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Category Archives: Nature
Poetry Friday: Peonies
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been patiently waiting for the weather to warm. The flowering plants are waiting too… I’m sharing a dizain poem and painting about my peonies and their journey this spring. I learned about the dizain from Molly … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged Art, chicago, Dizain, earth, Flowers, Michelle Kogan, Painting, Peonies, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, Ponder, reflections, spring, sun, Waiting, Writing
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#Poetry Friday–Fleur de vigne
I’m dreaming about summer flowers and sunshine… LOST BUT FOUND Fleur de vigne went through the wash umpteen-some times shriveled email rescued at last contact reclaimed anecdote note photo those scraps else they’ll fade away… ©2019 Michelle Kogan Happy … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged Art, environment, Flowers, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, lilies, Lost But Found, Michelle Kogan, Painting, poems poetry, Poetry Friday, reflections, summer, sun, sunshine, thoughts
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#NaPoWriMo Day 30, #watercolor
A DAY WITHOUT POETRY Splash of color ripple of chords taste of beauty– Adieu to you Dear poetry month, see you soon, as a day without poetry will never do… © 2019 Michelle Kogan For National Poetry … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Art, Chorsd, color, Flowers, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, music, Painting, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, spring, thoughts, Watercolor, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo Day 29 #haiku & recycled #WIP due to time shortage…
hey mother nature us birds and flowers are here, don’t ya know it’s spring… © 2019 Michelle Kogan For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by art that I create or have created. Visit these spots on line to … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, animals, birds, earth, environment, Flowers, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, mother nature, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, spring, sun, thoughts, Truth, wings, Writing
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#Poetry Friday–Spring Flowers & Decisions
Red Rose, Carnation, Calla Lily, and Hummingbird, WIP, © 2019 Michelle Kogan, watercolor and watercolor pencil. Happy Poetry Friday! I shared a cherita poem this week for #NaPoWriMo and a WIP Painting. As I continued working on the painting I … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, Action, American Poets, Art, Carol Varsalona, Children, Cohabitate cordially, earth, environment, family, Flowers, getting along, Humanity, hummingbirds, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Kim Dower, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poems, Poetry and the Environment, Poetry Foundation, Ponder, reflections, sun, thoughts, Truth, Waiting, Watercolor, wings, WIP, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo Day 22: Happy #EarthDay!
earth day seagulls, keow they say, every days earth day! © Michelle Kogan For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by art that I create or have created. Visit these spots on line to participate in National Poetry Month: … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #Earth Day 2019, #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Action, animals, Art, birds, Children, earth, environment, family, Haiku, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Seagulls, spirit, thoughts, wings, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo 2019, Day 20, #foundpoem
Created from Poetry books on display at my Chicago Public Library branch. ANIMAL POEMS Out of wonder the frogs wore red suspenders, swirl by swirl, spirals in nature, jabber walking, feel the beat… © 2019 Michelle Kogan … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Picture Book, Poem, Writing
Tagged #Found Poem, #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, by Kristi Valiant, by Marilyn Singer, Chris Colderly, Ekua Holme, Jack Prelutsky, Joyce Sidman, Juan Felipe Herrera, Kwame Alexander, Marjory Wentworth, Michelle Kogan, Petra Mathers, Poetry Books, Steve Jenkins, Valerie Worth
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