Happy Poetry Friday!
I’m wringing out the old year with a wintery montage of #haikuforhope poems,
and a wee bit of music to ease us all out of the year.
Thanks Mary Lee Hahn for offering us all this December haiku challenge!
Wishing all a hopeful and peaceful end of 2018 and dreams to reach in 2019!
Be sure to stop by Donna JT Smith’s blog, Mainly Write for this weeks Poetry Friday Roundup, and some extra that I’m sure Donna is offering. Thanks for hosting Donna!
winter’s creeping
inside, burrr it’s cold…
squirrel’s fattened up
12-22-2018
winter soiree,
star dust dance wraps around our
imaginations…
12-23-2018
trees provide
picture perfect window panes
in winter
12-24-2018
winter flower waits
opening to bloom by the
light of the moon…
12-25-2018
search for december’s
green marshmallow moss and
porcupine’s scotch pine
12-26-2018
female cardinal
brings warmth and light,
to winter’s worst days…
12-27-201
All haiku © 2018 Michelle Kogan
Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 
Michelle, this collection of #haikuforhope are wonderful. I especially like 12/22 and 12/23’s haikus. Of course, your artwork is as lovely as ever. Happy New Year to you and thanks for the song. What a great version.
Thanks Carol, yes that’s an especially lovely version of the song.
I missed this call for Haiku when life sped up. So glad you Created a cool colllection though!
Thanks Donna, I’m amazed at all you’ve been able to do—you’ve been the magical glue in your family!
What a valiant cardinal to be able to fly with a candle in her beak! As the more subdued of the species, female cardinals are often overlooked… nice to have her spotlighted 🙂
Thanks Tabatha, us females have to stick together and speak for one another!
I’m so glad you shared these here, as somehow I missed quite a few of them on Twitter–no doubt due to my lack of Twitter skills! At any rate, I especially love the winter soiree and that cardinal. In recent years I’ve become quite fond of the subtle glory of female cardinals. Wonderful art as always! Happy New Year, Michelle!
Thanks Molly, though I’ve only been posting the groups on Thursdays with my blog post-trying to take a wee break while off from teaching!
Hi, Michelle–Somehow I’ve missed a bunch of these too! My favorite is the porcupine’s scotch pine one. Our female cardinals are much browner and less charming than your glorious cardinal of paradise! Happy new year.
Thanks Heidi-though the less brilliant females wear their colors secretly on the inside. Happy New Year to you and your family!
Thanks for this bounty! (And it looks like I am following Heidi around the blogosphere.) Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
Thanks Ruth, Happy New Year!
I’ve enjoyed your haiku, as always, this month, Michelle. My Kindergarten ornithologists always say they feel sorry for Lady Cardinal that she doesn’t have much color. 🙂 Happy new year!
Somehow I’ve missed your haiku, Michelle. These are lovely. I miss having cardinals in Colorado, grew up loving them in Missouri. I love that final one, the ‘winter flower’ and the art, too. The song is sweetly nostalgic, as it should be. Happy New Year!
I’m sorry you haven’t any cardinals in Colorado–I wonder why they aren’t there… Glad you liked the music, it’s quite emotive. All the best to you for 2019!
The little mouse and flower haiga warms the cockles of my heart. Happy 2019!
Aw, thanks Diane, and Happy New Year to you too!
Your haiku collection creates wonderful winter images. I love your cardinal sketch that honors the less colorful female! Happier New Year with thanks for the Auld Lang Syne lyrics.
Beautiful Cardinal and Haiku, fellow etsian! (I make handcrafted jewelry.) I also especially like your Haiku about trees making picture perfect window panes! Your haiku are a treat for the senses! Thank you!
Thanks—I’ll check out your shop, is it the apples in my orchard?
Thanks! That would be great – It’s carolsjewleryorchard.etsy.com
Michelle, these are fantastic as always! You have such a gift with words and art. I especially love the female cardinal and winter flower!
I think 12/24 is my favorite in this group. The starkness of the trees in winter beg description, don’t they?
Definitely–when bleakness surrounds, the trees rescue our minds and carry us elsewhere…
Michelle, these haiku are lovely. And your illustrations, as always, are beautiful and full of light.
I especially like the illustration of the kitty with the flower and the flower waiting to bloom by the light of the moon.
Thanks for sharing your work. You always inspire me! Happy New Year!
Thanks Susan, wishing you and your daughters a happy New Year!🎈🎊🎆
I’m saving your winter flower haiku, Michelle. I am nursing an orchid back from dormancy and it will bloom any day now. Your haiku captures the excitement of waiting.
Thanks Laura, good luck with the orchid—they are favorites of mine especially when they bloom. I’ve been thinking about using “wait” as my one little word this year… 🥳 Happy New Year!?🎊🎈 🎆
Your haiku are lovely, Michelle. I especially love your “star dust dance” wrapping around our imaginations and trees “picture perfect window panes.” Thank you for sharing, and Happy New Year to you and your family!