Tag Archives: Mary Oliver

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 →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, birds, IN WINTER, Mary Lee Hahn, Mary Oliver, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, Pen and Ink, poems, poetry, reflections, Watercolor, White-eyed vireo, Wintering milkweed, Writing | 14 Comments

Poetry Friday–Lobelia and Fall…

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I had a week off in between my summer and fall classes that I teach, and tried to fit in a little bit of painting… My hearts still in summer but the leaves that are falling … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, autumn, bees, Etsy Shop, fall, Flowers, Janet Wong, Lobelia, Mary Oliver, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Poetry for Children, purple, Sylvia Vardell, Traci Sorell | 24 Comments

#PoetryFriday–Justice, Martin Luther King Jr., & Women’s March

Posted on January 17, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m going to the Young Women’s March Rally 2019, this Saturday in Chicago. Our temps here are dropping rapidly and it’s going to be quite cold so I’m glad they are doing an hour and a half rally … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, Children, Dreams, earth, environment, Environmental Justice, family, Freedom, friends, Humanity, Justice, Martin Luther King Jr., Mary Oliver, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading, reflections, spirit, stories, thoughts, Women, Writing, Young Women's March Rally 2019 Chicago | 23 Comments

Poetry Friday–Life and Flowers

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in-between and so are the seasons. Winter still is holding on, but signs of green spring are pushing through the softened earth. So I’m sharing an in-between WIP painting, poem about life and flowers, and a … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, environment, Flowers, life, LIFE’S FLOWERS, Mary Oliver, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, Nikki Grimes, poems, poetry, WHAT GORGEOUS THING, WIP, Women, Writing | 9 Comments

Poetry Friday–STILLNESS OF TREETOPS & sketch

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I took a break one morning, before going off to teach and started this poem. I think it began as a Fib, but don’t remember. I had every intention of sketching the view through my studio window … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, fall, Fibonacci Poem, Mary Oliver, MichelleKogan, Painting, pen, poems, poetry, sketch, treetops, Watercolor, Writing | 16 Comments

Poetry Friday tanka, #inktober and painting

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

I’m wrapped in the roundness of fall, and for Poetry Friday I’m sharing an autumnal tanka poem and ink and watercolor painting; also for inktober. I’m also sharing a fall poem by Carl Sandburg and one by Mary Oliver. SEEDS … Continue reading →