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  • Pic and a Word ChallengeThe Pic and a Word Challenge comes from Patrick Jennings’ site www.pixtowords.com Each week he provides a photograph of his along with a single word. The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as points of inspiration to create something — a photograph, a painting, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, longread or just a few words. We are welcome to use these two elements (photograph and word) literally, thematically or metaphorically. If we create both images and words, all the better.
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  • This Thing Called Hope – Sonnet XXXIII

    So pushing on, I live my Best Todays / And Trust Tomorrow’s Hope will Suit our Ways.

    September 19, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Sonnets
    hope, optimist, pessimist, realist, reality
    This Thing Called Hope – Sonnet XXXIII
  • Some Missing Pieces Aren’t Meant to be Filled. – #SoCS

    Here’s the truth: we’re all incomplete puzzles and will likely ALWAYS be incomplete, even if we finally get our shit together with healthy spirituality, quality therapy and/or the right medication. In fact, spirituality, therapy and meds just help us deal with the fact that we have missing pieces and (hopefully) stop us from trying to…

    September 18, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #SoCS
    Some Missing Pieces Aren’t Meant to be Filled. – #SoCS
  • blackened quiet

    knowing the nature of cycles is often all that moves us forward.

    September 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Charity, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose
    blackened quiet
  • The Dose

    I can’t even begin to unwind.

    September 16, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness
    medication, Mental Illness, shame
    The Dose
  • Unexpected Roots

    One must learn to bask in Here’s Now Glow
/ Before sprinting to the Next Brighter There.

    September 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry
    Unexpected Roots
  • Outside of Form

    Sometimes Magic happens…

    September 14, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry
    Outside of Form
  • I come to warmth from cold which reigned supreme

    Now hoarfrost melts to liquid dew agleam

    September 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    thaw, villanelle
    I come to warmth from cold which reigned supreme
  • water withheld

    When still waters run deep / The deep can often roil with peril;

    September 12, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry
    conflict, destruction, feelings, harmony, peace, truth
    water withheld
  • Where…

    Some days I think I’ve gone numb.

    September 11, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    Where…
  • Missed Connections

    Therapy today…

    September 10, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry
    #haiku, tanka
    Missed Connections
  • Striving Ends… When?

    My challenging is not yet finished. So… When?

    September 9, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Sestina
    Striving Ends… When?
  • blue skies smiled

    When clouds of witnesses surrounded, I used them to cover my flaws.

    September 7, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry
    nonet
    blue skies smiled
  • Overlay

    Even as colouroverlays the monochrome, I see no beauty here. Only chaosand waste. Lives. Ways of Life. Stolen. And for what? Colour Overlaying Monochrome. Perhaps… It should be the other way around? The Pic and a Word Challenge is (usually) a weekly creativity prompt offered Mondays. Photo Credit:Patrick JenningsResidential School Lost Children DemonstrationGallery StepsVancouver Art GalleryRobson SquareVancouverBritish…

    September 6, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Justice, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    Overlay
  • The Ageless Song – Sonnet XXXII

    For Fear just serves to keep us in The Dark; Embrace the Verse and on New Paths embark.

    September 5, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    The Ageless Song – Sonnet XXXII
  • Impenetrable – #SoCS

    I printed a poster for myself. I needed it for my cubicle. I needed something. Anything.

    September 4, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Life, SoCS
    Impenetrable – #SoCS
  • In a Nutshell

    back to the basics

    September 3, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    come what may, discipline, routine
    In a Nutshell
  • Unloading Some Heavy

    It’s been a long year. Since coming out in June 2020, things haven’t been all rainbows and sunshine, and before I knew it, I was hiding again. Time to cut that shit out.

    September 2, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Video cum Vade Mecum
  • The Waiting

    I’ve a video here waiting / To unearth what lies beneath.

    September 2, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry
    The Waiting
  • Breathe

    I’m back Here from There

    August 23, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose
    #haiku, #tanka, haiku, tanka
    Breathe
  • Retreat

    I’m going to retreat; It’s the only way forward.

    August 19, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Retreat
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