Hollyhocks, Sunflowers, & Coneflowers, WIP, © 2020 M. Kogan, watercolor & watercolor pencil.
hollyhocks,
dance in my dreams
and multiply…
© 2020 Michelle Kogan
Happy Poetry Friday!
I am thinking about the fall, schools beginning, and people returning to on location jobs. My first thoughts are, we’re not ready. Hence this tanka poem evolved…
ANTICIPATING FALL
Anticipation
of fall, falls on many–
But will those who decide
anticipate outcomes
judiciously for all?
© 2020 Michelle Kogan
In a few free moments last night I wrote a poem to the photo prompt Margaret Simon posted Wednesday night, THIS PHOTO WANTS TO BE A POEM… Thanks Margaret! Go check out the other poems written to this gorgeous and mysterious feather prompt at her blog REFLECTIONS ON THE TECHE.
Feather
undulates
towards sky–
Proud remnant
and reminder of
proud peoples
still fighting
for indigenous
rights
© 2020 Michelle Kogan
And a Float haiku for Jan…
float by summer’s
sherbet sky where justice seas
see all colors fairly…
© 2020 Michelle Kogan
Visit our gracious and ever appreciative Poetry Friday hostess this week Jan G Annino at her blog Bookseedstudio. Jan’s offering a lovely “Float” poem for her mom, and she’s invited us all to join in her Float Celebration, thanks Jan!
Visit Renée LaTulippe’s site No Water River to find out more about what Poetry Friday is.
Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 
soooooooooo pretty! The hollyhocks are just soooooo pretty! Thousands agree with you about returning to our school locations. My school board met from 6 pm last night until 1:41 am this morning. It was a nail biter. But, our first quarter will be all virtual — which I think is the right decision. We need time for teachers to be back, on contract and working on solutions that will get us to 100% return when conditions are safe. I’ll take a scoop of sherbert sky — no sprinkles, please!
Michelle, your paintings always blow me away. You have such a gift. Oh, that sherbert sky! I love it!
Such relevant verses. I’ve been thinking about all the teachers I know, and ones who I met here and hope that you are able to be safe, and that those in charge do the right thing. My prayers are with teachers. Anticipation/ of fall, falls on many-. Yes it does.
Thank you Michelle for this bouquet! Beautiful painting and poems, and I too have dreams that multiply… xo
Dreams perhaps multiplying as poems… Thanks Irene, xo
I can feel the weight of the “anticipation of fall” in your poem, Michelle. As someone not so wise once said, “Science should not stand in the way” of schools reopening. *sigh* Thanks for sharing your words and art. 🙂
I like your positioning of fall/falls and seas/see in your poems. I am having serious anxiety over the start of school. No one has asked me, nor seems to care how teachers feel about it at all. Thanks for spotlighting This Photo. It’s a bright spot of my week.
Those hollyhocks! I hope they dance in my dreams, too :>)
Hope they do too, sending them your way…
Your beautiful painting and first poem remind me of my own post today…something about summer and flowers gets the mind reeling with ideas!
Michelle,
I love hollyhocks and your feather poem is awesome. It helps us and others when we read injustice in unexpected places and give voice to it. One step at a time with many other feet can get us where we need to go.