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Tag Archives: environment
#PoetryFriday–#SPRING!
Happy Poetry Friday I’m Celebrating Spring and spreading around thoughts to encourage all our plants to come up out of the ground! SPRINT TO SPRING Dandelion dancing to rags of Scott Joplin’s “Gladiola’s” in my Kick-up Cartwheel sprint to SPRING! … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, bird songs, birds, Children, Dandelions, earth, environment, family, Flowers, friends, Goofing Off Day, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading, Rebecca Herzog, Sloth Reads, spring, Tanka, thoughts, video, wings, Women, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–Strike for Global Climate Change!
Happy Poetry Friday! Today, March 15, 2019, Heidi Mordhorst is hosting the Poetry Friday Round Up, at her blog my juicy little universe. Heidi asked us to create poems and posts promoting the Climate Strike that is happening around the world in … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged ##fridays4futrue, #climatestrike, #GreenNewDeal, #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, Carbon Capturing, Children, Denise Levertov, earth, environment, family, friends, Global Climate Change, Greta Thunberg, Heidi Mordhorst, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, people, poems, poetry, reflections, Strike, sun, thoughts, Women, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–#InternationalWomen’sDay, #schoolstrike4climate
5 Monarchs, Milkweed, and Bees, © 2019 Michelle Kogan, Detail, WIP, oil. Happy Poetry Friday and International Women’s Day! My post this week is in response to a poetry prompt from our Poetry Friday host, Catherine Wallian Flynn, at Reading to … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #climatestrike, #fridays4future, #PoetryFriday, #schoolstrike4climate, Act, Aka Niviâna, Art, Catherine Wallian Flynn, earth, environment, family, Global Climate Change, Greta Thunberg, Humanity, Kathy Jetnel-Kijiner, Michelle Kogan, people, poems, poetry, reflections
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#PoetryFriday: Sparrows, Spring, & Music
we’re windowpane sparrows pining for spring it’s coming, be patient… pop by each afternoon, come out, take a peak, commune with nature–a natural treat… © 2019 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! Linda Baie at her blog TeacherDance is our hostess … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Picture Book Sketches, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "White Bird", #PoetryFriday, Art, Christie Wyman, doves, environment, Humanity, Linda Baie, Michelle Kogan, music, patience, poems, poetry, reflections, sparrows, spring, Teacher Dance, thoughts, Watercolor, Wondering and Wondering, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–iPad haikus & art
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been playing this week on my newly acquired iPad. I won it recently when I resubscribed to my local public radio station. I’m planning on using it mostly to connect up with my computer to do … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, Art, bees, Bulbs, environment, Haiku, imagination, iPad Poetry, iPad sketches, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sailing, spring, squirrels, thoughts, travel, Waiting, water, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–Healing Valentine’s
Happy Poetry Friday I’ve been writing Valentine haikus this week thinking about all the children and other individuals that have been lost this last year from gun violence. I heard a radio interview from one of the survivors … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, books, Children, environment, family, Flowers, Gun violence, Healing Valentine's, Humanity, Jone MacCulloch, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, Remembering lives lost, thoughts, valentines day, Women, Writing
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