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Tag Archives: Hanukkah
Poetry Friday–Dream Haiku & Holiday Cards
Happy Poetry Friday! I have a haiku to share from Margaret Simon’s post this week for This Photo Wants to be a Poem, thanks Margaret for the prompt! You can take a peek at the image by following the link, … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Trips, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, birds, Catherine Flynn, Christmas, Dreams, Hanukkah, Hawthorn Berries, heart, Holiday Gift Cards, Holidays, Hydrangea, Joy, love, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, Moonbeam, peace, Robin, snow, snowflakes, Snowperson, winter
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Poetry Friday Roundup is Here & Celebrating Holidaze!
Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome to my Holidaze Poetry Friday Roundup! Please add your links for this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup below with Mister Linky. Hanukkah began this week and more winter Holidays are quickly approaching. I’m sharing a poem and … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday Roundup, #Poetry Friday Roundup is here!, Art, Christmas, Etsy Shop, Evanston Art Center Winter Arts & Crafts Expo, Hanukkah, Hanukkah 2021, Holiday Cards, Holiday Cheer!, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, nature, poetry, winter, Winter Holidays
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Poetry Friday–Holiday Lights & “This Photo Wants to be…”
hanukkah lights spreadglowing warmth, like familyleaning in for hugs © 2021 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with a couple short poems today as I’m busy preparing for a Holiday Show, the Evanston Art Center’s 19th Annual Winter Arts … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #COP26, #PoetryFriday, A(nother) Year of Reading, Hanukkah, Hanukkah 2021, Hanukkah Greeting Cards, International Climate Conference 2021, Margaret Simon, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, Reflections on the teche, This Photo Wants To Be A Poem
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Poetry Friday–Hanukkah
HANUKKAH YOU’RE HERE… Hanukkah, your haloing glow creeps up on us each year… Sometimes early, sometimes late sometimes just right. You follow moon’s lunar calendar– But, most of us work-crazed creaturesfollow work-crazed Gregorian calendars. Here you are again early in … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #kidlitart, "The Feast of Lights", archival prints, Buffy Silverman, Children, Children's Illustration, Dreidels, Emma LAzarus, Etsy Shop, Freedom, Hanukkah, Hanukkah Boy Card, Hanukkah You're Here", Latke's, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Oil Lamp Menorah, Painting, Poetry Friday, Rebekah, Rebekah Lowin, Watercolor
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#PoetryFriday–Dad and #Inktober2019
Happy Poetry Friday! I have a few poems today, the first couple are for #Inktober2019, from this weeks prompts. In my first one I’m continuing our approaching holiday theme with the prompt word from Monday: treasure. TREASURE Find treasure… spinning … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Halloween, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, ancient, Constancy, dad, Dreidels, family, Ghost, gingko tree, Halloween, Hanukkah, Holidays, Judgement, Karen Edmisten, Michelle Kogan, Treasure, Trust
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Poetry Friday–Origin Poem WIP
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing my first Origin poem. It came out of a poetry workshop I was at a few weeks ago at the Poetry Foundation, here in Chicago. The workshop was on research and how poets incorporate … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged "Origin Poem Story Beginnings", Art, books, earth, family, friends, Grandfather, Hanukkah, Humanity, Liz Steinglass, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Poetry Foundation, reflections, Russia, sun, thoughts, travel, Ukraine, Writing
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A #Haikuforhealing for Hanukkah and all our winter holidays
light a lamp eight nights, illuminate freedom, peace, and understanding! © 2016 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Writing
Tagged Bears, Compassion, Freedom, haikuforhealing, Hanukkah, Holidays, love, Michelle Kogan, peace, Pen and Ink, Understanding, Watercolor, winter, Winter Holidays
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Rock’n Round the Hanukkah Table Holiday Contest Story
Rock’n round the Hanukkah table By Michelle Kogan © 2015 Rock’n round the Hanukkah table with the Holiday lights aglow. Moshe’s mouths munch’n mama’s latkes faster than she can pass ‘em round. Old Uncle Sam’s spinn’n the dreidel, ‘fore … Continue reading
Holiday Art, Greeting Cards and More…
Holiday Greetings! My Etsy Shop is filled with Holiday Greeting Cards, Gift Note Cards, Archival Prints and more… to take a peak visit: Michelle Kogan Fine Art And For all my friends in the Chicago area my Holiday Cards and … Continue reading
Posted in ACEO, Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Picture Book Sketches, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged Art, Christmas, Etsy Shop, Evanston Art Center, Gifts, Greeting Cards, Hanukkah, Holiday & Greeting Cards, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Note Cards, Painting, winter, Winter Arts & Crafts EXPO
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Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 