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Tag Archives: #PoetryFriday
Poetry Friday– Box-4×4 Poem Prompt
Happy Poetry Friday! My two poems below come from the Poetry Sisters prompt to write a poem that has something to do with a “box.” I chose to write 4 x 4 poems, they have:– 4 stanzas– 4 syllables per … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Boxes of Love", "Chorus", 4 x 4 poems, Compassion, empathy, empowerment, Happy New Year!, Hope, Joy, Justice, kindness, love, Michelle Kogan, Patricia J. Franz, peace, Peter Streckfus, Reverie
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Poetry Friday–Dream Haiku & Holiday Cards
Happy Poetry Friday! I have a haiku to share from Margaret Simon’s post this week for This Photo Wants to be a Poem, thanks Margaret for the prompt! You can take a peek at the image by following the link, … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Trips, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, birds, Catherine Flynn, Christmas, Dreams, Hanukkah, Hawthorn Berries, heart, Holiday Gift Cards, Holidays, Hydrangea, Joy, love, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, Moonbeam, peace, Robin, snow, snowflakes, Snowperson, winter
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Poetry Friday—Folktale Week Poem
Fall Leaves card, © 2015, Michelle Kogan, pen and ink and watercolor, available in my online Etsy Shop: Michelle Kogan Fine Art Happy Poetry Friday! I decided to pick up the prompt that was created by Linda Mitchell, on her … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #folktaleweek2022, #PoetryFriday, "The Magic Tree", A Word Edgewise, Art, artist, Haibun, Haiku, Inklings, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, Mother Earth, Nat King Cole, nature, Painting, Pen and Ink, poem, poetry, reflections, Sustain Mother Earth, trees, Watercolor, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Dansa Poem & New Holiday Card
Garden of the Phoenix, Hyde Park, © 2022 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I’m giving Fall a farewell goodby hug as our temps drop over the next few days into the 30’s and then 20’s… My image is from the … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Garden of the Phoenix", "Nature's golden ripples rise above political mayhem", "Robin Hydrangea and Hawthorne Berries", Art, artist, Buffy Silverman, Dansa Poem, Etsy Shop, fall, Flowers, gardens, Holiday Cards, Kintsugi, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, nature, Painting, Poet, Robin, Solace, Urban Gardens, Watercolor, Writer
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Poetry Friday–Haiku
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with two haikus–one inspired by my walk and the other for my Dad for I’ve taken up a habit of writing poems for him on his Birthday… warm-air wind-shift,pumpkins politic-smile and leaves duo-tone dance… ©2022 … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Picture Book, poetry, Poetry Books, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, #pumpkins, Art, Birthdays, dad, daughters and fathers, fall, family, haiku, heart, leaves, Matt Forrest Esenwine, Memories, Michelle Kogan, nature, poem, poetry, reflections, Writing
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Poetry Friday-Definito Poem Prompt
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing a definito poem this week, from the Poetry Sister’s September poem prompt. Thanks Heidi Mordhorst for creating this form! And thanks to all the Poetry Sister’s for the prompt: Laura, Tanita, Mary Lee, Liz, Kelly, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Color Spectrum, #Definito, #HUES, #PoetryFriday, #poetrypals, Art, birds, fall, Gourdian FInch, Gourds, Heidi Mordhorst, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poem, poems, poetry, pumpkins, reflections, Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference, Watercolor, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Quick Fall Post…
Happy Poetry Friday & Happy Fall Stopping in quickly to wish all a Happy Fall! It’s been a busy week and another ahead of me– Something new is brewing… I’ll fill you in on the why’s perhaps next week…But for … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Tap Dancing on the Roof", Art, Jan Godown Annino, Korean Poem Form, Linda Sue Park, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, Rose Cappelli, Sijo Poem, Writing
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Poetry Friday— Endings & Beginnings…
Happy Poetry Friday and Welcome September… BEGINNINGS & ENDINGS Endings and beginningsDoes nature have a beginningwhat about beauty…Can we get caught upin a field of fall flowerstall grasses intertwinedbees anxious for their last bit of summer nectar– Watch bee– As … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, Linda Baie, Michelle Kogan, nature, Pencil Drawing, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, Teacher Dance, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Firefly, Acrostic Maya Angelou, & New Pomelo book–THINGS WE FEEL
hey firefly…you lift my night and sparklesfill me inside © Michelle Kogandraft HAPPY POETRY FRIDAY! This month the Poetry Sister’s challenge for the month of July was to write an acrostic poem taken from Maya Angelou’s poem STILL I RISE–the … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, #poetrypals, "NATURE’S SALVE", "Still I Rise", Fireflies, Janet Wong, Marcie Flinchum Atkins, Maya Angelou, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, Sylvia Vardell, THINGS WE FEEL, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Covid, Cakewalk & Monarch’s Endangered…
This past week… I’ve been up to my elbows in soap, disinfecting anything in sight while trying to keep the cruel airborne Covid Virus from coming my way. My husband came down with Covid, I sure wouldn’t wish this on … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, A(nother) Year of Reading, butterflies, Cake-walk, Covid, empathy, family, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, Monarch, Monarch Butterflies Endangered, National Geographic, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, Saga, Watercolor Painting, Writing
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