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Category Archives: Nature photos
Poetry Friday–NaPoWriMo: Mourning Dove
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy National Poetry Month! I’m sharing a poem, art, and pics of a mourning dove that visited me this week in my backyard garden. Actually a pair visited, for quite a long time… I’m very … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2020, #PoetryFriday, Action, Art, birds, Christie Wyman, earth, environment, family, gardens, Humanity, JoAnn Balingit, Michelle Kogan, mourning dove, Narcissus, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, spring, Thanks, wings, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 1 -Feathered Friends
Happy National Poetry Writing Month #NaPoWriMo! Here’s a poem to lift your spirits, inspired by my early morning feathered friends! #Birds #Climateendangered #Poem MORNING WAKEUP CALL Cock a doodle doo rang out rooster’s rollicking call, Cherup, cherup, cherup, sang … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2020 Michelle Kogan, bird songs, cheer you up!, environment, family, feathers, friends, Humanity, music, people, poem, poems, poetry, Poets, reflections, robins, roosters, sparrows, Thanks, thoughts, wakeup call, wings, Writing
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Poetry Friday–”Relieving Anxiety”
Happy Poetry Friday! Our small world has gotten much smaller and much scarier over the last few months. Coping and taking care of ourselves and those close to us are very important. Along with this are ways to relieve stress. … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Pencil Drawing, Poem
Tagged "Relieving Anxiety", Action, animals, Art, Compassion, empathy, environment, Hatari, Humanity, Justice, love, Matt, Matt Forrest Esenwine, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan #Poetry Friday, music, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, silliness, thoughts, Truth, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Winter Poem Swap & #natember December Nature
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m very happy this week to share Joyce Ray’s treasure-filled Winter Poem Swap. In our poems and gifts to each other, ours thoughts both seemed to draw from historical spiritual, and social justice callings. The little poem books, … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #haikuforjustice, #haikuforkindness, #hakuforhope, #natember, #PoetryFriday, #WinterPoemSwap, Art, books, Emily Dickinson, environment, Holidays, Joyce Ray, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, photos, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Tabatha Yeatts
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Poetry Friday–Nature and December #natember
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m writing nature haikus for December and am tagging them #natember. Linda Baie and Jean LaTourette are also writing them this month, join us. A few other haiku hashtags for December by Jone MacCulloch and Mary Lee … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, environment, Humanity, Jean LaTourette, Jone MacCulloch, Linda Baie, Liz Steinglass, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, music, nature #natember, photos, poems, Ponder, reflections, Tanita S. Davis, thoughts
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Poetry Friday–Soaking in Summer’s End…
Happy Poetry Friday! My daughter and I took a rendezvous to the Indiana Dunes National Park last Saturday. We lounged by the lake’s edge and then took a hike up the tallest Dune in the area Mount Tom, named … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Trips, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, earth, environment, family, Flowers, Humanity, Indiana Dunes National Park, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, photography, photos, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, thoughts, Tolleston Beach, towering waves, travel, Watercolor, Writing
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#Poetry Friday–New Poet Laureate & “Solstice Amis”
Happy Poetry Friday! I was happy to hear that Joy Harjo is our new United States Poet Laureate. Her life of being a multitalented artist–poet, musician, and playwright, and her poetry all speak to me resoundingly. I’m sharing one of … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, Writing
Tagged "Solstice Amis", 2019 New US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, A Word Edgewise, Action, animals, bees, chicago, earth, environment, family, friends, Garden pics, Help our Climate, Humanity, Joy Harjo, June, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, Monarch Caterpillars, people, photography, photos, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, Pollinators, Ponder, reflections, Summer Solstice, thoughts, Truth, wings, Women
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#NaPoWriMo day 17 & #internationalhaikuday
Inspired by my backyard bunny model… just bunny and me munching, scratching, munching winters dreams away… 2019 Michelle Kogan For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by art that I create or have created. Visit these … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #internationalhaikuday, #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, animals, Art, Bunnies, earth, environment, friends, McihelleKogan, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, spring, thoughts, Waiting, Writing
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Day 2 #NPM #NaPoWriMo–Junco’s & Haiku
junco waits… gray day fades with refreshing rainwater © 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 participate in National Poetry Month: Academy of … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Nature photos, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Art, birds, environment, Haiku, Junco, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Ponder, rainwater, reflections, wings
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