Tag Archives: summer

Poetry Friday–Attraction & WIP Watercolor

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I saw these gorgeous flowers at my local farmer’s market and they told me, take me home… snapdragon caught my eye and asked, can you catch me–pondering patience… © Michelle Kogan, draft Well, I also took them … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #Attraction, #Flowertalk, #Poetry Friday, #pondering patience, #Snapdragons, #Writer, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Art, artist, chicago, Flowers, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, Poet, summer, Watercolor | 18 Comments

Poetry Friday–Exquisite Corpse Poem

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! GLOBAL REPAIRERS… Woodsmoke rising horizon-turning dayGypsy wagon wheels ready to roll Air quality-checker climate changerwho can foretell what our future holds Gratitude old-growth-trail refereewe’ll come around again someday, you’ll see. © 2023 Michelle Kogan & Linda Mitchell, … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Trips, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, #poetrypals, Air Quality, August, Climate Change, Climate Changer, Exquisite Corpse, Exquisite Corpse Poems, Global, Gratitude, Linda Baie, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, Old Growth Forests, Poetry Sisters, Repairers, summer | 11 Comments

Poetry Friday–June Moon Poem & Poem Response for “Braiding Sweetgrass”

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! This month we were invited to write poems for two poem prompts…One from the Poetry Sisters where our poem evolves from a question, and we could write in whatever poem form we’d like to use. I took … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks | Tagged #PoetryFriday, #PoetryPals. JuneMoon, Alan J. Wright, bees, Caterpillars, Flowers, Gardeneering, Irene Latham, June, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Painting, Poet, summer, Watercolor, Zucchini flowers | 12 Comments

Poetry Friday–Solstice Caterpillar… & Yeava Skalietska

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I was on one of my milkweed leaf-checking routes (checking and abating aphids) and I spied this lovely baby monarch caterpillar–natures gift back to me. Another bonus of checking the milkweed is handling the ever-so-soft velvety leaves. … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #Backyard gardens, #Poetry Friday, A Word Edgewise, books, gardens, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Monarch Caterpillars, summer, Ukraine, Yeava Skalietska | 13 Comments

Poetry Friday-More Good morning Haikus

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing a few more of my Good morning haikus. I started teaching my Sunday Plein Air Class last week at the Chicago Art Institute, and will begin my Evanston Art Center summer classes on Monday, so, … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, "monarch-ready", Buffy Silverman, chicago, delight, fleur-de-lis, gardens, Good morning Haiku, Haiku, Immagination, June 2023, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, nature, nature lover, Peonies, Siberian Iris, summer | 12 Comments

Poetry Friday–Good morning Haikus

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday & Happy June! Take a morning peek into my garden… good morningrose bud bursts—your spirit’scontagious!© 2023 Michelle Kogan, draft good morningmorning glories—you liftaway all worries© 2023 Michelle Kogan, draft good morningjacob’s ladder, your petals wisp like fairy … Continue reading →

Posted in Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, Cottage garden blooms, Good morning, Haiku, June 2023, Michelle Kogan, Music from Nature, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, summer, Tricia Stohr-Hunt, Writing | 9 Comments

Poetry Friday–NATURE PRAYER

Posted on July 7, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

It’s been a hard week,… I began with a few sentences on a cardboard scrap sometime before Sunday, PLANETARY PRAYER sitting on an apocalyptic-like precipicetime for introspective pauseand inclusive planetary new direction © 2022 Michelle Kogandraft I let it sit, … Continue reading →

Posted in Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Nature Prayer", "Planetary Prayer", Art, Ban Automatic Assault Guns, Ban Guns, Bookseedstudio, Enough US Mass Shootings, Harmony, Jan Godown Annino, leaves, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poem, poetry, reflections, Safe, summer, trees, Watercolor, Wind, Writing | 12 Comments

Poetry Friday–4th of July

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday and Happy 4th! I thought about family, as my family will be gathering this weekend, and it made me think of the song here, Family Affair. I’m sharing poems reflecting on the 4th, and the hearings unfolding… … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Writing | Tagged #Poetry Friday, "Phoenix and Lady Liberty", 2022 4th of July, Abortion, Art, Democracy, family, Janice Scully, July, Justice, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, Speak out, Speak up, summer, Truth, Vote, Vote Blue, Watercolor, Writing | 10 Comments

Poetry Friday–Roundup Is Here! Dads Day

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Happy Dad’s Day! & Happy Summer! The Poetry Friday Roundup is here! Please add your posts to Mister Linky below… I’m looking forward to getting around and reading all of your poetry posts throughout the weekend. Friday … Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday–Window Bays

Posted on June 9, 2022 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve had a week off between my Spring and Summer Teaching. So, morning Light and I played with words, and momentarily camouflaged the ever present din that seems to wrap around us… I woke with a poem … Continue reading →