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Poetry Friday–Spring & Actions for Hate Crimes
Happy Poetry Friday and Welcome SPRING! Trying to welcome Spring, though Spring has decided to temporarily take leave, I hear she may return next week. Anyway, here’s a poem for Spring Crocus’ and a WIP watercolor with bits of white … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Spring's Crocus", Actions, American Problem, artist, crocus, Golden Shovel Poem, Hate Crimes, Linda Baie, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poem, poetry, reflections, spring, Teacher Dance, Watercolor
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Poetry Friday–New Lunar Moon
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Lunar Moon I looked to Moon for my poem this week, in celebration of having a Lunar Moon… and a bit of life slipped in too… If you spy a good image of her, send … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, #Villanelle, Art, care, lost lives, Lunar Moon 2021, masked, Michelle Kogan, Molly Hogan, moon, poem, poetry, Rumi, sky, starts, Truth, Watercolor
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Poetry Friday–RBG
Happy Poetry Friday!(typed with a slight sigh, from this last week…) What a week… This week for Poetry Friday there were two prompt suggestions. One came a while back from Tanita Davis one of the Poetry Sisters/Princesses. The prompt was … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, #RBG, #Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gender equality, haiku, Jone Rush Macculloch, Justice, Michelle Kogan, MY POSTAL LADY, poem, poetry, Poets, Silver Birch Press, Tanita S. Davis
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Progressive Poem 2020 is here! #NPM
Welcome to the 2020 Progressive Poem. Created originally, and hosted up to this year by Irene Latham, during National Poetry Month. This year Margaret Simon has picked up the baton and is our new host. Thank you Irene and … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Poem, Writing
Tagged #Progressive Poem 2020, Action, animals, Art, Banjo, Banjo rendition, Children, Donna Smith, Dreams, earth, environment, family, Fran Haley, friends, Humanity, Irene Latham, Lyrical poem, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, music, nature, poem, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, Thanks, thoughts, travel, video, wings, WIP Banjo, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 1 -Feathered Friends
Happy National Poetry Writing Month #NaPoWriMo! Here’s a poem to lift your spirits, inspired by my early morning feathered friends! #Birds #Climateendangered #Poem MORNING WAKEUP CALL Cock a doodle doo rang out rooster’s rollicking call, Cherup, cherup, cherup, sang … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2020 Michelle Kogan, bird songs, cheer you up!, environment, family, feathers, friends, Humanity, music, people, poem, poems, poetry, Poets, reflections, robins, roosters, sparrows, Thanks, thoughts, wakeup call, wings, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo Day 28, #poem and #sketch
FROM PENCIL TIPS Little words letter forms crawl out from cobwebs of thoughts, push aside barrage of daily din, collectively form, sometimes orderly, mostly scribbled furiously on lines with a desire to make that leap of faith–allow fingers to furiously … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "From Pencil Tips", #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Art, books, Little words, Michelle Kogan, Pencils, poem, Ponder, reflections, risks, thoughts, Truth, Waiting, Writing, writing process
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It’s National Poetry Month #NPM #NaPoWriMo
Happy 2019 National Poetry Month Oh my butterfly how I pine for your sight, ponder on by and pay me a visit soon, don’t make me wait till june… © 2019 Michelle Kogan I’ll be writing poems inspired by … Continue reading
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Tagged #NPM, 2019, animals, Art, Art and Poetry, Butterfly, environment, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, Monarch, NaPoWriMo, poem, poetry, Tanka, thoughts, Waiting, Watercolor, watercolor pencils, Writing
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