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Author: Ben Kohns

Lunacy

Who knows what else that thing can do?

lunacy, lunar cycles, lunatic, moon

6 by 6 – it will… transfix?

My goal of six is quite sublime, E’en if I have to rhyme with ‘slime’.

depth, form follows function, function follows form, meaning, rhyme, rhyming, shallow

Click on the Moon

If only…

click, control, icon, rest, sleep, snooze

innuendo

Angry Balls, my ass.

Son of the Right Side

Live into your name!

Benjamin, names

Necessary Irritants

GOOD LORD – IT JUST KEEPS COMING.

allergies, irritants, necessary, pollen

Winged Haunt

Other creatures fly with far less hope.

Aeneid, harpy, it could be worse, perspective, Virgil

whatever works

I still don’t know
if any hearts were opened.

Allen Wench, Heart, Hex Screw, Love, luck, opportunity, persistence, Phillips Screwdriver, The Who, timing, Tools

growing into your name

Really, my friend, I so wish you could see; You are as firm as your nameplate to me.

Lachrymose Vodka

Those should have been mine to cry

tanka, tears

To Do

We heroes need some “me” time, too; I have a life past saving you.

heroes, superman, to do lists

superhuman

I used to dream of invisibility… or flight.

authenticity, flying, Invisibility, Invisible Man, superman, superpower, vulnerability

to what we never tried

With so limited a vista, no wonder I haunt you! I’ve nothing better to do.

Norman Doors

Norman Doors confuse and are begging to be pulled… pushed?

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2021, breaking rules, Norman Doors

INTO PARADISE MAY THE ANGELS LEAD YOU

FEAR NOT! The angels always say.

A Prayer for Owen Meany, Angels, belief, courage, fear, John Irving

wave goodbye

Great Waves of contradiction meet in foam, the after-spray falls cool and wet on your face.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2021, choices, Go to the limits of your longing, rilke

the climb

The ladder takes me up to where? A too-small portal waiting there.

climb, destination, journey, ladder, perspective, pool, portal

Good God? – a ramble ’round golgotha

somanycontradictions

crucifixion, Good Friday, nonsense, sense, understanding

wrong turns?

I now own my road
And revel in its
redemptive reality.

And that will make all the difference.

#napowrimo, choices, regrets, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

More Alien Than I

And since you don’t get it,
You shouldn’t get This.

belonging, contemplation, contentment, resident alien, stranger

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