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Poetry Friday-May Earthiness…

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with a wee short post, as I’m still helping my mom pack, 6 days left before the move… robin, catbirdearth tilled joy— poke, prod—um, yumgarden solace pride. ©2023 Michelle Kogan, draft Janice Scully at her … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday–Mother’s Day

Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Mother’s Day! Still busy and filled-to-the-gills, so popping in with a 4 x 4 poem and brief Mother’s Day post for all feathered and unfeathered Mom’s all around… FEATHERED MAMA’S Flutter–fly–by Omnipresent On ground and … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday–Welcome May & New Card

Happy Poetry Friday & Happy May! MAY GRATITUDE & MARVELS Gazing up through my  window pillowous clouds merge into  shape-shifting form… Patches of  light washed  cerulean blue sky excite me with goose-bumpy  wonder… And spring’s young  greengold leaves  and ochreish  … Continue reading

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2023 Progressive Poem Finale!

“Write me a story that ends with sudden clarity.” Mary Lee suggested… As we began our 2023 Progressive Poem. So here we are at the closing of National Poetry Month and the closing of our Progressive Poem, that originated a … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday–#PocketPoem & Pablo Neruda Challenge

Happy Poetry Friday & Happy National Poetry Month! I’m sharing my poem from Thursday’s Poem in Your Pocket Day, and my DIY process for it. I folded my poem into a kinda flower to keep it safe in my pocket, … Continue reading

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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

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Poetry Friday–Emerging Spring

EMERGING CHANGE Happy Poetry Friday! I watch and wait as spring shares her signs, and doves persist… EMERGING CHANGE Paper whites push up through softened, squishy soil Over-winter leaves linger and await waiting soil-ready hands Statuesque garden beauty earthen-world or … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday–Ekphrastic Challenge

Happy Poetry Friday! Thanks again Poetry Sisters,  Laura,  Tanita,  Mary Lee,  Liz,  Kelly,  Tricia,  Sara, and Andi for your prompt this month to write an ekphrastic poem. Find more of these poems tagged with #PoetryPals. My poem also comes from a prompt by Carol Varsalona who provided us … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday–Sparrowing and Reflections…

rooftop sparrowing in february sketch me if you can… © 2023 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! The sparrows have been singing to me in the morning, maybe they know spring is coming… Or maybe they just want me to do … Continue reading

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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

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