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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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  • shadowspeak

    let’s listen to our shadow for it tells us where we’ve been or where we will be.

    April 18, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Kindness, Life, Love, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Uncategorized
    dark, future, light, past, shadow
    shadowspeak
  • Lunacy

    Who knows what else that thing can do?

    April 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Uncategorized
    lunacy, lunar cycles, lunatic, moon
    Lunacy
  • 6 by 6 – it will… transfix?

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

    April 16, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    depth, form follows function, function follows form, meaning, rhyme, rhyming, shallow
    6 by 6 – it will… transfix?
  • Click on the Moon

    If only…

    April 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry
    click, control, icon, rest, sleep, snooze
    Click on the Moon
  • innuendo

    Angry Balls, my ass.

    April 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    innuendo
  • Son of the Right Side

    Live into your name!

    April 14, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose
    Benjamin, names
    Son of the Right Side
  • Necessary Irritants

    GOOD LORD – IT JUST KEEPS COMING.

    April 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Life, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    allergies, irritants, necessary, pollen
    Necessary Irritants
  • Winged Haunt

    Other creatures fly with far less hope.

    April 12, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Life, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Suicide
    Aeneid, harpy, it could be worse, perspective, Virgil
    Winged Haunt
  • whatever works

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

    April 11, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Allen Wench, Heart, Hex Screw, Love, luck, opportunity, persistence, Phillips Screwdriver, The Who, timing, Tools
    whatever works
  • growing into your name

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

    April 11, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    growing into your name
  • Lachrymose Vodka

    Those should have been mine to cry

    April 10, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry
    tanka, tears
    Lachrymose Vodka
  • To Do

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

    April 9, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Justice, Life, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    heroes, superman, to do lists
    To Do
  • superhuman

    I used to dream of invisibility… or flight.

    April 9, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    authenticity, flying, Invisibility, Invisible Man, superman, superpower, vulnerability
    superhuman
  • to what we never tried

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

    April 8, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    to what we never tried
  • Norman Doors

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

    April 7, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Life, Love, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #napowrimo, #napowrimo2021, breaking rules, Norman Doors
    Norman Doors
  • INTO PARADISE MAY THE ANGELS LEAD YOU

    FEAR NOT! The angels always say.

    April 6, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Death, Faith, Life, Love, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    A Prayer for Owen Meany, Angels, belief, courage, fear, John Irving
    INTO PARADISE MAY THE ANGELS LEAD YOU
  • wave goodbye

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

    April 5, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #napowrimo, #napowrimo2021, choices, Go to the limits of your longing, rilke
    wave goodbye
  • the climb

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

    April 4, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    climb, destination, journey, ladder, perspective, pool, portal
    the climb
  • Good God? – a ramble ’round golgotha

    somanycontradictions

    April 3, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Death, Faith, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    crucifixion, Good Friday, nonsense, sense, understanding
    Good God? – a ramble ’round golgotha
  • wrong turns?

    I now own my road And revel in its redemptive reality. And that will make all the difference.

    April 2, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #napowrimo, choices, regrets, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
    wrong turns?
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