Chaotic Kuypers

poetry is sorted alphabetically by year.

Choose your year, then your title.

Copyright © 1979 through this year Janet Kuypers. All of her writing which has been published in a Scars Publications book is U.S. Government copyright © 2004 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

1980

under the sea

1983

can i ask you something
Hartman and Saper, Corp.
hit joey
how to write a poem
if i will have the time
i’m sorry
it’s you
moonlight
mulberry zoo
space journey
spring
what are those noises in the dark?
worms

1985

a smile on my face
all my problems disappear
an innocent glance
do you know
good bye
have a friend in me
i see more
nothing colorful in my sight
the place
weeping willow
when i am weak

1986

a new life
after the bomb
a new extension
Autumn
in love i abide
knife
morning
my dragon
my room
only in dreams
rain
senses
simple things
snow
sometimes
summer
the beach at night
the joshua tree
tired of life
trapped
untitled
what to do
without religion

1987

a common acquaintance
a crying baby
decision
gives up the fight
grains of sand
i do think of you
life
like the dreams in your heart
maybe i love you
Mesmerizing
monotony
now i’m strong
there are too many poems about you, david
there is a fire in my heart
to the river
wanted to play
you once showed me

1988

a new day
a smile on my face
best friend
because I am told
cried alone
find myself
finest feeling
gasoline
he’s gone
ice cubes
i cannot love
i knew i had to
irony
i see the scene
i’ve played this game
like daggers
love poem
make me
masquerade
mesmerizing
my
naivity
nights
pocket knife
pushed aside
put it to rest
r.f.b.
religion
rendering me
sobering
sometimes the light
superficial
the best times in my life
the hammer falls
the hand
the nightmare
the road not taken
the sky is always blue
the tears
they tried
to lisa
touch
untitled
when i am weak
writing your name

1989

alexi
amber beads
cry to be held
desirous
hard enough anymore
have no backbone
how could i not love you?
i don’t care
i have learned
john
leather jacket
listen to what you’re not hearing
my blood
no longer pity you
oh mother
quite happy looking
robert
that is you
this may sound
when you go home this evening
yeah
your little China doll

1990

all men have secrets
egg drop soup (or a response to a love letter)
high roller
i just waited
i listen
tall man
the dream
the room of the rape
the second death
there i sit
victim - a song
why - a part of a song

1991

brewing the coffee and remembering summer
father’s tears
how to do theimpossible
how toscramble an egg
i look at the letters again
i wanted pain
morning will be kind
motorcycle
photograph, nineteenth century
republican
the cycle
they called it trust
what you could make me do

1992

a match
“addict.”
confident women
david
perversion
right there, by your heart
sheri
the burning
see the burning as an animated image
you love, dear man, is as lovely to me

1993

chldren, churches and daddies
coquinas
in the air
one summer
oriental
slate and marrow
the flashback
the muse, the messiah
the page
the fourteenth
wedding lost

1994

a child in the park
a stand-off
acknowledge
backbone family act
childhood memories one, two, three, four, five or six
christmas eve
conversations one, two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight
coslow’s
death
decorating the lockers
dive
door frame
forward
from the new orleans poems - franch quarter
games
god eyes
he told me his dreams one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight or nine
hole in the heart
ikebana
from the new orleans poems - jackson square
james
johnathan
j’reviens
knife
last before extinction
mask
morning
motions on the planet
my father, shooting an animal
my love for you will stay the same - a song
orion
other horizons
our anniversary
paper
paranoia
poam - a conversation with jimbo breen
poam - a militant man with schixophrenia
private lives one
private lives two
see the prose section for private lives three, the prose piece in this series of writings, by going to the prose section of this listing.
private lives four
rain
raking leaves
ring
room
senses
she told me her dreams one, two, three, four, five or six
signs of the times
silence
st. anthony’s medallion
from the new orleans poems - the bridge to new orleans
transcribing dreams one. two or three
twin
two years
understand
one of six poems about one person - waiting for you
walking home from school
one of six poems about one person - walking with you
one of six poems about one person - wanting you
one of six poems about one person - watching you
what we need in life - a song
one of six poems about one person - with you
one of six poems about one person - without you

