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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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  • Afghanistan – August 2021

    Dreams Dashedof Desired Destination We’ll now never get There from Here As if there had been a Chanceof anything other thanHerein the first place. Since There can’t get Here Perhaps we could gowith you now to the SomeplaceYou wanted us to Become? Instead, Hopes are crushedin cruel climaxas the blades of a cruelreligiousregime hack at…

    August 18, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Justice, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    abandoned, Afghanistan, airlift, broken promises, hope, hopeless, Kabul
    Afghanistan – August 2021
  • sexualdread

    Out there is a world / I can choose to inhabit;

    August 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    authenticity, dread, Facing Fears, fear, honesty, kink, openness, polyamory
    sexualdread
  • The Unmatched Song – Sonnet XXXI

    I hear the cardinal whistling in my morn / And wonder what he’s thinking as he sings

    August 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    The Unmatched Song – Sonnet XXXI
  • Luck Ain’t Got a Thing to Do With It

    For me, “luck” falls into a bucket of words I find generally unhelpful, like “blessed”, “fated”, “chance”, “good fortune” and the like. They are all words that remove most, if not all, sense of self-determination and/or the fact that sometimes things just “happen”, both good and bad.

    August 14, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #SoCS
    Luck Ain’t Got a Thing to Do With It
  • Wound Down

    Another week / winds / down.

    August 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Poetry
    Wound Down
  • Know It All

    I liked to think I Knew It All / The Knowing only takes half-way

    August 12, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry
    #triolet, arrogant, doing, knowing, smug
    Know It All
  • Somewhere – Some. Where?

    I gasped, agog, at the gaping maw / Ready to swallow me whole

    August 10, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Purpose
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, somewhere
    Somewhere – Some. Where?
  • Demanding My Writes

    No matter what the digits say / If I don’t Write, day goes astray

    August 9, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Poetry
    Demanding My Writes
  • Life Uncovered – Sonnet XXX

    The unexamined life is not worth living, / And Life Uncovered – Hidden – Unforgiving.

    August 8, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets
    hiding, Life, opening up, shame
    Life Uncovered – Sonnet XXX
  • Wee – #SoCS

    This shall be a wee post.

    August 7, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, SoCS, Uncategorized
    Wee – #SoCS
  • instantisized gratificalitousness.

    This is one of those times.

    August 6, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    focus, hindsight, inconceivable, instant gratification, nonsense, Patience, sense
    instantisized gratificalitousness.
  • 6w5

    Am I a fake – a fraud without a prayer? Or am I finally down to plain old me?

    August 5, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Colby Martin, Progressive Christianity, The Alter, The Shift
    6w5
  • unknowns beneath

    Still waters run deep; as it is with those who paddle silently upon them.

    August 4, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Faith, Freedom, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    depth, knowing, surface
    unknowns beneath
  • Right On Time

    I once had a therapist who said dreams mean nothing – just nocturnal synaptic activity as our brain filters and sorts our waking activity.

    August 3, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Charity, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Uncategorized
    Right On Time
  • What Once Was Known – Sonnet XXIX

    I wake to see the chrysalis transluce

    August 1, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Sonnets
    butterfly, caterpillar, chrysalis, timing, transformation, waiting
    What Once Was Known – Sonnet XXIX
  • Leftovers? – #SoCS

    pray… that what I set free is worth more than what he leaves behind.

    July 31, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #SoCS, butterfly, caterpillar, chrysalis
    Leftovers? – #SoCS
  • beyond the iris

    I look at your eyes / and forget they have color.

    July 30, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #haiku, #tanka
    beyond the iris
  • too quickly passing

    Equinox / our remaining hope / before / Darker / Interrupts / Dark

    July 29, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    too quickly passing
  • biofeedback

    We Have No Choice But To Comply.

    July 28, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    biofeedback, control, meditation, mindfulness, pulse
    biofeedback
  • faux foodstuff

    – models of masculinity –

    July 27, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, alliteration, meatless, phallic
    faux foodstuff
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