Category Archives: Plein Air Art

Poetry Friday–Mother’s Day

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Mother’s Day! Still busy and filled-to-the-gills, so popping in with a 4 x 4 poem and brief Mother’s Day post for all feathered and unfeathered Mom’s all around… FEATHERED MAMA’S Flutter–fly–by Omnipresent On ground and … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–Welcome May & New Card

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday & Happy May! MAY GRATITUDE & MARVELS Gazing up through my window pillowous clouds merge into shape-shifting form… Patches of light washed cerulean blue sky excite me with goose-bumpy wonder… And spring’s young greengold leaves and ochreish … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–#PocketPoem & Pablo Neruda Challenge

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday & Happy National Poetry Month! I’m sharing my poem from Thursday’s Poem in Your Pocket Day, and my DIY process for it. I folded my poem into a kinda flower to keep it safe in my pocket, … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–Passover & Poet Adah Isaacs Menken

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Happy National Poetry Month! Happy Passover! I gave myself a tall order in this short poem… to spin out the Passover story in a short etheree. PASSOVER PRAYER-STORY Green grows out of earth, thoughts ponder rebirth, renewal. Though … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–Emerging Spring

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

EMERGING CHANGE Happy Poetry Friday! I watch and wait as spring shares her signs, and doves persist… EMERGING CHANGE Paper whites push up through softened, squishy soil Over-winter leaves linger and await waiting soil-ready hands Statuesque garden beauty earthen-world or … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–Ekphrastic Challenge

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Thanks again Poetry Sisters, Laura, Tanita, Mary Lee, Liz, Kelly, Tricia, Sara, and Andi for your prompt this month to write an ekphrastic poem. Find more of these poems tagged with #PoetryPals. My poem also comes from a prompt by Carol Varsalona who provided us … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #poetrypals, Art, Dazzling light, Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Khruangbin Ekphrastic poem, Michelle Kogan, music, nature, Painting, Pantoum, poem, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, Poetry Sisters, reflections, Writing | 14 Comments

Poetry Friday–New Year, New Book, New Card!

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing a New poem celebrating the Year of the Rabbit, a New Anthology Book I’m in, and a New Valentine’s Card. LUNAR SOLAR Lunisolar year of the rabbit year of the cat celebrate the animals in … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday—Folktale Week Poem

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Fall Leaves card, © 2015, Michelle Kogan, pen and ink and watercolor, available in my online Etsy Shop: Michelle Kogan Fine Art Happy Poetry Friday! I decided to pick up the prompt that was created by Linda Mitchell, on her … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–Quick Fall Post…

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday & Happy Fall Stopping in quickly to wish all a Happy Fall! It’s been a busy week and another ahead of me– Something new is brewing… I’ll fill you in on the why’s perhaps next week…But for … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–Hummingbird

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I caught a few moments of a lovely female ruby-throated hummingbird while painting outside last week… Ruby-throated hummingbird hovers by my sidewith windmill-wingsand inquisitive eyes, eyes that gaze into minewithout a wink, in steady linetill body side-juts … Continue reading →