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See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty and Forty-One” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Threshold filter).

See this YouTube video (posted 4/20/22, a Wednesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty and Forty-One” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden” when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 4/20/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 4/19/22, a Tuesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty and Forty-One” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden” when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 4/19/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Thirty-Seven”, “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three”, “Genesis Forty-Five”, and “Genesis Forty-Nine” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Thirty-Seven”, “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three”, “Genesis Forty-Five”, and “Genesis Forty-Nine” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Twenty-Two”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “Genesis Thirty-Seven”, “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, and “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers 2023 poetry book “Testament” outside at the remains of the pool of the Branch Davidian compound near the 30-year anniversary of the Waco siege for the 2023 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). You can also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. You can also enjoy this as a Facebook video filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Genesis Forty and Forty-One Janet Kuypers 4/16/19 You may say I’m a dreamer, but my dreams were signs to me that I was meant for a much better life than this. My family did not believe me, I think they wanted to kill me, but they sold me to slaves who left me imprisoned for years. When others in the kingdom were imprisoned, where I was left bound, I would hear them talk about their dreams — this is when it came to me, to let them know that I could interpret their dreams for them. So each of them would share their dreams with me, and oh, the stories I would tell them, and oh, the web I would weave. They all loved my interpretations, they saw that they were good, so I asked them, when you leave here, please put in a good word for me, help me out of this place. And of course, they got out, and for course, they forgot me, never mentioned a word of me or even my good interpretations. So I waited, and lo and behold, I waited two years until I heard that the Pharaoh himself dreamed, over and over again, and he was lost, not knowing what these dreams meant, that all related to seven (seven things devouring seven things, seven people, seven everything. So the Pharaoh went to his baker, the man who was once in prison telling his dreams to me, and the Pharaoh went on to him about his dreams. It was then the man remembered me, the servant who was trapped, but who interpreted his dreams. And this is why the pharaoh came to me, he told me all his dreams that all related to eating and seven, and I interpreted them into what will happen in his seven years of power, and what will happen, both the good and the bad, and how to prepare for everything. And the Pharaoh was so pleased with me, that he said I should rule over all of Egypt, he draped me in fine linen and gave me his ring. And I ruled with the Pharaoh for those seven years and more; we saved the land from famine as my wife bore me wonderful children. You may say I’m a dreamer. But the difference is that I know just what to do with those dreams, and that’s what make the difference.

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