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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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  • Sonnet XXV – better love for you

    when I focus on myself, not others, the benefits flow to sons and mothers.

    June 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets
    Glennon Doyle, self-care, Untamed
    Sonnet XXV – better love for you
  • plug a flame into it

    the darkness did confound.

    June 12, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    lanterns, lights, matches
    plug a flame into it
  • pathway to peace

    joy and grief often reside in neighboring rooms

    June 11, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized
    Faith & Mental Health", Pathway to Peace, Steve Austin
    pathway to peace
  • wondrously melded

    joy and grief collide

    June 10, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Death, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Music, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #tanka, dissonance, harmony, Music, peace, tanka
    wondrously melded
  • Righted Rights

    maybe someday we’ll get that Right Right.

    June 9, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, Angela Davis
    Righted Rights
  • The Call

    I, too, have heard the call and understand.

    June 8, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Suicide, Uncategorized
    The Call
  • spiral

    only the long trip finds warm light

    June 7, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    cycle, fibonacci, nautilus, shame, spiral
    spiral
  • Children of God

    It’s time they – we… reinspect the throngs under the steeple.

    June 6, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #pride, Ae Freislighe, difference, dunadh, Pride, Pride Flag, similarities
    Children of God
  • No Strings Attached

    Strings are for marionettes – Dead – Without a Master to pull them.

    June 5, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #pride, gay pride, Lowell, Pride, Pride Flag, pride month
    No Strings Attached
  • This Time Around

    Another year – orbit the sun. Same as the ones I’ve muddled through?

    June 4, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    This Time Around
  • Contrasting Companions

    dark and light near all along.

    June 2, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    coexist, contrast, dark, juxtaposition, light
    Contrasting Companions
  • Live Your Life

    That’s all I have to say about that.

    June 1, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love
    #pride, gay pride
    Live Your Life
  • August 1968

    I remember an uncle, who left this earth as I arrived.

    May 31, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Death, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose
    friendship, Memorial Day, Richard Soper, Vietnam
    August 1968
  • but even now, just about me I need

    can one night do?

    May 30, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    acrostic, cell phone, predictive text, random
    but even now, just about me I need
  • it all leads to here – so what?

    Shit happens. If you don’t believe that, you aren’t paying attention.

    May 28, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, Uncategorized
    it all leads to here – so what?
  • Silver Linings

    Finding good in the bad. That’s my new hobby.

    May 27, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Kindness, Life, Love
    Silver Linings
  • past painter’s present

    Now, we go inside to experience the past painter’s present.

    May 26, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Death, Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Suicide, Uncategorized
    past, perception, present, Starry Night, unseen value, Van Gogh
    past painter’s present
  • sanctuary

    sanctuary should always be wherever we find ourselves…

    May 25, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Charity, Christianity, Faith, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    sanctuary, separated
    sanctuary
  • knowitall

    “I’m old enough; I know it all,” she stated; “Not numbers, books, but ways of love and living.”

    May 24, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    generations, parenting, Rispetto, roles
    knowitall
  • no recall

    A bad day for the poet

    May 23, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry
    haiku
    no recall
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