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| If you are looking for a particular poem but don’t know when it was written in, just do a search for the title of the poem to find it (and you’ll also then know when it was written). |
| Copyright © 1979 through 2017 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission. |
 1980 Under the Sea |
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1985 a smile on my face all my problems disappear An Innocent Glance do you know good bye have a friend in me i see more Nothing Colorful In My Sight the place Weeping Willow |
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1990 All Men Have Secrets all men have secrets in Dutch egg drop soup (or a response to a love letter) High Roller I Just Waited I Listen Tall Man The Dream the room of the rape the second death There I Sit victim - a song why - a part of a song |
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1991 brewing the coffee and remembering summer father’s tears How to do the Impossible how to scramble an egg i look at the letters again I Wanted Pain translation of I Wanted Pain in Dutch - “Ik verlangde naar pijn” Motorcycle Photograph, Nineteenth Century 2012 translation of Photograph, Nineteenth Century - in Slovak: fotografia, devätnáste storočie” republican the cycle the Martyr and the Saint translation of the Martyr and the Saint in Dutch - “de martelaar en de heilige” what you could make me do |
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1992 A Match “addict.” confident women David Medication perversion Right There, By Your Heart Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6) Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 and 6) in Slovak: Časť básne Práve Tam, pri Tvojom srdci Verses 2 and 6 of this poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize sheri the Burning 2012 translation of the Burning - in Slovak: “Horenie” translation of the Burning in Dutch - “het verbranden” This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize See a flash film of the Burning designed by Bill Dorris see the Burning at ChicagoPoetry.com see the burning as an animated image your love, dear man, is as lovely to me |
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1993 children, churches and daddies This poem was nominated in the cc&d 2014 release sea drift for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize children, churches and daddies - in Dutch: kinderen, kerken en vaders This poem translation was nominated in the cc&d 2014 release idols for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize Coquinas Farmer In The Air one summer oriental Slate and Marrow the flashback the muse, the messiah the page The Fourteenth Wedding Lost White Knuckled 2012 translation of White Knuckled - in Slovak: “biele hánky” This poem (in both languages) was nominated in the Rape, Sexism, Life & Death 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize |
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1994 A Child In The Park a stand-off acknowledge backbone family act Childhood Memories one Childhood Memories two Childhood Memories three Childhood Memories four Childhood Memories five Childhood Memories six Childhood Memories seven Christmas Eve conversations one (a day of grieving) conversations two (a day of grieving) conversations three (a day of grieving) conversations four (a day of grieving) conversations five (a day of grieving) conversations six (a day of grieving) conversations seven (a day of grieving) conversations eight (a day of grieving) Coslow’s death decorating the lockers Dive Door Frame Forward God Eyes He Told Me His Dreams one He Told Me His Dreams two He Told Me His Dreams three He Told Me His Dreams four He Told Me His Dreams five He Told Me His Dreams six He Told Me His Dreams seven He Told Me His Dreams eight He Told Me His Dreams nine hole in the heart Ice Cream ikebana from the new orleans poems - Jackson Square/Bourbon Street James Johnathan J’reviens Knife Last Before Extinction Mask motions on the planet My Father, Shooting an Animal my love for you will stay the same - a song Orion Other Horizons Our Anniversary Paper Paranoia poam - a conversation with jimbo breen Poam - a Militant Man with Schizophrenia Private Lives One Private Lives Two raking leaves Rape Education 1 Rape Education 2 Rape Education 3 ring room senses She Told Me Her Dreams one She Told Me Her Dreams two She Told Me Her Dreams three She Told Me Her Dreams four She Told Me Her Dreams five She Told Me Her Dreams six Signs of the Times silence st. anthony’s medallion from the new orleans poems - The Bridge To New Orleans transcribing dreams one transcribing dreams two transcribing dreams three twin Two Years Understand walking home from school What We Need In Life - a song one of six poems about one person — Waiting For You one of six poems about one person — Walking With You one of six poems about one person — Wanting You one of six poems about one person — Watching You one of six poems about one person — With You one of six poems about one person — Without You |
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1996 A Retired Policeman Talks About the Suicides He’s Seen. Anyone Good Enough Before I Learned Better Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News Bring Her Back Burn Through Me Can’t Answer That One catching a muscovy chances one - yes, it’s yes chances two - here i am from the poems about mom - changing the locks couldn’t take it home Desire emergency room stories false suicide golfing with George Eastman Headache hiding vices from the poems about mom - joe putz-a-vucki john knew all along Knowing Kevorkian Make People Think Marilyn Monroe’s sex life Motorcycle (1996 edit) Odd How Things Turn Out That Way. On an Airplane With a Frequent Flyer Pop a Pill probably not Realistic Dreams Russians At A Garage Sale the last time the moon The One At Mardi Gras The Things Warren Says this may sound (edited) this you don’t hate. trust Warren Stories was immune from the poems about mom - watching my father die water on the street |
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1998 The First Half of the Year almost the best part being god Burning Building carpet Death is a Dog Death Takes Many Forms. Fantastic Car Crash Holding My Hand I Dreamt About You Last Night I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well Isn’t It Amazing Let the War Begin Looking For A Worthy Adversary Mixing Metaphors panther Present and Past written with Chad Maier - springtime the kitchen Timing Is Everything True Happiness in the New Millennium weren’t even married What Women Want Will Be Just Fine you won’t miss her |
