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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition We Experience” (written 7/16 for the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon) “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), on the moonlight theme 7/18/19 at “Thirsty Thursday” in Dripping Springs (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition We Experience” (written 7/16 for the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon) “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), on the moonlight theme 7/18/19 at “Thirsty Thursday” in Dripping Springs (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition We Experience” (written 7/16 for the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon) “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), on the moonlight theme 7/18/19 at “Thirsty Thursday” in Dripping Springs (video filmed rom a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Juxtaposition We Experience” (written 7/16 for the 1969 date Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the Moon) “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), on the moonlight theme 7/18/19 at “Thirsty Thursday” in Dripping Springs (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, live 7/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, live 7/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Just a Little Crazy”, and her poems “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written on 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), and “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos) live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Just a Little Crazy”, and her poems “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written on 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), and “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos) live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia Tone).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus July poem “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14, for the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/14/20 (on this event date) as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthly Gravitational Bond to the Moon” (written 7/8/19, the launch date in 2011 of the Last Space Shuttle Mission), “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14, for the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written 7/15, on the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/18/20 during the Zoom meeting for the Open Mic Showcase (on a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthly Gravitational Bond to the Moon” (written 7/8/19, the launch date in 2011 of the Last Space Shuttle Mission), “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14, for the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written 7/15, on the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/18/20 during the Zoom meeting for the Open Mic Showcase (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling” and “Unraveling Two More Moons” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom”, read 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling” and “Unraveling Two More Moons” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom”, read 10/6/21 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 and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Unraveling Two More Moons”, “Vastness of Just the right Moon”, and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 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; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Unraveling Two More Moons”, “Vastness of Just the right Moon”, & “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 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 & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Unraveling Two       More Moons Janet Kuypers 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos We look up to the stars and we reach out — in any way we can imagine, so we can learn everything there is out there... if the best way to do that is to send an unmanned spacecraft to the next planet to do a flyby and snap a few photos, then, well, that’s what we’ll do. We’ll ship our ship to our nearest sibling, and finally see that red planet, Mars. And what a view it was, it was our first chance to learn about an entirely new world, not so far away in our little corner of this galactic universe. This journey, these photos, whet our appetite and gave us a glimpse of what more we could learn. And that ship, in future study, brought into our focus two more moons to unravel, discovering Phobos and Deimos, two tiny orbs with the opposite fate of our own moon. Now, these two moons are asteroid-sized, and spin so close to Mars that we could barely see them. In mythology, Phobos is one of twin sons of the god of war, Ares — Mars in Roman — and of these “brothers”, Phobos means fear, Deimos, flight. And unlike our moon, these moons do not fear their planet, as our moon’s orbit pulls the moon away from Earth every orbit... These Mars asteroidal moons actually pull closer to Mars, so their fate will eventually be an epic collision... with Mars, that probably in their past took them in. So as much as we like learning about everything from asteroids to moons, it is sad to know that after we learned of these beautiful little gems, we know they’ll eventually be gone. So the only choice we have is to continue to look, and continue to learn everything we can about these two precious Mars moons before they’re gone, while we still have the time, and we have the opportunity to find more out there to fall for.

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