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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quignogs: make Someday Today” (written 9/15, on a holiday for “Someday”), “Keep Looking for Hope” (written 9/16, on Anne Bradstreet Day, the day the British poet Anne Bradstreet passed way in 1672; b. 1612), “Bamboo” (for World Bamboo Day, 9/18), and “Only Man on Earth” (written 9/21, on the International Day of Peace) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” 9/15/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, “Keep Looking for Hope”, “Bamboo”, and “Only Man on Earth” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” 9/15/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (video filmed and streamed w/ a Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, from the v313 9/21 cc&d issue/book “Choices” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, from the v313 9/21 cc&d book “Choices” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Edith’s Lament”, “Only Man on Earth”, “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Edith’s Lament”, “Only Man on Earth”, “Quignogs: make Someday Today”, and “Known for my Poetry” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside” 1/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Quignogs: make Someday                                   Today Janet Kuypers 9/15/19, on a holiday for “Someday Someday I’ll walk in a rainforest. Someday I’ll swim with sharks. Someday I’ll jump out of an airplane, wait a minute, someday I’ll fly an airplane, I’ll be at the controls guiding my flight through the sky. Someday I’ll be on the radio, wait a minute, someday I’ll be on tv. Someday I’ll trek the globe. Someday I’ll retrace Darwin’s steps. Someday, I’ll drink German beer in München’s quaff-tide* Octoberfest. Someday, I’ll run with the bulls, scared out of my life, but I’ll do it. Someday, I’ll skip Christmas Island and go to Easter Island to cold chill with those giant Rapa Nui statues. Someday, I’ll finally get to Tibet, I won’t know the language, but it won’t matter, I’ll just spend weeks there to sit, meditate. Maybe I could finally for once feel at peace. We all keep talking about bucket lists, and we all keep saying “someday...” wistfully never acting on our dreams. Of course it’s nice to dream, but your pipe-dreams are not quignogs**, and every once in awhile, we need to make someday... today.   * Quaff-tide: “The season for drinking,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary. ** Quignogs: An old Cornish word for pipedreams, or ridiculous thoughts or ideas.

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