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2002 Freedom Just Past The Fence |
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2003 Gossip 1 Gossip 2 Gossip 3 Joy Ten Minutes Two Not Mute poems (in Haiku form) Venture to the Unknown |
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2007 poetry Cast in Stone This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize Dreams 01/28/07 (seeing mom) Dreams 09/07/07 Dreams 09/08/07 Ending a Relationship (in haiku form) Falling From the Sky I’m Sure We Killed It Seven and Seven, plus eighteen Well, I Didn’t Think About It |
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2008 poetry (and you could hold me) Canned Condolences Couldn’t Reach It Dreams 08/24/08 Escape Evil Floats From Words to Wars Going Nowhere I Think About These Things Dreams 12/22/08: the Indescribable Infant is it a fish? is it an animal? is it human? Money Became an Abstract Now You’re Nothing To Me Spent the Randomness of Everything Thirteen Seconds Where Does The Love Go Why I Didn’t See God Wondering Why |
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2013 poetry |
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2014 poetry |
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2015 poetry |
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2016 poetry |
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2017 poetry |
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2018 poetry |
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2019 poetry |
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2020 Communication (2020 edit) Death takes many forms. (Concrete Mist edition) dimensional shift Do the Dead Still Live Española Lore Everything Was Alive And Dying (Oz Hardwick edit) Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams 2/29/20) Exposed and Abandoned (dreams 3/24/20) found pandemic haiku from Other Souls I never took a life until I took my own, part II, “the martyr” jar for my beating heart Knowing that Instant Love, Love, Love, Love, Love (dreams 12/14/20) One Lonesome Whale Our Society, Glossed Over Phobos Fears his Future Surmising the Semblance (dreams 4/14/20) Too Far (2020 edit) Until I Choose Life Vacant Spaces (dreams 4/10/20) Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan You Have No Idea Twitter-length Periodic Table poems:Boron nitride stretching poem on Facebook and TwitterElementary, the Coronavirus poem on Facebook and Twitter Iron Leaking out of Earth poem on Facebook and Twitter Lithium to Calm my Nerves Manganese can cure us all poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Strontium and 3-D time poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, & Tumblr Strontium shows Schrödinger’s cat poem on Facebook and Twitter Thorium smoothing the moon poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr |
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2021 Every Heartbeat Everyone’s Afraid from In the Air kitsch when “woke” Objectifiable 2021 Oddly Enough, A Non-Sentient Phone and a Swath of Hair (dreams 12/4/21) On the Surface on the way to a NOLA funeral Out Toward the Horizon Quieting Anechoic Chamber Uncontrollable Car (dreams 3/23/21) Universe’s Lost Love Viruses: Entirely Human After All your body from the tub (dreams 3/30/21) Twitter-length Periodic Table poems:Calcium can be good for the o-zone too Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TumblrCalcium: voltage to the brain Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Californium-252: communication, thanks to nuclear Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Cerium-141: “one of the more prolific fission products of the atom bomb” Twitter-length Periodic Table poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Cerium-141, slowly seeping in Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Cerium can soothe the soul Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Chlorine defines dioxins Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Curium’s radioactive glitter Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Deuterium: How Sweet It Is Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Dysprosium may be mined in the midwest Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Dysprosium-162; from superfluid to supersolid Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Einsteinium’s Mysteries poem on Facebook and Twitter Europium in Euros Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Francium, of the feline persuasion Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Gadolinium, Save us from Our Mistakes Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Gold for the foolish at heart Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Hafnium attacks Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Helium rain is no laughing matter Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Holmium, only one atom Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Lead the way Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Magnesium becomes a thermal blanket Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Mercury’s volcanic, icy re-release Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Neodymium magnets up your nose Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Neodymium saved from e-waste Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Nitrogen with an icy heart Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Nobelium is fought for in transfermium wars Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Oganesson, bending time inside Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Oxygen makes superionic ice Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Phosphine for Venus: virility vs. volcanism Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Plutonium: Badder than the Fat Man Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Polonium: choose your fate, cancer or radiation Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Polonium-210, with sparks flying Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Praseodymium: toxic if you breathe it... Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Praseodymium: up close and personal Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Promethium: hail to the orange, hail to the blue Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Rhenium: the little element that could Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Rubidium leads the way to a new state Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Rutherfordium, blinked out of existence Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Samarium made the music play Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Silver nitrate displaying our brain Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Tantalum macroscopically entangles Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Tennessine is what I get... Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Terbium is out of this world Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Terbium-161 is just the right number Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Uranium: Permafrost Saves poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Would you like some Cesium with your honey? Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Xenon discovers dark energy? Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr |
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2022 Eye now Blotchy and Gray (dreams 2/16/22) Finally Treated Fairly Information Carries Weight No One Reports for Women Only If She Had a Choice Only Recourse Outside of the Door (dreams 5/27/22) Revelation One: One-Four Revelation One: Five-Eight Revelation One: Eleven Ukraine, Rights, Freedom, and Peace Ultimately, the goddamn particle Uniqueness Finds Love poems written for C Ra McGuirt: Elixirs of the gods Expression for Loss Gods want their life to end Justice Only Souls who have Tried Our Ships Would No Longer Cross Tag Team Poets Those Were the Days of Our Lives (dreams 8/12/22) poems after the overturning of Roe v. Wade: After All We’ve Accomplished Elevating the Fetus Goes Against Religion Eliminate All Rapists Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights Evidence as Testament Evil of What They’ve Done Expecting Rights after Losing Rights Fear for Their Safety Flags at Half-Mast It Really Is All About Choice Jihad Against Free Choice Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights Just Checking my Religions Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights Key, you see Mary’s Perspective Oh No — is Art not Safe from Big Brother? Old Enough to Choose On a Sunday after a Sermon Once and Future Rights Once You’ve Made Up Your Mind Only Considering Women’s Rights Only Pose What I Know Oppression: the Ultimate Killer Overturning Against All Queueing as Defeatists, But Fighting for Freedom Quickly Washing Away Women’s Rights Unborn Fetus does not equal Human Life Unconstitutionality Unless it’s about suppressing life Use Any Angle Using the Nazi Approach to Women’s Rights Vote Changing: the System’s Solution X and Y, and what’s Seizing the Sexes X-ing out lives X is for Pope Innocent X, not Women Your Government’s Keeping Tabs Poetry with Language Translations Against My Will (2022) in Lithuanian: Prieš Mano valią Diane Talking About Her Trip To Mexico City (the poem translated into Spanish) Oriental (the poem translated into Chinese) 
Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere (the poem translated into Hindi)  Twitter-length Periodic Table poems: Actinium & the next-gen for cancer Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Astatine’s rarity may save us from cancer Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Berkelium can recycle radioactivity Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Bismuth in an ocean of one Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Bohrium is the secret Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Californium’s a double-edged sword Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Copernicium makes the worlds go ‘round Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Darmstadtium: what then Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Dubnium’s a fight to the finish Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Erbium and REEs from fly ash Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Fermium— bad and good? Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Flerovium, doubly magic? Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Hassium: a beautiful day Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Hydrogen laced with π Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Iridium blankets the earth Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Lawrencium: were we wrong? Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Livermorium, vanishing in our grasp Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Lutetium and the crude truth Twitter-length poem on Facebook & video post, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Lutetium-177: oh, what a relief it is Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Mendelevium, one atom at a time Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Moscovium and aliens: the truth isn’t out there Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Neptunium, just in time Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Nihonium: a tanka / waka Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Nobelium: war or peace Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Osmium when capitalism prevails Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Platinum, stronger than love? Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Plutonium (pee-eew) Twitter-length poem on Facebook and Twitter Protactinium, and voilà... rocks? Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Radon: just a little’s enough Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Roentgenium, too scarce to waste Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Seaborgium only lasts Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Sodium turns into quantum tornadoes Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Thallium’s a real killer Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Thulium saves the day for some cancers Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Tungsten out from under your thumb Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Ytterbium, who knew Twitter-length poem on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
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