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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 4/10/13 at The Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (with the HA!Man of South Africa background 2011 Hotel music, from “All Fall Down”) from her Periodic Table mini-feature “Beyond what we See” (Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago with this poem, with the HA!Man of South Africa 2011 Hotel music “All Fall Down” in the background (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers Periodic Table mini feature 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, with the HA!Man of South Africa 2011 Hotel music in the background, of “All Fall Down” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 4/10/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, starting and ending w/ her poetry mini features, with this poem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Iron in my Eyes” 4/18/13 in her “In Homage” show for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago (Canon camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Iron in my Eyes” 4/18/13 in her “In Homage” show for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago (Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Kuypers in her feature “In Homage” 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago, w/ her poems “Tin”, “Iron in my Eyes” and “Molybdenum” (video from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony, Edge Detection filter), which includes this poem.

See YouTube video of Kuypers in her feature “In Homage” 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar in Chicago, w/ her poems “Tin”, “Iron in my Eyes” and “Molybdenum” (video from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry in the feature 4/18/13 for “The Return of Joe Roarty” at the Loft at Fizz Bar (Sony, Watercolor filter), which includes this poem.

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Iron in my Eyes and Copper i../n the 3rd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (this video was filmed w/ a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Iron in my Eyes and Copper in the 3rd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (this video was filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Manganese” and “Cadmium” from her “Mega Reading” poetry feature 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago, then her poem “Iron in my Eyes” from her “In Homage” feature reading, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Manganese” and “Cadmium” from her “Mega Reading” poetry feature 4/13/13 at the Art Colony in Chicago, then her poem “Iron in my Eyes” from her “In Homage” feature reading, all read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge” 1/19/19 at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Iron” and “Iron in my eyes” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) and her poems “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Iron” and “Iron in my eyes” from the v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) and her poems “Iron, Filtered In”, “Iron Leaking out of Earth”, and “Iron Bloodied Eyelids” from the a href="http://scars.tv/dirt/dirt201nov22/Reaching_for_the_Stars" target="new">v101 11/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Reaching for the Stars” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 9-12/22 issue collection book “The Paths Less Traveled” poems “Iron in my Eyes” (+ also showing its online image for the poem that also appears in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Star Trek, Star Wars and Storm Troopers”, and “Outer Space and the Sound of Silence” to close her “Poetic License 3/5/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This video was also released as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Iron in my Eyes Janet Kuypers bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series (#026, Fe) (stemming from “ You’ve Killed Me”, written 10/25/11) 4/1/13 You think I was joking. You think I wanted this to happen. But this is what it boils down to. I can no longer respond. After all I’ve been through, I’d think you’d understand. Come to me. I dare you. Open my eyelid. Shine a light right into my eye. See if I respond. I even heard that someone said I looked so pretty in my hospital bed here, wearing nice eye shadow. I know I’m a dark girl, but they had to be informed that that wasn’t eye shadow, and that I had two black eyes. You see, that’s how the doctors know I have a brain injury. When the blood seeps out from around my brain, it collects only in my eyelids. Iron gives color to blood, and coming through from under my skin, my blood-filled Iron-rich eyelids must have been a pleasant mauve hue. You think I’ve got an Iron will, and I do. But at moments like these I wonder if I have cried Iron, leaving it in my eyelids for you to see. They say your eyes are windows to your soul. And mine have been darkened. Is it by you, is it by the world, is it by the hand I was dealt. Is it all fate. All I know is that mine have been darkened. Even if it is by Iron.

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