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Poetry Friday Roundup is Here!
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m hosting the Poetry Friday Roundup today, drop your links off below with Mister Linky, and enjoy all the poetry ponderings around our small planet. Along with my poem and art, I found an interesting art/culture article … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday Roundup, Art, artist, birds, Bravery, care, Culture, Disrepair, Humanity, Kyiv, Michelle Kogan, music, nature, Painting, poem, Poets, reflections, Wars, Writer, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Dansa Poem & New Holiday Card
Garden of the Phoenix, Hyde Park, © 2022 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! I’m giving Fall a farewell goodby hug as our temps drop over the next few days into the 30’s and then 20’s… My image is from the … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Garden of the Phoenix", "Nature's golden ripples rise above political mayhem", "Robin Hydrangea and Hawthorne Berries", Art, artist, Buffy Silverman, Dansa Poem, Etsy Shop, fall, Flowers, gardens, Holiday Cards, Kintsugi, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, nature, Painting, Poet, Robin, Solace, Urban Gardens, Watercolor, Writer
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Poetry Friday–September & Ladybugs…
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m looking for that breath, that break, pause, between summer and fall… I haven’t found it yet, but I like September’s changes reminding me to keep on looking. evening sky grows a wee bit darker each day, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged Art, artist, autumn, Carol Varsalona, Evening sky, Ladybugs, Michelle Kogan, moon, nature, Painting, Poet, poetry, Poetry Friday, Rescue, September, September Moon, Writer
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Poetry Friday– AT THE POND, Poetry Book by David Elliott, Illustrated by Amy Schimler-Safford
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Earth Day! I’m tickled pink today, or perhaps green to be sharing a book review and comments from author and poet, David Elliott on his new poetry book, AT THE POND! David Elliott’s new verse … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Picture Book, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged Amy Schimler-Safford, artist, Author, Author Interview, David Elliott, earth day, Earth Day 2022, Kidlit Progressive Poem, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Picture Book, Plein Air, Poet, poetry, Poetry Friday, ponds, Progressive Poem 2022, Watercolor Painting, Writer
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Poetry Friday—Sky Pleasures
Happy Poetry Friday! Earlier this week I read i love you to the moon &, by Chen Chen, and it flew me away to another place… i love you to the moon &by Chen Chen not back, let’s not come … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, artist, Chen Chen, Coldplay, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Painting, poetry, Reflections on the teche, sky, sky gazing, Sky poems, Watercolor, Writer
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Poetry Friday–#NPM 2021: Spring
Happy Poetry Friday and National Poetry Month! Spring plants are emerging, and I’m waiting on my backyard milkweed to push-on-through the soil… And then monarchs come. This week I’m celebrating with Spring poems that I’ve been writing for NPM. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #National Poetry Month 2021, #PoetryFriday, #Tabatha Yeatts, "Spring's Launch", artist, birds, crocus, daffodil, En Plen Air, Junco, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Monarchs, nature, Oil Painting, Painting, Pollinate, Robin, Soul Blossom Living, Susan Bruck, Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference, This Photo Wants To Be A Poem, Writer
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Poetry Friday–April National Poetry Month
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy National Poetry Month! I’m sharing all things Spring, with poems and art for the opening of National Poetry Month! LILAC BUDS Lilac buds prickle me alive. Spring hides inside small buds,curling inside each unfurled floweret. … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged Ada Limón, archival prints, artist, buds, Flowers, Greeting Cards, lilacs, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, National Poetry Month 2021, Painting, Pen and Ink, spring, Watercolor, Writer
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Poetry Friday–Time Traveler Poem
Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome time travelers… We are taking a trip into the dictionary and going back in time to 1522, when the word hero first made her appearance. How appropriate heroes’ timing was, with the renaissance under way. But … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Painting, Poem, poetry, Trips, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Beatrice de Luna, Conversos, Donna Gracia Nasi, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Hero, Heroine, Inquisition, Jan Annino, Justice, Laura Purdie Salas, Michelle Kogan, Ottoman Empire, peace, poetry, Portugal, Tanita S. Davis, Time Traveler Poem, Truth, Writer
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Poetry Friday–Naani’s, blueness, & Halloween…
Happy Poetry Friday! Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Oh ya, this week some of us … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, Altruism, artist, change, Democracy, Desafinado, Evalyn Callahan Shaw, fall, Linda Baie, Michelle Kogan, Naani, Norah Jones, November, Painting, Pen and Ink, poems, poetry, Tanita S. Davis, Vote Blue, Watercolor, Writer
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