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Tag Archives: MIlkweed
Poetry Friday–#NPM 2021: Spring
Happy Poetry Friday and National Poetry Month! Spring plants are emerging, and I’m waiting on my backyard milkweed to push-on-through the soil… And then monarchs come. This week I’m celebrating with Spring poems that I’ve been writing for NPM. I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged #National Poetry Month 2021, #PoetryFriday, #Tabatha Yeatts, "Spring's Launch", artist, birds, crocus, daffodil, En Plen Air, Junco, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Monarchs, nature, Oil Painting, Painting, Pollinate, Robin, Soul Blossom Living, Susan Bruck, Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference, This Photo Wants To Be A Poem, Writer
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Last Nature Haiku for 2019
Happy New Years Eve! Here’s my last nature haiku post for 2019, I’ve been tagging my haikus this last month as #natember, and more of my poet friends have been tweeting with #haikuforkindness #haikuforjustice #haikuforhope including: Linda Baie, Jone MacCulloch, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #haikuforhope, #haikuforjustice, #haikuforkindness, #natember, 2020, Art, December, environment, Haiku, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, New Years, New Years Eve, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, snow, spirit, thoughts, Truth, Waiting, winter, Women, Writing
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#Inktober2019 day 6 and Haiku
#Inktober day 6, prompt: husky milkweed’s husky june stature glows then withers, with autumn’s advance… © 2019 Michelle Kogan Here’s the inktober prompt schedule from the originator Jake Parker:
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, Art, earth, environment, fall milkweed, family, friends, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, thoughts, wings, withered
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#Poetry Friday–Exhibit and Milkweed Poem
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m happy to share with you my painting and Summer Milkweed poem that will be included in the exhibit: Plant Medicine: Multi-Speciies Wellness in a Global City Opening reception Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 5:30 pm running … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged "Plant Medicine: Multi-Speciies Wellness in a Global City", "SUMMER MILKWEED", Art, backyard gardens, bees, butterflies, Community Gardens, earth, environment, exhibits, family, Flowers, friends, Heidi Mordhorst, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Monarchs, Museum of Surgical Science, nature, Oil Painting, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, pollinating, Pollinators, Ponder, reflections, spirit, sun, Truth, Waiting, Women
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Poetry Friday–Naomi Shihab Nye– “Kindness” & Nature
Milkweed, Hollyhock, Monarchs, Bee, and Dragonfly, © 2016 Michelle Kogan, watercolor and watercolor pencil. Happy Poetry Friday! Our Host this week is Mary Lee Hahn. Mary Lee is celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye–and asked us all to join in. I took … Continue reading
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Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, Children, earth, environment, family, Flowers, gardens, Humanity, inalienable rights, kindness, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Monarchs, mother nature, Naomi Shihab Nye, nature, people, poems, poetry, reflections, thoughts, Waiting, wings, Women
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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–More Monarchs & Bees
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m posting early as I’m on my way to Door County, WI. I think the monarchs may become more scarce soon as the milkweed flowers are almost finished blooming. A few more pics from my … Continue reading
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Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, backyards, bees, butterflies, Catherine Wallian Flynn, environment, family, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, nature, poems, poetry, Reading to the Core, reflections, summer, thoughts, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Butterflies and Bees
Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome to my backyard … I’ve been in awe at the number of monarchs I have visiting in my garden this summer. There are sometimes five fluttering around at the same time. I’m sharing the path of … Continue reading
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Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, backyards, bees, butterflies, chicago, Emily Dickinson, gardens, Heidi Mordhorst, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Monarchs, oils, Painting, poems, poetry, Pollinators, WIP
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