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See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Opportunity to Share Globally”, and “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, at the ending of the first “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 6/2/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Opportunity to Share Globally”, and “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, at the ending of the first “Poetic License” open mic she hosted at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” 6/2/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Volumes in Flames while the Soul Flourishes” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, my poem “Amber Beads” from the Scars Publications 2019 reprint of the cc&d magazine v184 May 2008 issue-book “That was the Time”, and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Volumes in Flames while the Soul Flourishes” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, my poem “Amber Beads” from the Scars Publications 2019 reprint of the cc&d magazine v184 May 2008 issue-book “That was the Time”, and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Palladium, Ouro Podre” (#46, Pd), and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, before singing an altered chorus of her song “In Love I Abide” as the ending to her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (PL2500, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Palladium, Ouro Podre” (#46, Pd), and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, before singing an altered chorus of her song “In Love I Abide” as the ending to her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (PL T56, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video in 2 parts on 9/28/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry at the Poetry Aloud open mic. In part 1, she read her poem “Such a Surreal Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (#45, Rh), then her poem "“Feeling of False Ownership” for Juneteenth from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her poem “Just the Right Words” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#44, Ru), then her poem “Know When to Play it Safe” for National Insurance Awareness Day from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the last poem of the book, all to a live audience at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video in 2 parts on 9/28/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry at the Poetry Aloud open mic. In part 1, she read her poem “Such a Surreal Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Rhodium’s Flava Flav” (#45, Rh), then her poem "“Feeling of False Ownership” for Juneteenth from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. In part 2, she read her poem “Just the Right Words” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” then her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Ruthenium for Free” (#44, Ru), then her poem “Know When to Play it Safe” for National Insurance Awareness Day from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as the last poem of the book, all to a live audience at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “Filed under Fiction” from the cc&d June 2020 27-year anniversary book “Ticket to Paradise” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “Filed under Fiction” from the cc&d June 2020 27-year anniversary book “Ticket to Paradise” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “filed under fiction” from the v298 “Ticket to Paradise” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel”, “Unrestrained Opportunity, and Fighting for Freedom”, “Unprovable Stories”, “Others Kill For Us”, and “filed under fiction” from the v298 “Ticket to Paradise” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel Janet Kuypers 6/1/19 I know that when I first saw my one true love across a crowded room, the other two hundred people melted away, and all I could see was him. And we stumbled and fumbled when we first spoke to each other, but it didn’t take long for him to send signals to clear everyone away so that it was all only about him, with me. He would make special all our days together, we would find hideaways at night from the tops of buildings to the sewers, places I would never go unless it was with him — and I would have gone to the bottom of the earth and back if it meant we could have stayed together, but before I knew it, he was suddenly gone. And for all of these decades since he left my world, I have only been able to live in the shadow of what we had together. Yes, I may wallow, but I hypnotize people still with the songs I sung for him; I sing with the heart of one who once felt such love it so overflowed, it was such an unbounded love that just hearing those songs again make women cry. There was such a surreal, such an ephemeral feel to us that I have no choice but to live in those moments we shared together — for although our time was brief, it was the only time I would ever want, and I will cherish it always.

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