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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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  • Keep The Change?

    To me it was Their transaction: / A payment / Or collection / Now, literally Everything is given away.

    July 26, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    44 words, quadrille
    Keep The Change?
  • Sweet Sixteen – Sonnet XXVIII

    And while I knew well it would not be a dream / I expected a little less grinding of gears.

    July 25, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    moodiness, parenting, sweet sixteen, sweetness
    Sweet Sixteen – Sonnet XXVIII
  • Can you paint with all the colours? – #SoCS

    I can code-switch with the best of them.

    July 24, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    Can you paint with all the colours? – #SoCS
  • I’m Spicy!

    Let my palate adjust / To the heat / And the sweet,

    July 23, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    overwhelmed
    I’m Spicy!
  • I’m Just Me

    I write alone, in verse or prose / Enjoy it, if you predispose.

    July 22, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    broken, follow, meter, rhyme, rules
    I’m Just Me
  • Look without Edges

    No matter the Framing, the Mat, or the Pane / The Whole of The Story it shall not contain.

    July 21, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    Freedom, limitations, limits, more than meets the eye
    Look without Edges
  • dissonance rules

    We are all creatures / of habit, acting / as we always do.

    July 20, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Poetry
    habit, simple pleasures
    dissonance rules
  • And thus I proceed – Amen.

    Even with functioning eyes / Seeing can never be forced.

    July 19, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Faith, Freedom, Justice, Life, Poetry
    Justice, morality, perception, reality, relativity, truth
    And thus I proceed – Amen.
  • Mirror

    Loneliness is not / Truancy of Them; / ‘Tis the Roar of Self

    July 18, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    alone, Loneliness, self-image, solitude
    Mirror
  • “Moist” – #SoCS

    Moist is for cake. Only. Ever.

    July 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Prose, Purpose, SoCS
    #SoCS, hated words, moist, northern Michigan, shovel, snow
    “Moist” – #SoCS
  • I’ve checked the flights from here to there

    I’ve checked the flights from here to there, / And there to here, of course (of course!) / I’m sighing, and my Soul’s laid bare.

    July 16, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    villanelle
    I’ve checked the flights from here to there
  • Just Air

    Just / Air

    July 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Music, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, Creation, Music, singing
    Just Air
  • rain, rain, go away?

    My morning’s skies of blue soon turned to gray / The moment’s respite gone in sheets of rain

    July 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Death, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #triolet, climate change, discontent, triolet
    rain, rain, go away?
  • Step Into the Sun

    All I ever do is run. So how do I step in… Step into the sun?

    July 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Uncategorized
    Dear Evan Hansen, fear, self-loathing, words fail
    Step Into the Sun
  • daunted

    he enters the fray daunted – so much like before

    July 12, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Poetry
    #haiku, #tanka
    daunted
  • Sonnet XXVII – formed in space

    Some bits and bytes of sound and light combine

    July 11, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    control, fire, heat, trust, waiting
    Sonnet XXVII – formed in space
  • The Tyranny of Tomorrow – #SoCS

    So, today’s word prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday (#SoCS) is “hope“. HA! HA HA! I just wrote a poem earlier this week for the Pic and a Word Challenge that I entitled, “leaving hope behind”, prompting a friend or two to inquire, “Are you doing ok?” Hope is a funny thing. It so often…

    July 10, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Life, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    The Tyranny of Tomorrow – #SoCS
  • Yoda gets it.

    Always with you it cannot be done.

    July 9, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Mental Illness
    Yoda gets it.
  • spiritus

    the breath so long withheld

    July 8, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    anxiety, breathing, cleansing, respiration, spirit
    spiritus
  • forward

    where again is there?

    July 7, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Faith, Freedom, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haiku, #tanka, choice, fate, haiku, tanka
    forward
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