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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity from Freedom” (written 8/11 on Robert G. Ingersoll’s 1833 birthday), “Just Who May Try to Stop Us” (written 8/20, on National Aviation Day), and “Just to Craft” (written 8/21, on National Poets Day) from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, and “Just to Craft” from the cc&d August 2020 book “Death Waits Outside” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Listen mp3 to the 33:37 WZRD 88.3fm Radio show, or see a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 30+ minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Just One Book”, “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Use Your Mind”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, “Ominous Day”, “Keep Looking Happy”, “Effigy”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “No One Will Forget”, “One With Wildlife”, “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in her 30+ minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Just One Book”, “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Use Your Mind”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, “Ominous Day”, “Keep Looking Happy”, “Effigy”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “No One Will Forget”, “One With Wildlife”, “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, and “The State of the Nation (2016 edit)”, recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 15-minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting summer poetry within the book, including her poems “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “foretell”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, recorded 8/9/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay via the mp3 mp3 podcast (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers in her 15-minute podcast recording for WZRD 88.3 Chicago FM Radio, reading her poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” — reflecting August event poetry within the book, including her poems “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “foretell”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Eleven and Two, plus Eight”, recorded 8/3/20 for future WZRD Radio airplay (Samsung S9 camera).
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Effigy”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Violent Endeavour” from the v300Death Waits Outside” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Opportunity from Freedom”, “Just Who May Try to Stop Us”, “Just to Craft”, “Effigy”, “Keep Looking Happy”, and “Violent Endeavour” from the v300Death Waits Outside” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (Samsung S9 camera).

Just to Craft

Janet Kuypers
8/21/19 (written on
National Poets Day)

Can it be taxing to try
                           to wax poetic...

the task is taxing, and traumatic —
spilling the ills of the downtrodden,
relaying the pain of a nation,
feeling the grievances of a people —

for all self-proclaimed poets
know they have no choice
but to immerse themselves,
to wallow in the feelings of all,
just to work, just to craft
just the right words
that everyone can relate to,
that everyone can feel the emption from...

that can change people as a whole.

This is the lifetime task
they are challenged with,
just to work, to slave
...and in this case
slave is no understatement
because they slave just to save.
They are forced in every moment
to feel the full realm of everything
that can happen to everyone,
so at the drop of a hat they wax poetic
about the joy and the pain,
because they have no choice.
They slave just to save.
Just to make people think.
Just to make a difference.

It’s a daunting task,
and no serious poet
takes this task lightly.
Anyone from Shakespeare
to Edgar Allen Poe
to Charles Bukowski
understands this,
because it is our choice
to live and die
by the written word —
as it should be.


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