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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “Quiet Stream”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (filmed with a Canon video camera)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “Quiet Stream”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (filmed with a Sony video camera)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading eleven Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago, including this poem (Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 9 Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago, including this poem (Sony; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium (with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa, with Quiet Stream) live 10/16/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium (with background music from the HA!Man of South Africa, with Quiet Stream) live 10/16/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v227 2/25 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Murder by Burger” book poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium” (which also appears in the book “Periodic Table Poetry”, + showing a 10/4/13 show image and poem image), “Grab the Other’s Neck” (+ showing 8/28/05 Poetry Fest images 1 & 2), & “Warren Stories” during her “Poetic License 2/2/25 Global Open Mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium Janet Kuypers Bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, #099, Es based on the poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein” and “Einsteinium” 9/30/13 Einstein dismissed some of his theories — even some we may know all too well. Einstein didn’t like some of his theories because he thought they weren’t beautiful. And I wonder: what is beauty? Is it the geomagnetic aberrations of the Aurora Borealis dancing along the horizon at the arctic circle? Is it the eternally changing wisps of volcanic trails in the Saturn moon Titan’s atmosphere? Or is it converting matter into pure energy with just the right formula? We ask, what is beauty? They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So it makes me wonder... Einstein understood that everything was relative... Because once he fathomed the relationship between matter and energy, once he understood the interconnectivity between matter and energy — he understood that his knowledge in the hands of evil men could mean that his Fatherland, the land he escaped from, he understood that Hitler and the Third Reich could be working on an atomic bomb, converting so little matter into so much devastating energy. Einstein understood the gravity of his writing a letter to appeal to Roosevelt to create this bomb, to protect us from Germany. Now: imagine the finality of naming an element discovered after the first explosion of the hydrogen bomb after Albert Einstein. Because really, in a way, it’s ironically beautiful. So we ask, what is beauty? Because chemists will make it clear that Einsteinium has no known uses... But think about it: is there any logical reason to grow a certain flower and purchase it at inflated prices to give to someone you’re smitten with on an early date? Is there any logical reason to accept the Deboers company global stranglehold over stopping the release of an otherwise common crystal so that a loved one can cherish a clear stone on their left finger to show the world that they’re otherwise “taken”? Is there any logical reason to claim a song for a slow dance on your wedding day? Logically? Of course not. But we do it anyway, we keep dried rose petals from that infatuating relationship, women constantly ooh and aah over engagement ring sizes, and married people intrinsically feel they have to dance when they hear their wedding song. How illogical. But how beautiful. So we ask what is beauty. And all scientists seem to use Einsteinium for now is basic scientific research, but that seems oddly fitting, since that is what Einstein did best. To think. To research. And that is beautiful.

 


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