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Read my Monarch and Swallowtail butterfly poems 
Read my poems about
Monarch Butterflies-
Read my nature
poems and view my nature pics.
Read my poem, "Night Journey" 
Read my poem,
"Tentatively Certain"
Read my poem, "Temptations."
Read my poem, "Mom's Beauty."
Read my poem, "Toady." I also created the cover art.
Read my poem: "Ode to Spring Soil."
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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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Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 