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Tag Archives: gardens
Poetry Friday-May Earthiness…
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with a wee short post, as I’m still helping my mom pack, 6 days left before the move… robin, catbirdearth tilled joy— poke, prod—um, yumgarden solace pride. ©2023 Michelle Kogan, draft Janice Scully at her … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Nature, #Naturelover, #Poetry Friday, Catbird, gardens, Janice Scully, May 2023, Michelle Kogan, nature, poem, poems, poetry, Pride, reflections, Robin, Salt City Verse, Solace, Writing
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Poetry Friday-Spring Gardens & Poems by Women
Happy Poetry Friday & Happy Spring! It’s still cold here in Chicago, but hey the helleborus is starting to bloom and every once in a while the sun shines and warms us inside, so I’m sending my appreciations to Mother … Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged Anne Bradstreet, Art, artist, gardens, Helleborus, March, Michelle Kogan, nature, Pen and Ink, Poems by Women, Poet, poetry, Poetry Friday, Regan Good, Rose Cappelli, Sarah Audsley, spring, Triolet, Watercolor Painting, WIP, Women's History Month, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Garden Moonpower Buds
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m continuing to think about spring and all things connected with it… Here’s some moon and sun inspired music… Laura Purdie Salas at her blog Small Reads for Brighter Days is hosting this week’s Poetry Friday roundup, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged # Poetry Friday, Flowers, Gardeners, gardens, Laura Purdie Salas, Michelle Kogan, Moonlight benefits plants, Moonpower, nature, poems, Poet, reflections, Small Reads for Brighter Days, Spring Blooms, Spring Buds, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Dansa Poem & New Holiday Card
Garden of the Phoenix, Hyde Park, © 2022 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I’m giving Fall a farewell goodby hug as our temps drop over the next few days into the 30’s and then 20’s… My image is from the … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Garden of the Phoenix", "Nature's golden ripples rise above political mayhem", "Robin Hydrangea and Hawthorne Berries", Art, artist, Buffy Silverman, Dansa Poem, Etsy Shop, fall, Flowers, gardens, Holiday Cards, Kintsugi, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, nature, Painting, Poet, Robin, Solace, Urban Gardens, Watercolor, Writer
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Poetry Friday–Hummingbird
Happy Poetry Friday! I caught a few moments of a lovely female ruby-throated hummingbird while painting outside last week… Ruby-throated hummingbird hovers by my sidewith windmill-wingsand inquisitive eyes, eyes that gaze into minewithout a wink, in steady linetill body side-juts … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, Art, care, Emily Dickinson, gardens, Michelle Kogan, nature, Observe, Plein Air, poems, Poet, poetry, reflections, Ruby-throated hummingbird, September, Slow down, Writing
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Poetry Friday—Poetry & More…
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Women’s History Month! In honor of Women’s History Month, I’m sharing a golden shovel poem built from Margarita Engle’s prose piece, The Care and Feeding of Poetry, that’s featured in this months Poetry Foundation’s, Poetry … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Poetry, #PoetryFriday, #Spring Sprouts, #Women's History Month, buds, Bunnies, Easter Cards, eggs, Flowers, gardens, Kathryn Apel, Margarita Engle, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Passover Cards, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Magazine, Pollinate, spring, Tulips
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Poetry Friday-Winter Poem Swap
Happy Poetry Friday I’m sharing a Winter Poem Swap gift and poem, from the collage artist extraordinaire Linda Mitchell. Linda has grown a garden for me chock full of words and nested in a collaged seed packet; a collaged bookmark–complete … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, "Poem Seeds", "Secrets of my Exploring", 2020 Holiday Poem Swap, Collaging, Exploring, Found Poems, gardens, Irene Latham, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, Tabatha Yeatts, Thanks, The Planets by Gustav Holst
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Poetry Friday–NaPoWriMo: Mourning Dove
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy National Poetry Month! I’m sharing a poem, art, and pics of a mourning dove that visited me this week in my backyard garden. Actually a pair visited, for quite a long time… I’m very … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2020, #PoetryFriday, Action, Art, birds, Christie Wyman, earth, environment, family, gardens, Humanity, JoAnn Balingit, Michelle Kogan, mourning dove, Narcissus, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, spring, Thanks, wings, Writing
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