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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (written on Nature Photography Day) “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant” (written 6/16, the day in 1940 when a Communist government took over Lithuania), and “Learning More (2019 edit)” (edited on Father’s Day), live 6/16/19 at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (PLT56).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (written on Nature Photography Day) “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant” (written 6/16, the day in 1940 when a Communist government took over Lithuania), and “Learning More (2019 edit)” (edited on Father’s Day), live 6/16/19 at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (P2500).
video See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), and “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)(this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42), “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl” (starting ~30:02), and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (starting ~31:21), from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, plus from memory her Periodic Table bonus poem “Arsenic and Syphilis” (starting ~36:33) (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera).
video See YouTube video of “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where, throughout her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42), “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl” (starting ~30:02), and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (starting ~31:21), from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, plus from memory her Periodic Table bonus poem “Arsenic and Syphilis” (starting ~36:33) (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, and then it was given a Posterize filter).
JanetJanet Hear SoundCloud audio of the full “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”. During her interview, Janet Kuypers read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed” in both new books, but read from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” (starting ~9:40), then from her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” (starting ~21:40), “Ocean’s Call to Dive” (starting ~28:42), “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl” (starting ~30:02), and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” (starting ~31:21), from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, plus from memory her Periodic Table bonus poem “Arsenic and Syphilis” (starting ~36:33). Then she read “Escape to Peace” (starting ~39:41) and “Vase of Tulips” (started ~41:52) from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”. Later in the interview she read her poems “Elaborate Exaltation” (started ~45:51), “Listen to Life” (started ~46:18), the haiku “nature I” (started ~46:44), “after” (started ~47:12), and “quarrel” (started ~47:31), from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”.
JanetJanet Hear SoundCloud audio of all of the poem readings from “Janet Kuypers on Chicago’s WZRD Radio 9/7/19”, where Janet Kuypers read her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, our Creed”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, “Eat your Vegetables, be a Proper Girl”, “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces”, “Arsenic and Syphilis”, “Escape to Peace”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Listen to Life”, “nature I”, “after”, and “quarrel” from 2 new books.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, ““the Robot Zombie Witch Girl” revisited” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Technetium’s Inner Glow” (#43, Tc), during her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (P L 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets” read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, ““the Robot Zombie Witch Girl” revisited” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Technetium’s Inner Glow” (#43, Tc), during her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (P L T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the Down in the Dirt 6/20 book “Existential Threats” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (this video was 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 reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the Down in the Dirt 6/20 book “Existential Threats” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).
See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the v172Existential Threats” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Cesium for Certainty”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Escape to Peace”, “Sledgehammers and Cheers”, “Orange Clouds and Blood-Red Sunsets”, “Kept my Eye on You”, “Vanquished by the Sleeping Giant”, and “Feeling of False Ownership” from the v172Existential Threats section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed live and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Orange Clouds and
 Blood-Red Sunsets

Janet Kuypers
6/15/19, on Nature
Photography Day

My years of photography schooling in college
was designed to prep me for photo journalism;
catching the action for the big reported story...

with that camera as an extension of my right arm,
I’d be really at a moment’s notice to swing that
camera up to my eye when the time was right.

And I may be no Ansel Adams, recording wind
speeds and altitudes and longitudes for photos,
but with this catching the moment mentality

ingrained in my head, I stumble upon nature scenes
I now have to share with the world. It’s on impulse,
but when you see something so breath-taking

your only thought is to share it with the world.
Dormant trees laden with snow at a creek at an
overpass, reflecting the cloud-filled sky. Or orange

clouds, creating a one-of-a-kind mystery in the sky
only you can decipher. Then catch the sun through
clouds on a rainy day — or in a blood-red sunset

over lake Pontchartrain — or catch that instant
the sun peeks out, seconds after a total solar eclipse.
See the sun setting from fifty thousand feet in the air

and capture the divide between day and night from
on high. Catch bare footprint shadows in the snow.
Get on a boat to get to the water and capture

icebergs and glaciers, or all of the shards of ice, like
glass scattered in the water that make the sea look
like a crossword puzzle with pieces scattered about.

Find lone trails along mountainsides, or stop
when you see a massive field of giant sunflowers.
Don’t forget the pollenating bee you may see

on dying daisies, and go back to those intense
blue waters breaking at the shoreline. Wait,
what about that moss hanging from plantation

trees in the southern United States, that remind you
of the trees brimming with life at the Highlands,
or the bamboo forests in Puerto Rico. Because

from ice to snow, to lakes or ponds, that nature
is too so brimming with life, so journalist photographer,
stop looking for people for the action sometimes.

Nature has so much majestic, breath-taking, mind-
blowing action to share — and in an instant their
moment is gone too. And that is worth sharing.


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