Tag Archives: Mary Lee Hahn

Poetry Friday–Etheree – Transformation – National Women’s History Month

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

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 →

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Poetry Friday–Covid, Cakewalk & Monarch’s Endangered…

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

This past week… I’ve been up to my elbows in soap, disinfecting anything in sight while trying to keep the cruel airborne Covid Virus from coming my way. My husband came down with Covid, I sure wouldn’t wish this on … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–Ekphrastic Dodoitsu Poems

Posted on March 24, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

SPRING’S PERENNIAL LOVE I’m here, awaiting your love leaves stretch-wide welcoming you,your overlooked blue crocus with blushed affections, xox © 2022 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! My post today is all about Ekphrastic Dodoitsu poems. It was offered as a … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–Exquisite Corpse Poems

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Way back at the end of January, the Poetry Sisters invited us all to participate in another poem prompt. The focus for February would be to write an exquisite corpse poem, ah what fun this was, thank … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday—Winter

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! IN WINTER In winter Calm crawls in between bitter cold banks of blustery snow howling fierce winds and winter blankets all. In winter Majesty musters in ponders profundity appears uncannily between sandpaper dry air and stands on … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–ODE TO AUTUMN

Posted on November 25, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

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 →

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Poetry Friday–Holiday Lights & “This Photo Wants to be…”

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

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 →

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Poetry Friday— Bird’s Feeding–Native Chicagoan’s…

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Last week the new named Poetry Group, the Inklings, including Margaret Simon, Catherine Flynn, Linda Mitchell, Heidi Mordhorst, Molly Hogan, and Mary Lee Hahn, challenged themselves to write ghazal’s for their monthly prompt. Well, I’ve written at … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday—Hang’n out with Pygmy Sloths & Change…

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

HANG’N OUT WITH CHANGE… If we could be slow as sloths in mangrove trees, could we start thinking about you and we, and bring change for everybody…   © 2021 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I’m all in with this friendly … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–Hummingbird and Cucumbers…

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m immersed in my garden and its visitors. Enjoy the romp round my green-filled grounds… SUMMER GRATITUDE I missed hummingbird once, then twicewith my Oh! And off she flew… At 7:00ish as sun slackened, I sat waiting— … Continue reading →

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