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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xyresic Flames” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “United we Wonder”, then her haiku poems “civil”, “mirror”, “hold”, “gone”, “out there”, and “found”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xyresic Flames” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “United we Wonder”, then her haiku poems “civil”, “mirror”, “hold”, “gone”, “out there”, and “found”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems #8220;Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 3 poetry readings for Community Poetry at Half Price Books 10/2/19. In part 1, Janet Kuypers reads her poem “Ends of the Earth”, then her poems based on The Bible: “Genesis One”, “Genesis Two and Three”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing”, then her poem “Listen to Life”, all read from the cc&d v292 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “In The Fall”. In part 2, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Someone Give Me the Answers” and “Their Crutches” from the 3/18/03 poetry show “Death Comes In Threes”, then her poems #8220;Touch (2019 edit)” and Explosive Energy”, all read from the Down in the Dirt v166 (Sept.-Oct. 2019 issue) perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book “Climate Change” - then she read her poems “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, “Just the Right Words”, “Vastness of Just the Right Moon”, and her two Notre Dame poems “Xystus to Foundation” and “Xyresic Flames”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”. In part 3, Janet Kuypers reads her poems “”, “Eat Your Words”, “Xenon and PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, and “Kept my Eye on You”, all read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xanthoxenite in St. Mary Lake” and “Xyresic Flames” from the April 2021 v182 issue of Down in the Dirt’s paperback book “i am not alone”, plus her new poem “your body from the tub (dreams 3/30/21)”, at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 4/4/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xanthoxenite in St. Mary Lake” and “Xyresic Flames” from the April 2021 v182 issue of Down in the Dirt’s paperback book “i am not alone”, plus her new poem “your body from the tub (dreams 3/30/21)”, at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 4/4/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xystus to Foundation”, “Xanthoxenite in St. Mary Lake”, and “Xyresic Flames” from the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years” 7/21/21 for “The Café Gallery 7/21/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xystus to Foundation”, “Xanthoxenite in St. Mary Lake”, and “Xyresic Flames” from the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years” 7/21/21 for “The Café Gallery 7/21/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Xyresic Flames Janet Kuypers 4/26/19 (written after the Notre Dame fire) Once in France’s history, the Catholic church — and the Notre Dame — reigned supreme. Catholicism was the state religion, and they collected heavy tithes from all people’s incomes, without the church paying a dime. So during the French Revolution in the 1790s, revolutionaries looted the Notre Dame — saying that it wasn’t even a church at all — and even as they tried to remove the Catholic church from France, the Notre Dame survived. # When Adolf Hitler knew defeat was near by the end of 1944, he gave out the order — if it looked like the allies would recapture Paris, then Germany must destroy every religious and historical monument, including the Notre Dame. But without the manpower or the munitions, German military in Paris could not abide by the telegram telling him to leave all of Paris “in complete rubble”, so after falling in love with the Notre Dame, they defied the Führer. # Even in recent years, extremist attacks in 2015, 2016, 2017, show shootings, car bombs, even slitting the throats of those celebrating mass in the Notre Dame. The church survived; but new terrorism based on religion also flourished. # I’ve always loved fire. Light some candles, listen to the crack and pop of burning wood in your fireplace. We discovered fire countless millennia ago, and use it for light, heat, energy. We contain this beautiful beast to become our tool. We enjoy campfires and roasting marshmallows, we keep fire alarms charged to protect us. We find fire fascinating, and we forget to fear a fire catastrophe that can take down a forest of dried wood in a single revered cathedral. Humankind has this love/hate relationship with fire, with its thousands of chemical reactions producing a hypnotic flame. We must remember that it is not the destruction of things that feeds the flame, but the formation of new bonds that creates the heat and drives this chain reaction... as it did with xyresic flames in the 12+-hour fire of the 850-year-old Notre Dame. It is a love/hate relationship we have with fire, because of what it gives, and what it takes away.

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