1995

1996

a retired policeman talking about the suicides he’s seen.
a woman talking about her rapist friend
anyone good enough
before i learned better
bizarre sexual stories in the news
Bring Her Back
burn though me
can’t answer that one
catching a moscovy
chances one - yes, it’s yes
chances two - here i am
from the poems about mom - changing the locks
couldn’t take it home
desire
emergency room stories
flase suicide
golfing with George Eastman
headache
hiding vices
from the poems about mom - joe putz-a-vucki
john
knew all along
knowing Kevorkian
make people think
Marilyn Monroe’s sex life
motorcycle
odd how things turn out that way.
on an airplane with a frequent flyer
pop a pill
probably not
realistic dreams
Russiana at a garage sale
the last time
the moon

the things warren says
this halloween
this may soud
this you don’t hate.
trust
warren stories
was immune
from the poems about mom - watching my father die
water on the street

1997

a man calls a woman
a socially accepted target
all these reminders
and i’m wondering
and what i want to know
andrew hettinger
athena
barbie
because this is what we do
burn it in
can’t answer that one
choices
civil war
from poems with David Jarvie - climbing trees
communications
contempt for man
content with inferior men
diane talking about her trip to mexico city
didn’t know what it was
down the drain
down the drain - in Chinese
down the drain - in Russian

from poems with David Jarvie - eating

fire alarms
fire alarms - in Sign Language

from poems on religion - fulfill their deepect vications
gary’s blind date
gift of matherhood one
gift of matherhood two

here is me
here is me - in Korean

i have my dreams
i have my dreams - in Braille
i have my dreams - in Greek

i must believe
i must believe - in Braille

i never took a life until i took my own

i’m always the one
i’m always the one - in Hungarian

i’m thinking about myself too much
in their homes or in the streets
infallible

issues
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

Japanese television

Kurt Irons - it’s just a girl
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
Kurt Irons [translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

lambs to heaven’s gate
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

lessons from the Simpsons
loggers
from poems with David Jarvie - losing my best friend

love has tendrils
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]
[translated from English to Spanish, then back to English]

loved you the most
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

married
middle-class husbands and fathers

more than we should have
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

more whiskey sours
more whiskey sours - in Hungarian

from poems on religion - most accurate metaphors
never did the same

new to chicago
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

no regrets together

on the california streets
on the california streets - in Bulgarian

only a year

pioneer
[in French] [in German] [in Italian] [in Portuguese] [in Spanish]

run faster
salamander

saving myself
saving myself - in Catalan

saving yourself
saving yourself - in Arabic

scars’97
see you crawl
self-destructive
from poems on religion - service of others
shame on me
she was a woman
shiny new again
from poems with David Jarvie - shopping
sorry flowers
statue
surprise
take the pain
from poems on religion - thank you, women who work one
from poems on religion - thank you, women who work two
the bathroom at the green mill
the deep end
the measuring scale
the men at the construction site
the mistakes he made
the one you always loved
the way you tease me
from poems on religion - they see independently
this halloween
this is my dilemma
too much light
two minutes with Ayn Rand
understand
unscathed
use what you had
watching you eat a doughnut
ways to spend your money
what do we say
where i belong - written to sing to a song
who is at my side
who you tell your dreams to
why do you
why i’ll never get married
women’s very existence
you and me and your girlfriend
you are
you feel more

1998

The First Half of the Year

almost the best part
anyone good enough
being god
burning building
carpet
death is a dog
death takes many forms
fantastic car crash
holding my hand
i dreamt about you last night
i’m not sick but i’m not well
isn’t it amazing
let the war begin
looking for a worthy adversary
mixing metaphors
panther
present and past
written with chad maier - springtime
the kitchen
timing is everything
true happiness in the new millenium
weren’t even married
what women want
will be just fine
you won’t miss her

1998

The Recovery

The Second Half of the Year

These poems are unedited and written in a journalistic style, and some are very long. These pieces were written shortly after a debilitating accident, changing the author’s attitudes and views about her surroundings.

These pieces are grouped in cluster within the half year by theme. Within each stylistic section the pieces are alphabetic.