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video See YouTube video 10/16/16 of Janet Kuypers in her show “Ultimate Connectivity” at the Awesmic City Expo preview in Austin performing her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war”, “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature”, “Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free”, and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (with poetry that appears in the “Ultimate Connectivity” chapbook, this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video 10/16/16 of Janet Kuypers in her show “Ultimate Connectivity” at the Awesmic City Expo preview in Austin performing her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war”, “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature”, “Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free”, and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (with poetry in the “Ultimate Connectivity” chapbook, this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
Ultimate Connectivity chapbook Ultimate Connectivity show Get the free PDF file chapbook
Ultimate Connectivity
containing all the poems from the show, in order: “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war”, “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, Ultimate Connectivity showUltimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature”, “Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free”, and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 connectivity poems “Irony” and “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” 10/22/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Sony).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 connectivity poems “Irony” and “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” 10/22/16 at “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (Cps).
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See YouTube video from 3/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” and “Killing the Survivor Bug” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Canon psSX60).
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See YouTube video from 3/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” and “Killing the Survivor Bug” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Canon psSX700).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2017 Book Release Reading 5/3/17 of cc&d’s book “the New World” of performance art poetry in Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books, including her “Ultimate Connectivity” poems “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war”, “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free”, “Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature”, and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2017 Book Release Reading 5/3/17 of cc&d’s book “the New World” of performance art poetry in Austin’s Community Poetry at Half Price Books, including her “Ultimate Connectivity” poems “Ultimate Connectivity: trying to separate peace from war”, “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: disconnect to reconnect”, “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free”, “Ultimate Connectivity: getting naked with nature”, and “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” and “Zenith of the Night Sky” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” 8/23/17 at Kenosha (WI) Beach (video filmed from a Sony camera, with intro in a Hue Cycling filter and reading in a Posterize filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: aches and pains”, “Ultimate Connectivity: how coffee can be relaxing”, “Ultimate Connectivity: swimming with the fishes”, “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” and “Zenith of the Night Sky” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” 8/23/17 at Kenosha (WI) Beach (from a Sony camera).

Ultimate Connectivity:
forgetting fear and feeling free

Janet Kuypers
10/9/16

Standing in the water
maybe twenty meters from the shoreline
I saw one Sea Lion facing off
with another Sea Lion on the beach.
In an effort to say
that they were the beach master,
one started to chase
the other into the water,
to kick them off their domain.
Now, a Sea Lion
can get up to seven feet long,
and when one male
started chasing the other
into the water,
these giant animals
were barreling straight toward me.

But no, I wasn’t scared,
they weren’t after me,
so I stood perfectly still
as one splashed past me to my left,
and the other splashed past me to my right.
I think a few people
at the beach were scared for me,
but I was fine,
and went into the water
and swam toward
the row of sleeping
white tipped sharks
along the ocean floor.
I counted more than two dozen,
and was stunned how perfectly
these sharks remain so straight
in a row when they slept.
So after seeing the sea,
I swam back to shore
and turned my eye to the sky.
The Frigate birds
would swarm us humans
hoping for leftover food,
but I photographed flying finches,
and watched Nasca birds,
both male and female,
keeping their eggs warm
before they would hatch.
It’s nice to see
when looking at creatures
not like you and me,
that we can see
that they may not be
as scary as can be,
but, like you and me,
they are just living to be free.
And when you look closely,
that is
really nice
to see.


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