Tag Archives: Pondering

Poetry Friday–Bees, Pollinators, & Climate Change…

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

keep coming bees—buzz your summer dance, keep onpollinating, please— © 2023 Michelle Kogan, draft Happy Poetry Friday Pondering on pollinators in and around my garden, trying to help their numbers multiply… PRECIOUS PARADISE PATCH… In almost late July, while ground … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, Air Quality, artist, bees, birds, Climate Change, doves, Hawk-moth bee, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Pen and Ink, poem, poetry, Pollinators, Pondering, reflections, Reflections on the teche, Robin, Writer | 11 Comments

Poetry Friday-Mid Winter

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

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 →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, "MID WINTER", Annual February Poetry Project, Art, Chicago Midwinter, Haiku, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, nature, patience, poem, poems, poetry, Pondering, reflections, Walks, Writing | 15 Comments

Poetry Friday–Pondering…

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Pondering, © 2019 Michelle Kogan, watercolor pencil, after the sculpture Clytie, by William Henry Rinehart, 1872, Marble, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and my trip there. Happy Poetry Friday! Dani Graham Burtsfield is hosting this weeks Poetry Friday Roundup at her … Continue reading →