Happy Poetry Friday–The Roundup is Here!
With this last Poetry Friday post I’m ushering out 2019 and opening my arms and heart wide for 2020 and positive change for our earth’s climate!
Here’s my wakeup call poem:
2020 RAISE YOUR VOICE
We’re saving our planet, come join us!
Saving justice and compassion–
Saving forests, oceans, air,
sky, outer space, critters,
humanity, life,
and–Love for all
voices, raise
your voice
now!
©2019 Michelle Kogan
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I’m hosting a Hanukkah Party this evening, and will be checking in now and then.
Happy Holidays to all and
Wishes for a Happy, Healthy, Poem-filled
New Year!
Sketch for Woman’s March Poster 2019 © Michelle Kogan
P.S. There’s another Women’s March taking Place Saturday, January 18, 2020, hope you can get out and raise your voice for Mother Nature! Here’s the link for the Chicago Women’s March.
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Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 
Happy Hanukkah! Thanks for hosting this festive season. I hope you are enjoying the lights. And, I love the message of your post. Thank you for the fierce beauty you give to our world. Raise your voice!
Thanks Linda, here’s hoping more will want to heed this call.
I love the powerful way you’re entering 2020, with your voice raised and strong. Thank you for all you do to create and support beauty in our world. Thanks also for hosting today. May 2020 bring you much joy!
Thanks Molly, I look forward to a time when we can focus more on beauty and less on the immediate travails of our time.
You are an inspiration! I love the Gary Barlow video! We can all raise our voices and sing, for all the world to live in peace.
Thanks Margaret, music is solace for me in all that surrounds us today!
Happy Hanukkah Michelle! Thanks for hosting this week. I’m not sharing a post this week, but since I didn’t get time to read all the posts last week, I’m trying to read them this week. Both of those videos are lovely, but World in Danger makes my eyes leak.
Yes, “World in Danger” is a powerful, and moving piece that I hope will inspire others. Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Hanukkah wishes to you and yours, Michelle! Thank you for this powerful drawing and poem. We need each other to be strong and vocal during these times, and I am grateful to you. Thank you for hosting…and may 2020 bring you a year of enchanting words and pictures both! xx
Thanks Amy, I appreciate your rousing support for having strong voices–and for
creativity in the coming year!
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Chag Sameach, Michelle! i hope you a having a lovely light-filled holiday. Many thanks for hosting us this week and for sharing such an important message. Let’s hope 2020 brings great change.
Thanks Christie, and yes let’s hope and work for that change!
Dear Michelle, your passions shine through your words and art today… thank you! Hope you have a wonderful Hanukkah party! I still can’t believe we’re this close to 2020… xo
Thanks Irene, the world seems to find it’s way into many of my posts of late. Yes, time moves to quickly, we need to tell her to slow down, enjoy the lingering days of 2019… xo
Hi Michelle. Thank-you for hosting PoetryFriday today – especially as you are enjoying your Hanukkah party, too. My post isn’t really for Poetry Friday. It is all for Amber – but I wanted to share it with friends, who have followed Amber’s story through the years. So I linked in. x
What a lovely tribute post you created for Amber–she sure sounds like she was one special cow, thanks for sharing it Kat!
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Happy Hanukkah, Michelle! Thank you offering this rallying cry and for hosting us while you are hosting others! xo
Thanks Tabatha–we have some wonderful young leaders out there who are guiding us on!
Hi, thank you for hosting today. I am on my phone and can’t upload my link. Could you? https://wp.me/piUJM-3iC Much thanks
Hi Jone, Your post is up!
Thank you muchly.
Michelle, I hope your Hanukkah party was a wonderful gathering for family/friends. I always love to visit when you are raising your voice about climate change action. Thanks for hosting and raising our awareness for the new decade.
Thanks Carol, the environment seems to be ever present and foremost on my mind.
Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for your strong message for change.
Thanks Mary Lee–I keep thinking about…
“Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes” by David Bowie…
Thank you for sharing your poem and art work Michelle! They are both powerful and excellent.
Thanks Tim!
Hi Michelle. Happy New Year! Your poem and your post are both powerful and inspiring. I liked the videos you shared and, especially, your artwork. Thanks for sharing them and thanks for hosting.
Thanks Susan—hope to finish the art for the next March in January. Happy New Year! 🎆🎈🌟
I love the idea of saving justice and compassion as well as the environment and the creatures of the world. They must all go together! Thank you for the call to action. I hope 2020 is the year those in power finally get the message. Happy New Year!
Thanks JoAnn, I’m hoping for change!
Happy Hanukkah, Michelle, and how wonderful to aim so much energy straight at climate action! I like knowing you’re out there doing your thing where you are as I do my thing where I am. Raising my voice along with you!!!
Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for hosting as we close another poetry-filled year. May all of our voices rise!
Thanks for hosting! I was away from home, so I didn’t link up my post, which I’d scheduled ahead of time. I’m home now and ready to read the posts! Happy New Year! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com