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Poetry Friday–#NaPoWriMo Climate Endangered Bird
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy National Poetry Month! For National Poetry Month, I’m going to be focusing on nature and climate endangered birds, with poems and art. I’m following birds that Audubon has categorized as climate endangered or climate threatened, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, Audubon, birds, Climate endangers birds, earth, family, friends, Heidi Mordhorst, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, The Cornell Lab, thoughts, White Throated Sparrow, wings, WIP
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#NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 1 -Feathered Friends
Happy National Poetry Writing Month #NaPoWriMo! Here’s a poem to lift your spirits, inspired by my early morning feathered friends! #Birds #Climateendangered #Poem MORNING WAKEUP CALL Cock a doodle doo rang out rooster’s rollicking call, Cherup, cherup, cherup, sang … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2020 Michelle Kogan, bird songs, cheer you up!, environment, family, feathers, friends, Humanity, music, people, poem, poems, poetry, Poets, reflections, robins, roosters, sparrows, Thanks, thoughts, wakeup call, wings, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Women & Spring leaves art activity
wash your thoughts in spring’s greens, while remembering we are one of many… © 2020 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum had an interesting post on lichens and leaves and they talked about the naturalist … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged "An American Sunrise", "Pandemic Prayer", #PoetryFriday, Academy of American Poets, Art, Art Activity, Elizabeth Emerson Atwater, environment, family, friends, Humanity, Joy Harjo, Michelle Kogan, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Rubbed leaves, Students, Tabatha Yeatts, Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference, Thanks, thoughts, Truth
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Poetry Friday–Migratory Birds & Songs…
Happy Poetry Friday! This weekend we move into Day Light Savings time in the midwest, and welcome more hours of evening light. We are also welcoming all the spring migratory birds, some that stay till fall, and some that visit, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "Birds of Passage", "Carnival of the Animals, #PoetryFriday, American Redstart, animals, Art, bird songs, environment, family, Flowers, friends, Henry wadsworth Longfellow, Humanity, Hyacinths, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, Migratory birds, music, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, Rebecca Herzog, reflections, spirit, video, wings, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Snow, Birds, Valentine’s…
Happy Poetry Friday! Brrr, our temps are plummeting here in Chicago, but along with that we’ve received a lovely sprinkling of snow… windy, snowy, “brave irene” kinda day, with pine wiggling magic © 2020 Michelle Kogan I’m going to … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, Writing
Tagged Action, animals, Art, Audubon Society, Baird's Sandpiper, birds, chicago, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, earth, environment, family, Great Backyard Bird Count, Humanity, Linda Baie, Love Birds, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, snow, spirit, sun, thoughts, threatened species, Truth, valentines day
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Poetry Friday–#olw (one little word…)
Happy Poetry Friday! It took some pondering this year to come upon my one little word… last year’s #olw was pondering, and our journey together rewarding. Here’s a small list of words I considered: changes perseverance action metaphor humanity reflect … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #joy, #openyoureyes, #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, Breathe, Children, earth, environment, family, Humanity, Kathryn Apel, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, nature, people, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading, reflections, Robert Ertman, Ruthie Foster, spirit, Thanks, thoughts, Truth, Waiting, Wind, Winter poem swap, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Reflections…
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with a quick nonet poem and art influenced by our lack of light this morning… REFLECTIONS OF EERINESS Amber lamppost shines in light of day casting shadows of eeriness… Curtains of displease nod from … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #climatestrike, #PoetryFriday, Action, Art, Billie Holiday, Blue Moon, Climate action, earth, environment, family, friends, Humanity, Introspection, Michelle Kogan, music, nature, people, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reflection, thoughts, Truth, video, Women, Writing
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