Comes Only”, “How You Know When You’re the Wrong Height”, “Our Couple in Love”, “Exhaling”, “Menu Poem”, “Translation”, “More Believable That Way”, and “All I Can Capture” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

All I Can Capture 09/17/09 I’ve read the New Testament tried to plough through the Old I would read my sister’s prayer book at night, in bed, just before sleep because if you do it then, just before you’re drifting to sleep maybe that’s when He’ll sneak in to catch you so this is what I was supposed to believe so I read and wait for God’s Hand to come down and take me I waited for the metaphysical lightening bolt but night after night I would still turn off the light and sleep with only me to guide me ### I decided to separate myself from the world placing a camera between us to look through my viewfinder and capture everything create nice glossy prints I’d look for God in the refracted light coming down from the broken stained glass windows                  delineated with lines of lead from the desanctified church but I should know better to look for God in a desanctified church like he would go there pulling the camera to my eye I would photograph the giant mural of Jesus stand before the looming church organ tap a few keys listen for the reverberation before walking away then look for diving majesty in the mountains try to climb one of the Alps through the snow in my sandals photograph the Tetons from my driver’s seat in my car but all I was doing is looking for God in plate tectonic shifts but I look anyway and couldn’t find Him as I look into the chasms of the Grand Canyon even in Bryce and the Arches take pictures hope for something more divine than nature’s beauty to come to me from deep down below I’ll even walk down the Canyon if He won’t come up to me I’ll go to Him if He’s hiding you want me to meet you half way? fine. I’ll even look up to the sky photograph the clouds, the moon but even the moon is slipping away as its orbit form Earth pulls it away from me an inch and a half every year even the heavens are getting fartherand farther away from me so I’ve gone toward the Arctic Circle photographed the dancing, prancing majestic beauty of the Aurora Borealis stood bundled, shivering from the frigid Alaska air but I know better geomagnetic aberrations are beautiful but not Godly I’ve even photographed Michael Jordan playing basketball or George Michael singing on stage but whenever I’ve seen pop stars and sports icons thank God for their successes I never catch Him on film all I can capture is human talent and ability I’ve looked to the majesty of nature I’ve looked to the majesty of man I’ve taken my camera pointed shot tried to catch Him tried to get a glimpse of God a shadow even an illusion but I couldn’t even find that Copyright © 2009 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.