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Tag Archives: Tanka
Poetry Friday–short poem, short post
Happy Poetry Friday! Here’s to a New Year and a New first poem… My tanka poem was inspired by Margaret Simon’s This Photo Wants to Be A Poem, post this week, thanks Margaret and for the photo too! Stop by … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged "mossy greenness", Bert Meyers, Catherine Flynn, classes, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, New Year, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, Tanka, Teaching Art, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Nature Poems, Dad’s Day Card & Summer Art Classes
Happy Poetry Friday! Come on in and sit for a spell, kick back and soak in some traces of summer, some poetry and art… beach walk blooms…prairie’s dainty petals dancein nature kissed winds. brunch by the shore—wind, wave, wings, wonder,all … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged artist, Children's Picture Book Illustration, Evanston Art Center, Father's Day, Father's Day Cards, Figure and Nature Drawing and Painting, Haiku, Karen Edmisten, Michelle Kogan, Michelle's Art Classes, Pen & Ink, Pen & Ink & Watercolor, poem, poems, Poet, Poetry Friday, reflections, Summer Art Classes, Tanka, Watercolor Classes, Writing
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Poetry Friday—Autumn–Haiku & Tanka Prompt
daring dahliaignites eyes, and autumn’s imagination…© 2021 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday, and Happy Autumn! I’m sharing a Tanka poem from the Poetry Sister’s September Poem Prompt. Our challenge: respond to another tanka “poem we love from the Poetry Friday … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, Autumnal, Diane Mayr, Gustav Klimt, haiku poem, Laura Purdie Salas, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poems, poetry, reflections, Tanka
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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
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing
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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#PoetryFriday–#SPRING!
Happy Poetry Friday I’m Celebrating Spring and spreading around thoughts to encourage all our plants to come up out of the ground! SPRINT TO SPRING Dandelion dancing to rags of Scott Joplin’s “Gladiola’s” in my Kick-up Cartwheel sprint to SPRING! … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, bird songs, birds, Children, Dandelions, earth, environment, family, Flowers, friends, Goofing Off Day, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading, Rebecca Herzog, Sloth Reads, spring, Tanka, thoughts, video, wings, Women, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo Day 7–Tanka & Ladybug
From a poem prompt David Harrison gave us at Renee LaTulippe’s blog No Water River. A LOVELY BEETLE Can you guess my name? “You’re lovely ladybug!” Yes, but I’m really a beetle, called ladybird, and sometimes lady beetle. Say, Coccinellidae, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #National Poetry Month 2018, Art, Beetle, ladybug, Michelle Kogan, NaPoWriMo, nature, Painting, poem, poetry, Tanka, Watercolor, wings
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Poetry Friday-#NaPoWriMo day 5 Tanka & Painting
Happy Poetry Friday, and National Poetry Month. I’ve had such a rich week perusing Jama Rattigan’s blog Jama’s Alphabet Soup and her postings of the many poets featuring poems this month! I’ve been following the Progressive Poem that Irene Latham … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #National Poetry Month, April, Art, books, buds, environment, Humanity, Kidlit, Michelle Kogan, NaPoWriMo, Painting, poems, poetry, spring, Tanka, Writing
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Poetry Friday-March for Kids Lives
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m getting ready for another March in Chicago–this Saturday’s March For Our Lives. I’m sharing a tanka poem and my poster that I will carry. I hope to get the backside of the poster done before the … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Writing
Tagged #March for Our Lives, Action, Art, chicago, family, friends, Humanity, kids, Michelle Kogan, Painting, people, poem, poetry, Poets, Poster, Safe Kids, Safe Neighborhoods, Safe Schools, school, Students, Tanka, thoughts, Women, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Bid Farewell Old Year
Welcoming Poetry Friday, this last one of the year, with a simple adieu to 2017 and a humble hello to 2018–with a tanka and a poem by W. S. Merwin, To The New Year. BID FAREWELL OLD YEAR Look upon … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Writing
Tagged animals, Art, Dove, Halo, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, New Year, peace, poem, poetry, Poetry Friday, reflections, spirit, Tanka, thoughts, W. S. Merwin, wings
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Poetry Friday tanka, #inktober and painting
I’m wrapped in the roundness of fall, and for Poetry Friday I’m sharing an autumnal tanka poem and ink and watercolor painting; also for inktober. I’m also sharing a fall poem by Carl Sandburg and one by Mary Oliver. SEEDS … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Writing
Tagged #Inktober 2017, Art, autumn, Carl Sandburg, dip pens, fall, Gourds, Mary Oliver, Michelle Kogan, Painting, Pens, pods, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, pumpkins, Tanka, Watercolor
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