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Category Archives: Haiku
Poetry Friday–One Little Word…
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m uncovering my OLW (one little word)…I think I skipped picking a word last year, I had a list but the word and I never came together. This year there were a couple in the corral for … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, Discover, haiku, LIne, Michelle Kogan, nature, one little word, Painting, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, Tabatha Yeatts, Watercolor, wordplay, Writing
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Poetry Friday—Winter
Happy Poetry Friday! IN WINTER In winter Calm crawls in between bitter cold banks of blustery snow howling fierce winds and winter blankets all. In winter Majesty musters in ponders profundity appears uncannily between sandpaper dry air and stands on … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, birds, IN WINTER, Mary Lee Hahn, Mary Oliver, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, Pen and Ink, poems, poetry, reflections, Watercolor, White-eyed vireo, Wintering milkweed, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Tent Parks…
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been thinking about folks living inside these Tents as they’ve been appearing around Chicago… RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE… As cold creeps in I’ve thought more and more about folks in my neighborhood Tent Park. They popped … Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged Amaryllis, Blooming Flowers, Cathy Mere, Homeless Encampments, Homelessness, inalienable rights, Merely Day By Day, Michelle Kogan, Poetry Friday, Tent Parks, winter
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Poetry Friday Roundup is Here & Celebrating Holidaze!
Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome to my Holidaze Poetry Friday Roundup! Please add your links for this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup below with Mister Linky. Hanukkah began this week and more winter Holidays are quickly approaching. I’m sharing a poem and … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday Roundup, #Poetry Friday Roundup is here!, Art, Christmas, Etsy Shop, Evanston Art Center Winter Arts & Crafts Expo, Hanukkah, Hanukkah 2021, Holiday Cards, Holiday Cheer!, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, nature, poetry, winter, Winter Holidays
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Poetry Friday–ODE TO AUTUMN
Happy Poetry Friday On the heels of Thanksgiving I have an ODE TO AUTUMN poem, offered to us as a prompt by the Poetry Sisters’. And what a grand prompt this was in our month of giving thanks, to offer … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, #poetrypals, Art, autumn, fall leaves, Laura Shovan, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, nature, ODE TO AUTUMN, Odes, poems, poetry, Poetry Sisters', reflections, Ruth Bowen Hersey, Ruth Hersey, Tricube, Writing
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Poetry Friday–ZYGO-WONDER, poem & painting
Happy Poetry Friday! My beautiful zygocactus begged me to take a break this week and capture her in color and words… The little elf on my shoulder kept whispering in my ear, you have new holiday cards to post, and … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, Bearded Iris Fall, beauty, Beyond Literacy Link, Carol Varsalona, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, nature, Plummeting temps Chicago, poem, poetry, reflections, Watercolor, Zygocactus
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Poetry Friday–Fall Surprise… Haikus
Happy Poetry Friday! november backyardbearded surprise, but will youbloom in time… © 2021 Michelle Kogan And look here comes color… but I don’t know if she will open because snow is coming too…Oh by the way, she didn’t bloom in … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #throughwindowku, Art, autumn, Bearded Iris, fall, Gratitude, haiku, Matt Forrest Esenwine, Michelle Kogan, mourning doves, nature, November, poems, poetry, Radio Rhythm Rhyme, reflections, Surprises, Watching Falling leaves, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Holiday Lights & “This Photo Wants to be…”
hanukkah lights spreadglowing warmth, like familyleaning in for hugs © 2021 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with a couple short poems today as I’m busy preparing for a Holiday Show, the Evanston Art Center’s 19th Annual Winter Arts … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #COP26, #PoetryFriday, A(nother) Year of Reading, Hanukkah, Hanukkah 2021, Hanukkah Greeting Cards, International Climate Conference 2021, Margaret Simon, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, Reflections on the teche, This Photo Wants To Be A Poem
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Poetry Friday—#Birdtober: American Woodcock
Happy Poetry Friday! Well I’m down to doing about one or two #Birdtober, #Inktober art/poems per week. Teaching, prepping for a holiday show, and life in general is only allowing me to squeeze in a few—but I’m having so much … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #American Woodcock, #Birdtober, #inktober, #kidlitart, #PoetryFriday, @aholmesartstudio, artist, birds, Haiku, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Michelle Kogan, nature, Pen and Ink, Poet
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Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 