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Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting4the Bus open mike 4/2/12

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 3/4/17 poetry show “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin reading her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” with video for the music, &s accompanying bird sounds (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 3/4/17 poetry show “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin reading her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” with video for the music, &s accompanying bird sounds (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook Exploring Spring of her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” performed in her 3/4/17 show.

See YouTube video (P L 2500) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Us, Actually Touching” and “Springtime”, and her micro-prose “Fox in the Snow” live 6/9/18 at “Poetry Aloud”.

See YouTube video (P L T56) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Us, Actually Touching” and “Springtime”, and her micro-prose “Fox in the Snow” live 6/9/18 at “Poetry Aloud”.

springtime (with c.m.) i feel the cool breeze as the condensation of night falls on my lips as the days grow longer and i feel the excitement of your eternal kiss my senses are heightened. is it this night? is it your touch? is it your voice that shouts reason in the face of love for a question of lust by the tree on the hill? i know what follows springtime; the heat of summer, the cooling of fall, the desolation of winter. is this forbidden isolation all that is left amidst the terror of loss? does the tulip get tired of dying when the seasons change? are we meant to die too? is this meant to die too? the changing tides of reason forbid us to see the true path of destiny. we are blindfolded by what we think is truth, and follow our own path to destruction. if things don’t grow, they die. this is the lesson we learn as children, this is the lesson of the daffodils and the lillies of the valley and the jonquils. and so it is with you and i. the true path of learning comes after death, when you and i are together again. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.