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Read my poem, "Mom's Beauty."
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Read my poem: "Ode to Spring Soil."
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Category Archives: Haiku
Poetry Friday–Celebrate Literacy Day with DICTIONARY FOR A BETTER WORLD
Happy Poetry Friday! International Literacy Day is coming up on Tuesday, September 8th. What better way to begin celebrating it than with a wonderful book… I offer you DICTIONARY FOR A BETTER WORLD POEMS, QUOTES, AND ANECDOTES FROM A TO … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Picture Book, Poem, Writing
Tagged #International Literacy Day 2020, #PoetryFriday, Action, Beyond Literacy Link, Carol Varsalona, change, Charles Waters, Covid19, DICTIONARY FOR A BETTER WORLD, Irene Latham, Mehrdokht Amini, Michelle Kogan, poetry, Poets, Voice, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Rosh Hashanah Card & Twister Poems
Happy Poetry Friday! Well I don’t know about you, but I don’t really know where the summer escaped too… I’m never really ready to let go of summer, even though I love fall. Summer feels fanciful, whimsical, and magical to … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, Art, Aurora Borealis, Chicago's tornado, earth, fall, family, Harvest, Holidays, Humanity, Jewish New Year, life, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan's Etsy Shop, Molly Hogan, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Rosh Hashanah, Rosh Hashanah Cards, summer, Tabatha Yeatts, Thanks, thoughts, travel, Twister, Waiting, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Poetry Mix & Flowers
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Picture Book, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged "See all colors fairly", #PoetryFriday, Anticipation, Art, Bookseedstudio, dance, Dreams, earth, environment, family, FLOAT, Flowers, friends, Hollyhocks, Humanity, Indigenous rights, Jan G Annino, life, Michelle Kogan, Outcomes, people, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, thoughts, travel, Waiting, Writing
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Poetry Friday: Lollipop… & Moon
Happy Poetry Friday! Sharing some of my front yard tulips that were begging to be seen… lollipop tulips lollygagging mid may’s day away… © 2020 Michelle Kogan And a poem that Dear Moon asked me to write… DEAR MOON … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "Lollipop Tulips", #PoetryFriday, Art, environment, family, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, Missing you…, moon, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Thanks, travel, Tulips, Waiting, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Women & Spring leaves art activity
wash your thoughts in spring’s greens, while remembering we are one of many… © 2020 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum had an interesting post on lichens and leaves and they talked about the naturalist … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged "An American Sunrise", "Pandemic Prayer", #PoetryFriday, Academy of American Poets, Art, Art Activity, Elizabeth Emerson Atwater, environment, family, friends, Humanity, Joy Harjo, Michelle Kogan, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Rubbed leaves, Students, Tabatha Yeatts, Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference, Thanks, thoughts, Truth
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