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#NaPoWriMo Day 13
GROW MILKWEED SEEDS Looking looking searching high and low, Are you my milkweed seeds starting to grow… 2019 Michelle Kogan For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by art that I create or have created. Visit these spots on … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Picture Book Sketches, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Action, Art, books, earth, environment, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Milkweed seeds, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Seeds, spring, sun, thoughts, Waiting, Writing
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#Poetry Friday–#NaPoWriMo & New Etsy Card & Bookmark
Greeting Card, Girl Flower Faces, 5 x 7 inches. Happy Poetry Friday! I’m spreading some color for Spring with poetry and art. The images here are from a new painting called Girl Flower Faces, and are available in my Etsy Shop … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Art, Bookmarks, dried fowers, earth, Girls, Greeting Cards, Humanity, Irene Latham, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, Waiting, Women, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo day 8 #haiku, #watercolor
three star narcissus laugh at ignorance and speak truth without words… © 2019 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, animals, bee, earth, environment, friends, Haiku, Humanity, ignorance, Michelle Kogan, Narcissus, Ponder, reflections, stars, Truth, Writing
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It’s National Poetry Month #NPM #NaPoWriMo
Happy 2019 National Poetry Month Oh my butterfly how I pine for your sight, ponder on by and pay me a visit soon, don’t make me wait till june… © 2019 Michelle Kogan I’ll be writing poems inspired by … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NPM, 2019, animals, Art, Art and Poetry, Butterfly, environment, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, Monarch, NaPoWriMo, poem, poetry, Tanka, thoughts, Waiting, Watercolor, watercolor pencils, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–Lion or Lamb
Happy Poetry Friday I’m trying to stay positive about the Chicago weather. It was glorious yesterday, and today, we’re back to almost winter like weather. It was pretty nippy while I painted outside. Which brings me to my poem for … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, April, Art, birds, earth, environment, Flowers, Garter snakes, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, reflections, spring, spring flowers, sun, thoughts, Waiting, wings, Writing
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#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–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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