Tag Archives: travel

Poetry Friday–Rosh Hashanah Card & Twister Poems

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Well I don’t know about you, but I don’t really know where the summer escaped too… I’m never really ready to let go of summer, even though I love fall. Summer feels fanciful, whimsical, and magical to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Painting, Poem, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, Art, Aurora Borealis, Chicago's tornado, earth, fall, family, Harvest, Holidays, Humanity, Jewish New Year, life, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan's Etsy Shop, Molly Hogan, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Rosh Hashanah, Rosh Hashanah Cards, summer, Tabatha Yeatts, Thanks, thoughts, travel, Twister, Waiting, Writing | 13 Comments

Poetry Friday–Poem Swap

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Today I’m celebrating summer with my Summer 2020 Poem Swap sent to me by Rebecca Herzog. I was delighted to receive this lovely, feel good poem and watercolor celebrating summer and sparkles–this helped me to remember it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book Sketches, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing | Tagged #kidlitart, #kidlitillustration, #PoetryFriday, #SummerPoemSwap, Art, celebrate, Children, Children's Illustration, Dreams Corine Bailey Ray, earth, environment, Fairies, family, Flowers, friends, Halo, Humanity, Laura Purdie Salas, Michelle Kogan, music, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, Rebecca Herzog, reflections, Sparkles, spirit, stars, stories, Students, summer, sun, Tabatha Yeatts, travel | 28 Comments

Poetry Friday–Poetry Mix & Flowers

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

hollyhocks, dance in my dreams and multiply… © 2020 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I am thinking about the fall, schools beginning, and people returning to on location jobs. My first thoughts are, we’re not ready. Hence this tanka poem … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Picture Book, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing | Tagged "See all colors fairly", #PoetryFriday, Anticipation, Art, Bookseedstudio, dance, Dreams, earth, environment, family, FLOAT, Flowers, friends, Hollyhocks, Humanity, Indigenous rights, Jan G Annino, life, Michelle Kogan, Outcomes, people, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, thoughts, travel, Waiting, Writing | 11 Comments

Poetry Friday: Lollipop… & Moon

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Sharing some of my front yard tulips that were begging to be seen… lollipop tulips lollygagging mid may’s day away… © 2020 Michelle Kogan And a poem that Dear Moon asked me to write… DEAR MOON … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged "Lollipop Tulips", #PoetryFriday, Art, environment, family, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, Missing you…, moon, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Thanks, travel, Tulips, Waiting, Writing | 26 Comments

Progressive Poem 2020 is here! #NPM

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

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 | 36 Comments

Poetry Friday–Fish & thoughts of our time

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I am fishy sitting for my college daughter’s fish while she is in NYC doing two internships with two different fashion companies this semester. Hence I’ve been spending time with her Betta fish Frida, and getting … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, Art, Betta Fish, Chaos, Day Dreaming, Dreams, environment, family, fish, Fish Sitting, flying, Humanity, Laura Purdie Salas, Michelle Kogan, music, MUSIC’S ELIXIR, pets, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Students, thoughts, travel, video, Writing | 23 Comments

Poetry Friday–Peek at Valentine’s Cards & Poems…

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Sprinkling some sweetness in the midsts of all… Here are some new and some old Valentines Greeting Cards and poems, all available in my online Etsy Shop: Michelle Kogan Fine Art VALENTINE LOVE xox Love my … Continue reading →

Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Haiku, Holidays, Painting, pen sketch, Writing | Tagged Art, books, Christie Wyman, Diane Mayr, environment, Humanity, Jone Rush Macculloch, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan #Poetry Friday, poems, poetry, reflections, travel, Writing | 18 Comments

Poetry Friday–New Year, New Light, New Activism…

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome to 2020… I’ve been thinking about light, change, children, and students, perhaps together they’ll move us in a positive global direction… I have two poems and a bit of music to accompany my pondering thoughts… A … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged "Changes " by David Bowie, #climatestrike, #David Bowie, Action, animals, Carol's Corner, Children, Dreams, earth, environment, family, friends, Global Climate Change, Golden Shovel Poem, Happy New Year, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, music, nature, people, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, Ponder, reflections, spirit, Students, sun, thoughts, travel, Truth, Waiting, WHO'S LEADING CLIMATE CHANGE…, wings, Women, Writing | 9 Comments

#Poetry Friday–Inktober day 10 Patterns

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with another haiku to accompany my inktober drawing, WIP. Thinking about our encroaching cold weather and all that fluffy snow that fills the ground… The prompt word is pattern. nature’s patterns inspire reflections mirroring beauty … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Writing | Tagged #Inktober2019, animals, Art, beauty, Catherine Wallian Flynn, earth, environment, family, Haiku, Humanity, Jake Parker, Michelle Kogan, nature, patterns, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading to the Core, reflections, reindeer, thoughts, travel, Truth, Writing | 19 Comments

Poetry Friday–Soaking in Summer’s End…

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! My daughter and I took a rendezvous to the Indiana Dunes National Park last Saturday. We lounged by the lake’s edge and then took a hike up the tallest Dune in the area Mount Tom, named … Continue reading →