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Watch this YouTube video (:56) in Longmont, Colorado 06/16/0 before jumping out of an airplane

Watch the YouTube video (2:31) live at Mercury Cafe, live in Chicago 2/16/08

Enjoy the full YouTube video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy the full Internet Archive video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Watch the YouTube video from IPB: the feature 06/29/11 of Impromptu Poetry on the Beach

See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read at Beach Poets from IPB: the Impromptu Poetry on the Beach feature 06/29/11

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 11/5/16 show “New Beginning, Firsts and the Future” at Expressions 2016! New Beginnings: the Future of Poetry in Austin reading her poems “a New Life”, “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, and her song “In Love I Abide” to live guitar and keyboard (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook New Beginning, Firsts and the Future with “a New Life” “Under the Sea”, “Saving Fingers and Scooping Ice Cream”, “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “My First Time”, “Falling From the Sky”, “Questioning Creativity through the Cosmos”, & “In Love I Abide”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Falling From the Sky” and “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far” from her book “Revealed”, plus her poem “Zenith of the Night Sky” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Falling From the Sky” and “Keeping a Record of Going Too Far” from her book “Revealed”, plus her poem “Zenith of the Night Sky” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of cc&d’s book “Nothing Lasts” poems “a New Life”, “My First Time”, “Falling from the Sky”, and “Questioning Creativity Through the Cosmos” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ September 2017 Book Release Reading 9/6/17 of cc&d’s book “Nothing Lasts” poems “a New Life”, “My First Time”, “Falling from the Sky”, and “Questioning Creativity Through the Cosmos” in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Check Your Clock”, then reading her two poems “a New Life” and “Falling From the Sky” from her feature “New Beginnings, Firsts and the Future” chapbook live 1/19/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Check Your Clock”, then reading her two poems “a New Life” and “Falling From the Sky” from her feature “New Beginnings, Firsts and the Future” chapbook live 1/19/9/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Falling From the Sky Janet Kuypers, 06/16/07 (11:27 A.M. mountain time) I’m taking a one-way flight today And you know, when people say they have a one-way ticket You assume the plane                                     is landing them somewhere And not flying them back But lucky me, my only way back Is to jump out of the sky And hope I land on my own two feet And my flight takes off In just a little while And I can feel that tension knot That knot’s rope, being pulled By all my nerves And like it was heartburn I want to slam my fist into my chest To try to make the pain go away So I’ve spent all my life Trying to soar so high But I guess I have to be prepared For coming back to earth Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.