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Poetry Friday: #NaPoWriMo Earth Day & Art Exhibits
Happy Poetry Friday! Happy Early Earth Day! Happy National Poetry Month! … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Picture Book, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2018, #National Poetry Month 2018, Art, Art Exhibits, drawing, earth day, environment, Gallery 1070, Michelle Kogan, Painting, Protect Earth, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, spring, Studio b., The Emergent Garden
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#NaPoWriMo Day 17 haiku and WIP watercolor
transfixed by indoor tulips, sparrow waits patiently… © 2018 Michelle Kogan On my blog for National Poetry Writing Month I’ve been focusing on flora, fauna, and our environment. Here’s a list of the poems I’ve posted so far: Poem one– … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2018, #National Poetry Month 2018, Art, chicago, chicago weather, environment, Haiku, Michelle Kogan, Painting, poems, poetry, sparrow, spring, Tulips, watercolors
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#NaPoWriMo Day 15-found poem
BIRDS’ PERSPECTIVE In a courtyard of Mexico, were wilson’s warblers– Yellow-bellied, black-capped hopping pathways, pausing to eat a bug. I wander in the courtyard paying attention to townsends and audubon warblers, knock-knock of a woodpecker overhead, robins, house finches, canyon … Continue reading
#NaPoWriMo Day 7–Tanka & Ladybug
From a poem prompt David Harrison gave us at Renee LaTulippe’s blog No Water River. A LOVELY BEETLE Can you guess my name? “You’re lovely ladybug!” Yes, but I’m really a beetle, called ladybird, and sometimes lady beetle. Say, Coccinellidae, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #National Poetry Month 2018, Art, Beetle, ladybug, Michelle Kogan, NaPoWriMo, nature, Painting, poem, poetry, Tanka, Watercolor, wings
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Poetry Friday-#NaPoWriMo day 5 Tanka & Painting
Happy Poetry Friday, and National Poetry Month. I’ve had such a rich week perusing Jama Rattigan’s blog Jama’s Alphabet Soup and her postings of the many poets featuring poems this month! I’ve been following the Progressive Poem that Irene Latham … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #National Poetry Month, April, Art, books, buds, environment, Humanity, Kidlit, Michelle Kogan, NaPoWriMo, Painting, poems, poetry, spring, Tanka, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo day 5 Poem & Cat
APRIL’S MYSTERIES… Scurry of three birds gone in a flash– Black cat sauntering on a mission– On April fifth what else unfolds… ©2018 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged animals, April, Art, cats, Michelle Kogan, mysteries, NaPoWriMo, Painting, Pen and Ink, poem, poetry, thoughts, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo Day 2 haiku & azaleas
pink petals pose perplexities or spring’s possibilities © 2018 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NationalPoetryMonth, Art, Azaleas, bees, Flowers, Haiku, Michelle Kogan, NaPoWriMo, Painting, poem, poetry, poetry Month, Watercolor, wings, Writing
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Poetry Friday-March for Kids Lives
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m getting ready for another March in Chicago–this Saturday’s March For Our Lives. I’m sharing a tanka poem and my poster that I will carry. I hope to get the backside of the poster done before the … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Writing
Tagged #March for Our Lives, Action, Art, chicago, family, friends, Humanity, kids, Michelle Kogan, Painting, people, poem, poetry, Poets, Poster, Safe Kids, Safe Neighborhoods, Safe Schools, school, Students, Tanka, thoughts, Women, Writing
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Spring-art & poem
Happy Spring! SPRINGTIME’S AWAKE Splish splash away rain–Let ringing rays roll around the ground, dry–marshy March’s morning, ready right now, for spring’s dream times… Do ba de do… darling dewdrop Singing choo choo chirrup through all– Flower scent’s, sweet … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged "Springtime's Awake", Art, artist, golden shovel, Michelle Kogan, Painting, poem, poetry, Sound Cloud, spring, springtime, Watercolor
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