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See YouTube video 7/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Battle at Hand, Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation), and Only an Observer at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon P.S.).

See YouTube video 7/24/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems the Battle at Hand, Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation), and Only an Observer at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation)” 11/6/16 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation)” 11/6/16 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Dilemmas in Gift Giving”, “everyday objects equal performance art” and “Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation)” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/6/17 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (Lumix).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Dilemmas in Gift Giving”, “everyday objects equal performance art” and “Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation)” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/6/17 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (Sony).

See YouTube video 8/22/17 of the Janet Kuypers show “This Just In”, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Original Snowbirds”, “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”, “erasure poem: A Poetic History”, “Just One Book”, “Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Yearning to Break Free” and “Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation)” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video 8/22/17 of the Janet Kuypers show “This Just In”, with her poems “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison”, “Original Snowbirds”, “Ultimate Connectivity: a bird in the hand”, “erasure poem: A Poetic History”, “Just One Book”, “Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Yearning to Break Free” and “Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation)” (video from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 10/7/17 show “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” @ “Expressions Welcomes Autumn!” in Austin, performing her poems “Sepia Leaves”, “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs/Bahá’í Center edit)”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “And I’m Wondering”, “Just by Holding his Hand”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, performed with the HA!Man of South Africa’s music “the Ice is Melting” and a rotating art display (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 10/7/17 show “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” @ “Expressions Welcomes Autumn!” in Austin, performing her poems “Sepia Leaves”, “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs/Bahá’í Center edit)”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “And I’m Wondering”, “Just by Holding his Hand”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa’s “the Ice is Melting”, cricket sounds in the background and a random rotating art display (Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View the 10/7/17 show poems in the free PDF file chapbook “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” containing the poems &“Sepia Leaves”, “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs/Bahá’í Center edit)”, “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, “You and Me and Your Girlfriend”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “And I’m Wondering”, “Just by Holding his Hand”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from the book “Negative Space” her haiku and short poems “coincidence?”, “translation (2014 haiku)”, “oceans”, “behind”, “out there”, “opposite”, and “addiction”, her micro prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Just by Holding His Hand”, and “Only an Observer” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from the book “Negative Space” her haiku and short poems “coincidence?”, “translation (2014 haiku)”, “oceans”, “behind”, “out there”, “opposite”, and “addiction”, her micro prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Just by Holding His Hand”, and “Only an Observer” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “April 2018 Book Release Reading” 4/4/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt magazine 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” poems “Verge on Meditation”, “Salesman”, and “Just by Holding his Hand” at the only “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” event, which she hosted during National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “April 2018 Book Release Reading” 4/4/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt magazine 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” poems “Verge on Meditation”, “Salesman”, and “Just by Holding his Hand” at the only “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” event, which she hosted during National Poetry Month (filmed with a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Edge Detection).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “April 2018 Book Release Reading” 4/4/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt magazine 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” poems “Verge on Meditation”, “Salesman”, and “Just by Holding his Hand” at the only “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” event, which she hosted during National Poetry Month (filmed with a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “April 2018 Book Release Reading” 4/4/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt magazine 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” poems “Verge on Meditation”, “Salesman”, and “Just by Holding his Hand” at the only “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” event, which she hosted during National Poetry Month (filmed with a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold filter).

See YouTube video 12/2/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “And I’m Wondering”, & “Just by Holding His Hand”, from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Still Life” at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 12/2/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “And I’m Wondering”, & “Just by Holding His Hand”, from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Still Life” at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 12/8/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Way You Tease Me”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, & “Just by Holding His Hand”, from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Still Life” at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 12/8/18 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “The Way You Tease Me”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, & “Just by Holding His Hand”, from the Scars Publications 2018 collections book “Still Life” at “Poetry Aloud” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry You in Autumn”, and “Just by Holding his Hand”, then she read her “Life and Death and everything between” show poems “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, “Only Half the Story”, and “Build Your Own Cross”, all from the new cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Sepia Leaves”, “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry you in Autumn” and “Just by Holding His Hand”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ May 2019 Book Release Reading 5/1/19, where she read her “in Autumn, Love is in the Air” poems “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Sepia Leaves”, “And I’m Wondering”, “Marry you in Autumn” and “Just by Holding His Hand”, all read from the cc&d September-December 2018 issue and chapbook collection book “This is Where I Live”, during Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just By Holding His Hand”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “There I Sit”, “And I’m Wondering”, and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary(an extreme sestina variation)” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now”, read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Just By Holding His Hand”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “There I Sit”, “And I’m Wondering”, and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now”, read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just By Holding His Hand”, “The Way You Tease Me”, “There I Sit”, “And I’m Wondering”, and “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)” from the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now”, read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation) Janet Kuypers 7/24/16 (adapted from “holding hands, a 3/17/14 variation of “holding my hand”, written 04/20/98) when we’re walking down the street in stride and our feet pump out the same rhythm and our shoulders are almost touching and our hands seem to brush up against and along each other for one brief moment in that one brief moment, our hands almost touch and he reaches over and takes my hand he slides his fingers around my hand and I feel him move along my palm to my fingers when he moves along my palm to my fingers no one knows what it feels like then when his fingers curl and hold me tight well, it feels like... pop rocks you know when it feels like pop rocks that candy is sliding down your throat after you let it explode on your tongue and it’s tingling, oh, you know that feeling and no one else is eating these pop rocks and no one knows that tingling feeling and this is my little secret and I love keeping this little secret when I feel this feeling like never before and it makes me want to laugh and cry because when I look around the room I know no one else is eating those pop rocks and no one knows the feeling when he’s holding my hand no one knows the feeling when he’s holding my hand it’s like candy and cupids and hearts and sunshine and all those generic symbols of love that never explain it just right words can never explain it just right, it’s catching your breath, falling from an airplane it’s climbing a mountain, it’s standing on a glacier, it’s following dolphins, it’s swimming with sharks it’s turning your head and seeing those fingers interlocked with yours as you’re walking in stride because then and there, walking in stride you think of those pop rocks, tingling down your throat but now this feeling hits all of your nerves because pop rocks never felt like this and now nothing has ever felt like this it’s in all of your muscles and all of your nerves and now you want to hold on for your life you now feel something you’ve never felt before all       just by holding his hand

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