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Tag Archives: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Poetry Friday–Ekphrastic Dodoitsu Poems
SPRING’S PERENNIAL LOVE I’m here, awaiting your love leaves stretch-wide welcoming you,your overlooked blue crocus with blushed affections, xox © 2022 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! My post today is all about Ekphrastic Dodoitsu poems. It was offered as a … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Andromeda Jazmon, birds, crocus, Dodoitsu, ekphrastic, family, Flowers, Humor, Laura Purdie Salas, Liz Garton Scanlon, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, nature, Patricia Stohr-Hunt, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, robins, Sara Lewis Holmes, spring, Tanita S. Davis, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Winter Poem Swap & Solstice
Happy Poetry Friday! I received this lovely light filled package of poetry and gifts from my poet friend Carol Varsalona this last week. You wouldn’t know we were both running short on time from the treasures that were exchanged, and … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Buffy Silverman, Carol Varsalona, Cento poem, Gifts, Gratitude, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, Painting, poems, Poetry Friday, reflections, Tabatha Yeatts, Watercolor, Winter poem swap, Winter Solstice, Writing
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Poetry Friday–For Lee Bennett Hopkins, #DearOneLBH
Happy Poetry Friday! This week for Poetry Friday many of us have written poems for our Dear Poet Pied Piper Lee Bennett Hopkins, who we just lost. We have borrowed lines from his poems and then created a new poem … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "Jumping Off Library Shelves", "Story", "Storyteller", #DearOneLBH, #NPM, #PoetryFriday, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, books, Children's Poetry, imagination, Jone Rush Macculloch, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Michelle Kogan, Reading
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#Poetry Friday–#NaPoWriMo & Earth Day
Purple Onion Plant and Peonies, WIP, © 2019 Michelle Kogan,watercolor and watercolor pencil. Happy Poetry Friday! I like to ponder on about our earth everyday, so I’m beginning my celebration of Earth Day today… Happy Earth Day and National … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Art, earth, earth day, environment, Michelle Kogan, Painting, Peonies, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, thoughts, Triolet poem, Watercolor, WIP, Writing
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