poem Your Soul is Shaking, a poem about how you feel when someone you love is about to die, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Your Soul is Shaking
08/29/06
can you imagine a water glass
filled with crystal clear water
and
I don’t know what an earthquake feels like
but imagine something you have no control over
starting to shake everything around you
and
and everything just starts shaking
and the water in that glass is rippling
and it’s starting to splash in its glass
and you want to hold on to that damn glass
to make the water stay in place
but you’re shaking with that glass
and
you don’t want anything to fall apart
you see everything around
unexpectedly start shaking
like everything’s about to tear in half
and
you watch the rippling of the water
and you realize
that your soul is shaking like that too

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Like Janet Kuypers’ writing on any of these links below:

Listen (or listen live)
to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Singular

Watch the YouTube video
(1:21) 10/15/07 Peter Jones art gallery, Chicago

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 7/4/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers’ open mike 7/4/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her reading poems, including this one (w/ live piano from Gary)
See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Your Soul is Shaking (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

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

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

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

Download these poems in the free chapbook
“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

the book Writing to Honour & Cherish (Kuypers edition)

Life on the Edge, 2007 ccd collection book, front cover

It All Comes Down, 2007 Janet Kuypers book, front cover

Rising to the Surface, 2007 Janet Kuypers book, front cover

my hand to an anim of jkchair