Janet Kuypers Poems – Page 8

“Love ”, Janet Kuypers’ Poetry’s “Love Letter” live feature at Let Them Eat Chocolate, in Chicago 4/10/15

May 19, 2015May 19, 2015 by Janet Kuypers

See YouTube video of the 4/10/15 Janet Kuypers show Love (with John playing guitar) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Let Them Eat Chocolate in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera), of 6 new love poems

See YouTube video of the 4/10/15 Janet Kuypers show Love (with John playing guitar) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Let Them Eat Chocolate in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot), of 6 new love poems

See YouTube video of the poem “eyes”, read by Janet Kuypers (with John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show Love at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem “just you”, read by Janet Kuypers (with John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show Love at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem “electricity”, read by Janet Kuypers (with John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show Love at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem “jihadists and astrophysics”, read by Janet Kuypers (with John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show Love at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the haiku poem drowning”, read by Janet Kuypers (with John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show Love at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See a Vine video of the haiku poem drowning”, read by Janet Kuypers (with John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show Love at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Samsung)

See YouTube video of the poem “only philosophy”, read by Janet Kuypers (with John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show Love at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

Janet Kuypers’ “Journey” poetry feature 3/28/15, with poetry about her mother

May 10, 2015 by Janet Kuypers

the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (with John playing guitar) at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera), of 14 poem readings about her mother

the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (with John playing guitar) at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera), of 14 poem readings about her mother

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of cry for me (with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Story Telling (part one) (a portion of her 2006 poem Story Telling, with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of It Hurts in the Bones (2015 edit) (with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Your Soul is Shaking (with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Listening to the Cancer Ads (with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Reduced To Now (an edit of her 2006 poem This Is What It’s Reduced To Now, with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of final rally (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem Final Rally, with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Seven Ten, Seven Twenty (with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of the Messenger (2015 edit) (an edit of her 2006 poem The Messenger, with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Knelt and Cried (with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of A Little Angel Inside (with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Story Telling (the end) (the end of her 2006 poem Story Telling, with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of extinct on planet earth (with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of old school and high-tech monuments (with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the haiku poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Lucille Ann to make a Vine video in the middle of her poem reading for old school and high-tech monuments (with John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku Lucille Ann as a looping JKPoetryVine video (with John playing guitar) during her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed on a Samsung smart phone)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku Lucille Ann as a looping JKPoetryVine video as practice hours before her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed on a Samsung smart phone)

Janet Kuypers’ 3/21/14 Chi Fi poetry show “Imzadi”

April 25, 2015 by Janet Kuypers

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/21/15 show “Imzadi” at the “Chi Fi 2015” convention in Chicago (filmed with a filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera), of poems relating to Star Trek

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/21/15 show “Imzadi” at the “Chi Fi 2015” convention in Chicago (filmed with a filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera), of poems relating to Star Trek

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Star Trek, Star Wars and Storm Troopers in her 3/20/15 show “Imzadi” at the “Chi Fi 2015” convention in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her bonus Periodic Table Star Trek poem Nitrium in her 3/21/15 show “Imzadi” at the “Chi Fi 2015” convention in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem kinds of interference in her 3/21/15 show “Imzadi” at the “Chi Fi 2015” convention in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem kinds of interference in her 3/21/15 show “Imzadi” at the “Chi Fi 2015” convention in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Uncuffed in her 3/21/15 show “Imzadi” at the “Chi Fi 2015” convention in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Uncuffed in her 3/21/15 show “Imzadi” at the “Chi Fi 2015” convention in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Full Stop in her 3/21/15 show “Imzadi” at the “Chi Fi 2015” convention in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Full Stop in her 3/21/15 show “Imzadi” at the “Chi Fi 2015” convention in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera)

Janet Kuypers’ 3/20/14 Chi Fi poetry show “Resistance is Futile”

April 11, 2015 by Janet Kuypers

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera), of poems relating to Star Trek

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera), of poems relating to Star Trek

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Red Matter in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Red Matter in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Outer Space and the Sound of Silence in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Outer Space and the Sound of Silence in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Eugene’s Limit in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Eugene’s Limit in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

And a bonu poem performance at the end of her show…

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Diburnium in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200 video camera)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Diburnium in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Chi Fi in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot video camera)

You can also download the chapbook “Resistance is Futile” that contains all of these poems…

Nitrium, bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series – based on the original name (before Natrium) for Sodium, #11, Na – by Chicago poet Janet Kuypers

March 27, 2015 by Janet Kuypers

Nitrium

Janet Kuypers

(bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
based on the original name (before Natrium) for Sodium, #11, Na
started 1/16/15, edited and completed 1/29/15

I’ve been studying elements
in the Periodic Table, and when
I heard the word “Nitrium,”
it made me laugh
(thinking of Nitrous Oxide).
So I looked it up online…
The only thing I could find
was from the Memory Alpha
in Star Trek Wikia,
and they could only guess
that Nitrium was either an alloy
or a metallic element.

But the history buff in me
remembered that Nitrium
is a variant of natrium,
and it was the original name
for the element Sodium.

(I mean, doctors even call
low sodium levels in the blood
hyponatremia…)

So as I read up
at my Star Trek Wikia —
I suddenly realized how
essential this Nitrium really was:

If you remember basic chemistry,
sodium reacts violently with water,
disintegrating, or even exploding
(no no no, you’re thinking of salt,
that’s not straight sodium,
that’s why it mixes with water…)

And as I read, Nitrium
(which was the first name
for Sodium)
was prevalent in asteroids
and it was used
in so many places
in the construction
of Federation starships.

Now, when it comes to our own bodies,
Sodium (or should I say Nitrium)
controls blood pressure
and blood volume —
it’s essential in our bodies
to keep them running smoothly.

So it makes total sense
that Galaxy-glass vessels
used Nitrium in their ships,
from computers, to engines
to their life support systems.

Nitrium was so crucial
to the Cost of Living —
you see, I expanded my research
from Star Trek Wikia
to straight-up Wikipedia
and discovered that parasites
were eating the Nitrium
all over the Enterprise,
jeopardizing the ship’s integrity.

Because as I’ve learned,
with every Periodic Table
element out there
there’s a good side
and a bad side:
if Nitrium is used
all over the Enterprise,
something could easily come along
to destroy it as well.

I mean, think of it
in our own bodies:
when Sodium (or Nitrium)
reacts with water
and forms Sodium Hydroxide,
but this reaction
gets the Hydrogen so hot
that it burns.

And if Nitrium
was the original name for Sodium,
that probably explains why
you never see
a Galaxy-class starship
entering a planet’s atmosphere,
where there’s water in the air.
Because really,
the people at Star Trek learned
that even just a little water in the air
would be enough
to make their starship
disintegrate
around them.

…Really, whenever the Enterprise
actually goed to a planet,
they never land on the planet
with their big Galaxy-class starship,
they send a shuttle,
or they beam someone down,
because in this case,
the water in the air
that’s embedded in the atmosphere,
that water could react
with the Sodium —
oops, I mean,
that water could react
with the Nitrium —
and it might actually
do the Enterprise in.

As I said,
with all the elements
I’ve studied,
there’s a good side
and a bad side to them.
We might desperately need them,
but they also may somehow
do us in
if they’re mixed
in the just the right way.

Because if you sit in a lab
in the twenty-first century,
you can watch this element
react with water in a beaker —
and if you’re going
where no one has gone before
in the twenty-fourth century,
you might have to be sure
your Nitrium-rich ship
finds no water in space,
and finds no parasites
that may eat you
out of your only way home.