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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the Bridge to New Orleans” originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “March Forth” and “Quickly Judged”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “the Bridge to New Orleans” originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “March Forth” and “Quickly Judged”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypers #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Quickly Judged” from the cc&d 2/21 v306 book “More Softly than the Thunder”at the end of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Quickly Judged” from the cc&d 2/21 v306 book “More Softly than the Thunder”at the end of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas”, “Equality Manifesto”, and “Quickly Judged” from the “More Softly than the Thunder” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side”, read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram
video See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas”, “Equality Manifesto”, and “Quickly Judged” from the “More Softly than the Thunder” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side” read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

Quickly Judged

Janet Kuypers
2/1/19

You say you see the writing on the wall.
But read between the lines, because
when I make my mark, I give meaning
to the spaces themselves, and sometimes,
sometimes I scribble more in those tiny
spaces that you cannot see from afar.

Even when you take my page, you read,
and you think you’ve got me figured out.
But how wrong you are, when you
just glance at lines of text on ruled paper.
You should know that I write between
the lines. I even scribble on the margins.

You thought I was that simple, that basic,
that I could be so quickly judged. But
you only glance at the writing of my life,
and as I said, you never read between
the lines to see the true me, while the
things I write can even jump off the page.

You say you see the writing on the wall.
But you only glance, like life is all about
only cliff notes. A private investigator
might not be able to research me enough
to get the true meaning. So next time you
read that writing, go ahead. Look closer.


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