Happy Poetry Friday!
Come on in and sit for a spell, kick back and soak in some traces of summer, some poetry and art…
beach walk blooms…
prairie’s dainty petals dance
in nature kissed winds.
brunch by the shore—
wind, wave, wings, wonder,
all senses inspired.
City softly rests,
prairie paints itself with
dabs of light lilac
in late spring’s sand-sea of
lemony-sun-sap green.
All poems © 2022 Michelle Kogan
Father’s Day is just around the corner…
Above is a new Dad’s Day Card available in my online Etsy Shop
Get your creative juices flowing,
Come join one of my
Summer Art Classes
Starting the week of June 13, 2022
I’m offering both In-person and Online classes
at the Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL
All classes meet 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
For more Info & To Register online click on the link for class below
or call 847-475-5300
Online: Monday – Figure and Nature Drawing and Painting Starts June 13, 2022
In-person: Tuesday – Watercolors Materials and Techniques Starts June 14, 2022
Tuesday – Watercolors Materials and Techniques Starts July 26, 2022
Wednesday – Children’s Picture Book Illustration Starts June 15, 2022
Friday – Pen and Ink and Watercolor Starts June 17, 2022
Friday – Pen and Ink and Watercolor Starts July 29, 2022
Workshops: Saturday –Poetry & Art Workshop June 18th & June 25th, 2022
Saturday –Plein Air in the City Workshop July 23rd, July 30th, and August 6, 2022
Saturday –Plein Air in the City Workshop August 13th and August 20th, 2022
For more poetry visit Karen Edmisten at her blog by this same name. Karen’s hosting our Poetry Friday Roundup, thanks Karen!
Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 
Love each part, Michelle, and the delight of ‘brunch by the shore’! Thanks for all the beauty!
What a lovely post! A welcome respite from all the madness. Esp. love the whooping crane and ducks painting. 🙂
This post is a breath of fresh air. I especially love the motion you captured in your sea gull photo. It’s magnificent. And “Lemony-sun-sap green.”
Gorgeous photos and poems!
What a gift you have, Michelle! I live in the desert and the mountains, so it’s a treat to see a wild shoreline.
Thanks for sharing! These are lovely.
This is such a restful post, Michelle. So lovely. I especially liked your seagull snap. And I adore your ‘City softly rests’ poem; such delicate language. And your whooping crane! Lovely! Thank-you for sharing your rich and varied talents with us.
It’s fun to see your photos along with your poems! I love that dad’s day evergreen hedge.
Michelle, this is an awesome invitation to enjoy summer! I love every part of your post: photographs, poems, drawings, and your Etsy shop. Good luck with all your classes. They sound marvelous. Save some of these summer image poems for my summer gallery. Still trying to get my Poetryliscious gallery completed but having issues with my eyes so everything is slow going. I highlighted your offering for the gallery at my PF post.
Thanks Carol! Sorry your eyes are not cooperating, I hope they improve soon, that must be very frustrating.
What a experience to come to this page online and experience the sun and flowers — sun-sap green just might be my new favorite color!
Thanks for the poetic walk along the shore, Michelle. I can almost hear the seagull’s enthusiasm via your photo/poem!
Michelle, thank you for taking me to the beach and prairie! I needed these journeys. Your whooping crane and duck card is colorful and beautiful! I love all of your poems especially your first haiku! I love all the lines in your second haiku, too! What a great metaphor “lunch by the shore” is. In your last poem I love all the sounds of your alliteration. consonance, and assonance make. My favorite lines in this poem are “prairie paints itself with/dabs of light lilac” and “lemony-sun-sap green”. Thank you for all of your treats in this post and your inspiration! Have fun with your summer classes. For eleven summers, I taught summer enrichment classes in poetry and reading to 1st-5th graders, and I miss it. During the summer of 2020, they had online classes and now they have mostly sport classes. I used to have my students illustrate their final drafts of their poems and they we made a book of them with yarn and staples. I had so many great crafty and art stuff for them to illustrate with. We had a lot of fun!