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Tag Archives: Laura Shovan
Poetry Friday—Sky Nesting and Thanks!
Happy Poetry Friday, Happy Poetry Month, and Happy Sky Nestings SPRING RITUAL Birds are building nests everywhere… Sparrows, Robins, Cardinals, and high above a pair of Cooper’s Hawkscontemplate their next move… Eh eh commence spring nest building look up into … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #ClimatePoemProject, #EndangeredPollinatorPoem, #NationalPoetryMonth2023, #NPM, #Poetry Friday, birds, Cooper's Hawk, Hawk, Irene Latham, Jone Rush Macculloch, Laura Shovan, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, nature, poem, poetry, reflections, Spring Nests, Writing
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#NPM– #ClimatePoemProject
Happy National Poetry Month! Inviting all students, educators, kids big and small to write an Endangered Pollinator Poem! I’m participating in the Authors Take Action #ClimatePoemProject, that’s organized this year by Laura Shovan, thanks Laura! Here’s a link to the … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Poem, Poetry Books, Writing
Tagged #2023 NPM, #ClimatePoemProject, 2023 National Poetry Month Project, Authors Take Action, bees, butterflies, Invertebrates, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, Monarch Butterflies, Poems on endangered pollinators, Shape/Concrete Poems
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Poetry Friday–Etheree – Transformation – National Women’s History Month
Happy Poetry Friday! Can it be, here we are at the end of March and on the doorstep of April…And we have another poem challenge by the Poetry Sisters, this time to write an etheree– a ten line poem starting … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #2023National Poetry Month, #ClimatePoemProject, #Poetry Friday, #poetrypals, 2023 National Poetry Month Project, Amaryllis, Etheree, Flowers, Laura Shovan, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, Poems on endangered pollinators, Poet, Queen Victoria Riflebird, spring, The BeZIne, Transformation, Writing
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Poetry Friday-Mid Winter
Happy Poetry Friday! Here we are smack dab in the middle of another midwestern Chicago Winter…I’m sharing a Mid Winter poem and some music to soothe whatever can use soothing, and shoo away any February blues. MID WINTER… Wars raging … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, "MID WINTER", Annual February Poetry Project, Art, Chicago Midwinter, Haiku, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, nature, patience, poem, poems, poetry, Pondering, reflections, Walks, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Time & Star Postcard
Happy Poetry Friday My poem today is from another of the poem prompts from author and poet Laura Shovan for her 10th Annual February Poetry Project that I’m participating in. The prompt was offered by author and poet, Patricia Valdata, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "WE BELONG", "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" Poem, Laura Purdie Salas, Laura Shovan, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, Patricia Valdata, Sandy Denny
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Poetry Friday–Time & Valentines
Happy Poetry Friday! My poem is borrowed from Laura Shovan’s 10th Annual February Poetry Project, that I’m participating in online. This year the theme is on time, and each day we get a new prompt from another fellow poet. The … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Transforming Time", Art, Carol Varsalona, Creativity, drawing, Idea-time, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, nature, Playtime, poem, poetry, time, Triolet, valentines day
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Poetry Friday–Winter Poem Swap & Solstice
Happy Poetry Friday! I received this lovely light filled package of poetry and gifts from my poet friend Carol Varsalona this last week. You wouldn’t know we were both running short on time from the treasures that were exchanged, and … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Buffy Silverman, Carol Varsalona, Cento poem, Gifts, Gratitude, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, Painting, poems, Poetry Friday, reflections, Tabatha Yeatts, Watercolor, Winter poem swap, Winter Solstice, Writing
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Poetry Friday–ODE TO AUTUMN
Happy Poetry Friday On the heels of Thanksgiving I have an ODE TO AUTUMN poem, offered to us as a prompt by the Poetry Sisters’. And what a grand prompt this was in our month of giving thanks, to offer … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, #poetrypals, Art, autumn, fall leaves, Laura Shovan, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, nature, ODE TO AUTUMN, Odes, poems, poetry, Poetry Sisters', reflections, Ruth Bowen Hersey, Ruth Hersey, Tricube, Writing
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Poetry Friday–July 4th
Happy Poetry Friday!And Happy 4th of July! Here’s a short diamante poem to contemplate on and celebrate the Fourth of July… I thought of a diamante because of it’s diamond shape which reminds me of stars and fireworks, crackling in … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Amanda Gorman, #change, #endangered species, #Freedom, #Independence, #PoetryFriday, #Rebuild, #Sturgeon, #watercolor, 4th of July, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, Painting, poetry, Writing
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Poetry Friday-“Creative Brain”
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been participating in Laura Shovan’s 9th Annual February Poetry Project, where we write a poem a day during February. This year our poem prompt focus is the body. My Poem-Drawing here is from a prompt this … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Creative Brain", Art, Getty Museum, ideas, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, pencil sketch, Persistant, Poem-Drawing, poems, Poet-Artists, poetry, Polymath, Rebecca Brock, Ruth Bowen Hersey, William Blake
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