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Poetry Friday–Youth Climate Strike
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m joining the #ChicagoYouthClimateStrike, tomorrow, Friday 9-20-2019. Here’s my poster that has a poem I wrote for the march and rally. GOOD CLIMATE Trees and bees, Monarchs and seas Children’s needs Need: Good climate Good … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #ChicagoYouthClimateStrike, #PoetryFriday, Action, air, animals, bees, Charles Waters, Children, Climate Strike, earth, environment, family, friends, gardens, Good Climate, Humanity, Irene Latham, Linda Baie, March, Mehrdokht Amini, Michelle Kogan, Monarchs, nature, people, poems, poetry, reflections, Seeds, soil, Students, sun, thoughts, trees, Waiting, water, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Naomi Shihab Nye– “Kindness” & Nature
Milkweed, Hollyhock, Monarchs, Bee, and Dragonfly, © 2016 Michelle Kogan, watercolor and watercolor pencil. Happy Poetry Friday! Our Host this week is Mary Lee Hahn. Mary Lee is celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye–and asked us all to join in. I took … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, Children, earth, environment, family, Flowers, gardens, Humanity, inalienable rights, kindness, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Monarchs, mother nature, Naomi Shihab Nye, nature, people, poems, poetry, reflections, thoughts, Waiting, wings, Women
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#Inktober day 17 letter “J” & haiku
garden jamble jungle vines autumns jumbling by… © 2018 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #inktober, Art, autumn, earth, environment, fall, gardens, Haiku, Inktober 2018, jungle vines, Michelle Kogan, pen sketch, poems, poetry, reflections, sketch, thoughts, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Butterflies and Bees
Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome to my backyard … I’ve been in awe at the number of monarchs I have visiting in my garden this summer. There are sometimes five fluttering around at the same time. I’m sharing the path of … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, backyards, bees, butterflies, chicago, Emily Dickinson, gardens, Heidi Mordhorst, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Monarchs, oils, Painting, poems, poetry, Pollinators, WIP
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Poetry Friday: Bookmarks
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m celebrating books and bookmarks today, just because I love both and because I have a bevy of bookmark offerings in my online Etsy shop that would love to meet up with one of your books at, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged birds, Bookmarks, books, Fairies, Flowers, gardens, Goddesses, insects, Koi, Michelle Kogan, Monarchs, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, Reading, summer, wildflowers
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#NaPoWriMo day 28 haiku and WIP fairy sketch
rise primrose despite spring’s despicable chill © 2018 Michelle Kogan On my blog for National Poetry Writing Month I’ve been focusing on flora, fauna, and our environment. Here’s a list of the poems I’ve posted so far: Poem one– … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2018, #National Poetry Month 2018, April fairy, Art, Children's Illustration, Cold Spring, Fairies, family, gardens, Haiku, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Primrose, spring, Waiting, wings
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#Inktober day 5 & okra haiku
OKRA PATIENCE okra we waited together patiently all summer long … © 2017 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #inktober, #Inktober2017, Art, backyard gardens, gardens, Haiku, Michelle Kogan, Okra, patience, pen, poem, poetry, sketchbooks, wings, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Poems form poems
I’m sharing two beautiful poems I received last week from Tabatha Yeatts, for the Summer Poetry Sway. Tabatha shared with me May Sarton’s poem, The Work of Happiness. She then wrote Fellowship, an ekphrastic golden shovel using the painting I did … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Writing
Tagged "Pollen", "The Work of Happiness", #PoetryFriday, #SummerPoetrySwap, Blessings, Ekphrastic Poem, Fellowship, gardens, Golden Shovel Poem, Happiness, May Sarton, Michelle Kogan, Naomi Shihab Nye, Painting, Poetry Foundation, Tabatha Yeatts, Turn Inward and Grow Blessings
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Poetry Friday & #NaPoWriMo Nature
Speak for Nature Who will speak for nature? In spring when all is renewed, reborn, buds unfolding, magically coming to life, soil oozing over your shoes, filled with nutrients–All kinds of crawlers and creepers enriching our plants, robins calling back … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, #WorldWatercolorGroup, Art, drawing, gardens, Growth, Michelle Kogan, NaPoWriMo, nature, Painting, Pens, Plein Air, spring, Watercolor
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Poetry Friday-haiku and sketch
can you hear the birds february’s songbirds, they’re chattering, they’re here. © 2017 Michelle Kogan Thanks Penny Parker Klosterman for hosting Poetry Friday today, visit her blog for more Poetry Friday poems at:pennyklostermann.com
Posted in Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged animals, Art, brush pen, february, gardens, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, Songbirds, Watercolor, winter, winter gardens, Writing
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