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Poetry Friday-Summer Etheree’s

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

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m having a summer play-day with this etheree poetry prompt given to us by the Poetry Princesses/Poetry Sisters. Laura Purdie Salas, one of the Poetry Sisters suggested using #poetrypals as a hashtag. I took a few … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing | Tagged #kidlitart, #PoetryFriday, #poetrypals, Art, Catherine Flynn, Children's Illustration, contour lines, earth, environment, Etheree, fish, friends, Kidlit, Laura Purdie Salas, leaves, life, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Poetry Princesses, Poetry prompt, Poetry Sisters, Ponder, reflections, stories, summer, sun, Thanks, thoughts, Waiting, wings, Writing | 12 Comments

Poetry Friday–Celebrating Nikki Grimes!

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! I’m happy to be part of the Poetry Friday celebration of awarding winning author, poet, and artist Nikki Grimes! I’ve read a handful of Nikki’s 75 + books and have many more waiting for me. What comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Picture Book, Plein Air Art, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, Art, Between the Lines, books, Celebration, change, Children, Covid19, Dreams, family, friends, Humanity, Irene Latham, life, Live Your Poem, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Michelle Kogan, Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards A Memoir, poems, Poets, Ponder, Reading, Recovery, reflections, roses, Southwest Sunrise, Sree Sreenivasan, stories, Students, Systemic Racism, Thanks, thoughts, Todays Little Ditty, Truth, video, Waiting, watercolors, wings, Women, Writing | 12 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–NaPoWriMo: Mourning Dove

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday and Happy National Poetry Month! I’m sharing a poem, art, and pics of a mourning dove that visited me this week in my backyard garden. Actually a pair visited, for quite a long time… I’m very … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, Writing | Tagged #NaPoWriMo2020, #PoetryFriday, Action, Art, birds, Christie Wyman, earth, environment, family, gardens, Humanity, JoAnn Balingit, Michelle Kogan, mourning dove, Narcissus, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, spring, Thanks, wings, Writing | 23 Comments

#NaPoWriMo: Earth Day–earth-art & letter poem

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Earth Day on this 50th Celebration! I’m sharing some earth-art and a letter poem. DEAR EARTH Dear Earth, Lend us your deep-rooted wisdom So we may make wise our neglectful history Send us your powerful patience So we may earn it … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing | Tagged #EarthDay2020, #NaPoWriMo2020, Action, animals, Art, Children, earth, environment, family, friends, Humanity, Letter Poem, Michelle Kogan, people, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, Thanks, thoughts, Truth, Waiting, Watercolor, wings, Women, Writing | Leave a comment

Poetry Friday–Jane Yolen and Response

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

Happy Poetry Friday! On Monday I read Jane Yolen’s heart-wrenching poem, Plowing Under. The poem reminded me of a few articles I just read about long car lines waiting for food at food pantries, and how farmers are having to … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing | Tagged #Coronavirus, #PoetryFriday, Action, birds, dusky-throated antshrike, environment, family, Farmer's Plowing Under Food, friends, Helpers, Humanity, Hunger, Jane Yolen, Michelle Kogan, Mile long food pantry lines, Molly Hogan, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, thoughts, Truth, Waiting, wings | 19 Comments

Poetry Friday–#NaPoWriMo Climate Endangered Bird

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

Happy Poetry Friday and Happy National Poetry Month! For National Poetry Month, I’m going to be focusing on nature and climate endangered birds, with poems and art. I’m following birds that Audubon has categorized as climate endangered or climate threatened, … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing | Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, Audubon, birds, Climate endangers birds, earth, family, friends, Heidi Mordhorst, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, The Cornell Lab, thoughts, White Throated Sparrow, wings, WIP | 17 Comments

#NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 1 -Feathered Friends

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy National Poetry Writing Month #NaPoWriMo! Here’s a poem to lift your spirits, inspired by my early morning feathered friends! #Birds #Climateendangered #Poem MORNING WAKEUP CALL Cock a doodle doo rang out rooster’s rollicking call, Cherup, cherup, cherup, sang … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, Writing | Tagged #NaPoWriMo2020 Michelle Kogan, bird songs, cheer you up!, environment, family, feathers, friends, Humanity, music, people, poem, poems, poetry, Poets, reflections, robins, roosters, sparrows, Thanks, thoughts, wakeup call, wings, Writing | 1 Comment

Poetry Friday–Migratory Birds & Songs…

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Michelle Kogan Art, Illustration, & Writing

Happy Poetry Friday! This weekend we move into Day Light Savings time in the midwest, and welcome more hours of evening light. We are also welcoming all the spring migratory birds, some that stay till fall, and some that visit, … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing | Tagged "Birds of Passage", "Carnival of the Animals, #PoetryFriday, American Redstart, animals, Art, bird songs, environment, family, Flowers, friends, Henry wadsworth Longfellow, Humanity, Hyacinths, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, Migratory birds, music, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, Rebecca Herzog, reflections, spirit, video, wings, Writing | 8 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 →