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(:56) in Longmont, Colorado 06/16/0 before jumping out of an airplane
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(2:31) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 2/16/08
Mercury Cafe show Enjoy the full YouTube video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
Mercury Cafe show Enjoy the full Internet Archive video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
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from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach
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video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
New Beginning, Firsts and the Future chapbook View or download the free PDF chapbook
New Beginning, Firsts and the Future
with “a New Life” “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, & “In Love I Abide”.
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Falling From the Sky” and “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far” from her bookRevealed”, plus her poem “Zenith of the Night Sky” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Falling From the Sky” and “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far” from her bookRevealed”, plus her poem “Zenith of the Night Sky” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersSeptember 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of cc&d’s book “Nothing Lasts” poems “a New Life”, “My First Time”, “Falling from the Sky”, and “Questioning Creativity Through the Cosmos” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersSeptember 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of cc&d’s book “Nothing Lasts” poems “a New Life”, “My First Time”, “Falling from the Sky”, and “Questioning Creativity Through the Cosmos” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Check Your Clock”, then reading her two poems “a New Life” and “Falling From the Sky” from her feature “New Beginnings, Firsts and the Futurechapbook live 1/19/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Check Your Clock”, then reading her two poems “a New Life” and “Falling From the Sky” from her feature “New Beginnings, Firsts and the Futurechapbook live 1/19/9/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Falling From the Sky

Janet Kuypers, 06/16/07 (11:27 A.M. mountain time)

I’m taking a one-way flight today

And you know, when people say they have a one-way ticket
You assume the plane
                                    is landing them somewhere
And not flying them back

But lucky me, my only way back
Is to jump out of the sky

And hope I land on my own two feet

And my flight takes off
In just a little while
And I can feel that tension knot
That knot’s rope, being pulled
By all my nerves

And like it was heartburn
I want to slam my fist into my chest
To try to make the pain go away

So I’ve spent all my life
Trying to soar so high

But I guess I have to be prepared
For coming back to earth


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