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See YouTube video of the poem eyes, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem eyes, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of the 4/10/15 Janet Kuypers show “Love” (w/ John playing guitar) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Let Them Eat Chocolate in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200), of 6 new love poems

See YouTube video of the 4/10/15 Janet Kuypers show “Love” (w/ John playing guitar) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Let Them Eat Chocolate in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot), of 6 new love poems

Download these poems in the free chapbook “Love”, w/ poems read 4/10/15 at Poetry’s “Love Letter” show in Let Them Eat Chocolate (Chicago)

See YouTube video of Michael Lee Johnson reading 2 Janet Kuypers poems, eyes and on Witnessing the Icy Graveyard

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem eyes (w/ John playing background “music”) live 4/15/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem eyes (w/ John playing background “music”) live 4/15/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem eyes live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (video recorded with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem eyes live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (video recorded with a Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then her poem Vanishing Scars at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then her poem Vanishing Scars at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Nikon Coolpix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Eyes” from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry book show “a year long Journey” @ the Georgetown Poetry Festival 11/3/18 (w/ a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Eyes” from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry show book “a year long Journey” @ the Georgetown Poetry Festival 11/3/18 (w/ a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video, In honor of her poetry published in issues of “The Enigmatist” and “Blue Hole”, of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 “Blue Hole” poem “Eternal Never Ending Now” ; (read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”), her 2016 “The Enigmatist” poem (from) “the Burning” (appearing in her Texas Nafas Poetry chapbook “Public Access Poetry” and read from the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”), and for her 2018 “The Enigmatist” poem “Eyes”, her expanded 2015 poem “Eyes” (read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”), live 1/12/20 at Austin’s “Poetry at Parsons” reading (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video, In honor of her poetry published in issues of “The Enigmatist” and “Blue Hole”, of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 “Blue Hole” poem “Eternal Never Ending Now” ; (read from her 2019 poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”), her 2016 “The Enigmatist” poem (from) “the Burning” (appearing in her Texas Nafas Poetry chapbook “Public Access Poetry” and read from the Scars Publications 7-12 2019 cc&d expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris”), and for her 2018 “The Enigmatist” poem “Eyes”, her expanded 2015 poem “Eyes” (read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”), live 1/12/20 at Austin’s “Poetry at Parsons” reading (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

eyes Janet Kuypers started 4/4/15, finished 4/6/15 Growing up, boys didn’t like me, kids made fun of me. I was raised to think that I was a plain girl, easily overlooked. I’d look at my eyes, the same eyes my dad thought made me always look sad, and wanted to think that the song “Brown Eyed Girl” could have been about me. How silly of me. I should know better. And maybe that is why I’ve always loved blue eyes. Eyes not like mine. # The eye is a fascinating thing, it’s beautiful to study, especially yours... If I were a biologist, I’d take high-res photos of that eye of yours, maybe magnify it as large as I could, so I could study it like a slide under a microscope. I would search for meaning in those mesmerizing patches and shades of that unique blue. # They say science can explain all, so maybe it can explain why I’m so in love with your eyes, or why I’m so in love with you. # Eyes are our windows to the outside world, but they’re also portals inward, giving us mere mortals fleeting glimpses to who you are inside. I think our colored irises floating on an ocean of white, punctuated with a pupil were designed that way so we could follow each other’s gazes closely. I’m watching you. You probably see that. I hope you’ll watch me too. Because scientists have studied the crypts, pigment dots and furrows of the eye, and scientists are now figuring out that the eye really is the window to the soul. So, maybe I was on the right track by loving your eyes, and never wanting to lose sight of them again.

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