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#PoetryFriday–#SPRING!
Happy Poetry Friday I’m Celebrating Spring and spreading around thoughts to encourage all our plants to come up out of the ground! SPRINT TO SPRING Dandelion dancing to rags of Scott Joplin’s “Gladiola’s” in my Kick-up Cartwheel sprint to SPRING! … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, bird songs, birds, Children, Dandelions, earth, environment, family, Flowers, friends, Goofing Off Day, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading, Rebecca Herzog, Sloth Reads, spring, Tanka, thoughts, video, wings, Women, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–Strike for Global Climate Change!
Happy Poetry Friday! Today, March 15, 2019, Heidi Mordhorst is hosting the Poetry Friday Round Up, at her blog my juicy little universe. Heidi asked us to create poems and posts promoting the Climate Strike that is happening around the world in … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged ##fridays4futrue, #climatestrike, #GreenNewDeal, #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, Carbon Capturing, Children, Denise Levertov, earth, environment, family, friends, Global Climate Change, Greta Thunberg, Heidi Mordhorst, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, people, poems, poetry, reflections, Strike, sun, thoughts, Women, Writing
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#PoetryFriday: Sparrows, Spring, & Music
we’re windowpane sparrows pining for spring it’s coming, be patient… pop by each afternoon, come out, take a peak, commune with nature–a natural treat… © 2019 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! Linda Baie at her blog TeacherDance is our hostess … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Picture Book Sketches, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "White Bird", #PoetryFriday, Art, Christie Wyman, doves, environment, Humanity, Linda Baie, Michelle Kogan, music, patience, poems, poetry, reflections, sparrows, spring, Teacher Dance, thoughts, Watercolor, Wondering and Wondering, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–iPad haikus & art
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been playing this week on my newly acquired iPad. I won it recently when I resubscribed to my local public radio station. I’m planning on using it mostly to connect up with my computer to do … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, Art, bees, Bulbs, environment, Haiku, imagination, iPad Poetry, iPad sketches, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sailing, spring, squirrels, thoughts, travel, Waiting, water, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–Healing Valentine’s
Happy Poetry Friday I’ve been writing Valentine haikus this week thinking about all the children and other individuals that have been lost this last year from gun violence. I heard a radio interview from one of the survivors … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, books, Children, environment, family, Flowers, Gun violence, Healing Valentine's, Humanity, Jone MacCulloch, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, Remembering lives lost, thoughts, valentines day, Women, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Groundhog & Paradise…
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Groundhog Day! The snow and cold is getting to be a bit much even for our friendly critter the groundhog. Last I heard he was ready to up and move his growing family to… … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "WHAT THE WATERS KNOW", #PoetryFriday, Birds of Paradise, cold, dream, groundhog, Groundhog Day, Michelle Kogan, nature, Paradise, Sam Hamill, snow, Tabatha Yeatts, winter
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Poetry Friday–12 Days of Christmas
Happy Poetry Friday Last week I finished up Julie Hedlund’s 12 days of Christmas Challenge–it started on December 26th and ran through January 6, 2019. It’s a Facebook group that she’s been offering writer’s for the last four years, to … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Trips, Writing
Tagged #haikuforhope, #MoPoetry2019, #PoetryFriday, 12 Days of Christmas, Art, chicago, Garfield Park Conservatory, Haibun, Haiku, Julie Hedlund, Kat Apel, Mary Lee Hahn, Mchelle Kogan, Painting, pen, poems writing, reflections, sketches, Watercolor
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Poetry Friday–one little word & #haikuforhope
Happy Poetry Friday And Happy New Year! I found a word I’m going to embrace this year, as my #OLW (one little word…) Ponder… I came to it after discarding a couple other words. I tried on wait, though, even … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #haikuforhope, #PoetryFriday, Michelle Kogan, one little word, Ponder
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