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"Tentatively Certain"
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Read my poem: "Ode to Spring Soil."
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Poetry Friday– Poem Notebook Surfing & Hellebores
rosey helleboressoothe US daily terrors,compassion amiss © 2026 Michelle Kogan, draft My haiku reflects on the shooting of Renee Nicole Good. Happy Poetry Friday! I did some notebook surfing to complete my poem below, TOGETHER. I often have poems in … Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #art exhibit, #artist, #compassion, #haiku, #Hellebores, #MichelleKogan, #Nature, #naturelovers, #OLW, #Pause, #poet, #Poetry, #PoetryFriday, #reflections, #RuthBowenHersey, #together, #Writer, #Zeno
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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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Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 