Category Archives: Haiku

Poetry Friday–Good morning Haikus

Happy Poetry Friday & Happy June! Take a morning peek into my garden… good morningrose bud bursts—your spirit’scontagious!© 2023 Michelle Kogan, draft good morningmorning glories—you liftaway all worries© 2023 Michelle Kogan, draft good morningjacob’s ladder, your petals wisp like fairy … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday-May Earthiness…

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with a wee short post, as I’m still helping my mom pack, 6 days left before the move… robin, catbirdearth tilled joy— poke, prod—um, yumgarden solace pride. ©2023 Michelle Kogan, draft Janice Scully at her … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday–Mother’s Day

Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Mother’s Day! Still busy and filled-to-the-gills, so popping in with a 4 x 4 poem and brief Mother’s Day post for all feathered and unfeathered Mom’s all around… FEATHERED MAMA’S Flutter–fly–by Omnipresent On ground and … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday–#PocketPoem & Pablo Neruda Challenge

Happy Poetry Friday & Happy National Poetry Month! I’m sharing my poem from Thursday’s Poem in Your Pocket Day, and my DIY process for it. I folded my poem into a kinda flower to keep it safe in my pocket, … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday—Sky Nesting and Thanks!

Happy Poetry Friday, Happy Poetry Month, and Happy Sky Nestings SPRING RITUAL Birds are building nests everywhere… Sparrows, Robins, Cardinals, and high above a pair of Cooper’s Hawkscontemplate their next move… Eh eh commence spring nest building look up into … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday-Spring Gardens & Poems by Women

Happy Poetry Friday & Happy Spring! It’s still cold here in Chicago, but hey the helleborus is starting to bloom and every once in a while the sun shines and warms us inside, so I’m sending my appreciations to Mother … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday–Emerging Spring

EMERGING CHANGE Happy Poetry Friday! I watch and wait as spring shares her signs, and doves persist… EMERGING CHANGE Paper whites push up through softened, squishy soil Over-winter leaves linger and await waiting soil-ready hands Statuesque garden beauty earthen-world or … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday–Sparrowing and Reflections…

rooftop sparrowing in february sketch me if you can… © 2023 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! The sparrows have been singing to me in the morning, maybe they know spring is coming… Or maybe they just want me to do … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday-Mid Winter

Happy Poetry Friday! Here we are smack dab in the middle of another midwestern Chicago Winter…I’m sharing a Mid Winter poem and some music to soothe whatever can use soothing, and shoo away any February blues. MID WINTER… Wars raging … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday– Box-4×4 Poem Prompt

Happy Poetry Friday! My two poems below come from the Poetry Sisters prompt to write a poem that has something to do with a “box.” I chose to write 4 x 4 poems, they have:– 4 stanzas– 4 syllables per … Continue reading

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