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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Amber Beads” (2:01) live at the Café 2/26/08 in Chicago (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Robert, I Have Learned and Amber Beads 7/31/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Robert, I Have Learned and Amber Beads 7/31/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 2/4/17 of Janet Kuypers at the Bahá’í Faith Center (Canon Power Shot SX60) reading her poem “Amber Beads” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem

See YouTube video 2/4/17 of Janet Kuypers at the Bahá’í Faith Center (Canon Power Shot SX700) reading her poem “Amber Beads” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Amber Beads”, “Childhood Memories One”, and “Chances One: Yes, It’s Yes” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Amber Beads”, “Childhood Memories One”, and “Chances One: Yes, It’s Ye” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Volumes in Flames while the Soul Flourishes” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, my poem “Amber Beads” from the Scars Publications 2019 reprint of the cc&d magazine v184 May 2008 issue-book “That was the Time”, and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 video camera, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Volumes in Flames while the Soul Flourishes” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, my poem “Amber Beads” from the Scars Publications 2019 reprint of the cc&d magazine v184 May 2008 issue-book “That was the Time”, and her poem “Such a Surreal, Ephemeral Feel” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” during the 9/15/19 at “Spoken and Heard” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 video camera, and this video was also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ends of the earth”, “Listen to Life”, “Amber Beads”, her prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Andrew Hettinger”, “Death”, “Anything for the Liquor Fix”, “Chess Game Again”, and “Children, Churches, and Daddies”, in set 4 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin through a Facebook event page (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ends of the earth”, “Listen to Life”, “Queueing in Line and Shaping Your Life”, “Amber Beads”, her prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Andrew Hettinger”, “Death”, “Anything for the Liquor Fix”, “Chess Game Again”, and “Children, Churches, and Daddies”, in set 4 from the cc&d July-December 2018 expanded issue collection book “Among the Debris” during the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

Amber Beads As the flames engulfed my worldly possessions my everything seemed to disappear. But I did not cry for the loss of the money - I cried for the photographs, and the poems, and the amber beads. I love you, mother, and I love the mother who died while I rested in your womb. Sandy tells me stories of visiting Grandma and eating pickles. And I remember every spring, every Mother’s Day, you would diligently plant flowers around the Bakutis name. I have learned to love her without ever seeing her face. Joseph tells me that I seem like my mother and I only pray to God that he’s right. For then my existence would keep the love and the caring alive in a kind of living that no strike of a match that no burning building that no mere mortal could destroy. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.