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Poetry Friday–Light Hope & Peace Prompt
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m joining the Poetry Sisters’ prompt for the month of December, the challenge was to compose a poem containing Light Hope and Peace. Thanks to all the Poetry Sisters’ for the prompt, be sure to stop by … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #artist, #Chicago, #Hope, #Light, #MichelleKogan, #MIlkweed, #Nature, #naturelovers, #Onelittleword, #Pause, #Peace, #Penandink, #PleinAir, #poet, #poetrypals, #Ponder, #seeds, #sketches, #watercolorpainting, #Winter, #Writer, Tricia Stohr-Hunt
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Poetry Friday—”Poem to Remind Myself of…”
I’m joining Susan Thomsen in her poem prompt this week, where we are writing from Donika Kelly’s poem, “Poem to Remind Myself of the” Natural Order of Things”as a mentor poem. However I took some liberties with another area, which … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #artist, #Carol Labuzzetta, #Chicago, #ICE, #Justice, #Mentorpoems, #Nature, #poet, #PoetryFriday, #reflections, #Susan Thomsen, #Whistles, #Writer, MichelleKogan
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Poetry Friday–Time
Coming in with a short poem, reflecting on elusive time… Talented poet and author Laura Purdie Salas, at her blog is hosting this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup, thanks Laura! She shared that her new book, Flurry, Float, and Fly! is … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #artist, #Chicago, #MichelleKogan, #Nature, #Naturelover, #Pause, #Play, #poet, #PoetryFriday, #reflections, #Time, #Writer
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Poetry Friday—Burning Haibun: Birds
Happy Poetry Friday! I took a break this week from the political mayhem din, and attempted to write a Burning Haibun poem. The prompt for this came from the Poetry Sisters for their October challenge. And this was quite a … Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Halloween, Holidays, Home, Nature
Tagged #artist, #Birds, #BurningHaibun, #Chicago, #ChicagoArtist, #compassion, #crows, #Drawing, #EndangeredBirds, #feathers, #helpbirds, #helpearth, #helphumanity, #Humanity, #Inktober2025, #memory, #MichelleKogan, #Nature, #naturelovers, #painting, #Penandink, #poem, #poet, #PoetryFriday, #poetrypals, #reflections, #songbirds, #wings, #Writer, Jone Rush Macculloch
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Poetry Friday–”What’s Normal”
Do we have weeks that aren’t crazy any more… I’m not accepting all going on as normal, hence I attended the No Kings March last weekend, and wrote a poem in reflection this week… WHAT’S NORMAL East wing teardownCongress at … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #artist, #authoritarian, #autocracy, #Chicago, #democracy, #Drawing, #Nature, #NoKingsMarch2025, #NoViolence, #Outofwork, #Patricia J. Franz, #Peaceful, #Pen&Ink, #poet, #PoetryFriday, #Protests, #rights, #stupor, #WhatsNormal, #Writer, Michelle Kogan
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Poetry Friday–Raise Consciousness
Dear Humanity,rally & raise consciousnessHERE in the U.S. © 2025 Michelle Kogan, draft Reflections on all happening… From the windy city that’s presently taking some unwanted, unneeded heat. Short post this week for I’m knee-deep in school work and more… … Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Home, poetry
Tagged #artist, #Chicago, #consciousness, #Drawing, #Epistlepoem, #haiku, #Humanity, #Inktober2025, #LindaBaie, #Penandink, #poet, #PoetryFriday, #raiseconsciousness, #TeacherDance, #US, #Writer, Michelle Kogan
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Poetry Friday–Feelings…
Happy Poetry Friday! These are some pics from the opening of the exhibit I am in: Feminist Responses in a Tumultuous Time Through October 31, 2025 Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines Campus If you are in the area, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #artist, #Chicago, #Feminist Response in a Tumultuous Time, #Inktober2025, #Nature, #painting, #poet, #PoetryFriday, #Resist, #Writer, 4x4 poem, Exhibit, Michelle Kogan
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Poetry Friday–Exhibit, Tritina Prompt, & Summer Poem Swap…
Happy Poetry Friday! My watercolor painting, She-Her-They-Them, Dragonfly, will be in the forthcoming exhibit:Feminist Responses in a Tumultuous TimeSeptember 30 – October 31, 2025 Public Reception: Tuesday, September 30, from 5 – 8 p.m. Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #art, #artist, #Chicago, #exhibit, #FeministResponsesinaTumultuousTime, #KoehnlineMuseumofArt, #Nature, #OaktonCollege, #poet, #PoetryFriday, #SheHerTheyThem, #TritinaPoem, #Writer, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Michelle Kogan
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Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 