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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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  • More Alien Than I

    And since you don’t get it, You shouldn’t get This.

    April 1, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    belonging, contemplation, contentment, resident alien, stranger
    More Alien Than I
  • sublimation

    Now I can go about my day with relative peace of mind. Everything is relative.

    March 31, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Uncategorized
    forms of matter, knowing, science, sublimation, trivial, understanding
    sublimation
  • deafening whispers

    At first, the whispers are few and quiet.

    March 30, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry
    clarity, secrets, truth, whispers
    deafening whispers
  • Sonnet XXII – adieu to much ado

    I’ve heard that stupid is as stupid does; so I am done with “doing” stupid now.

    March 29, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets
    abiding, one day at a time, resting, striving
    Sonnet XXII – adieu to much ado
  • Head Squared

    Freedom is strange… New.

    March 28, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #haiku, #tanka, haikai
    Head Squared
  • Running… for What? – #SoCS

    Run, walk, crawl, and ALWAYS be open to go someplace you didn’t plan. You might have been given a faulty map at the start.

    March 27, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    Running… for What? – #SoCS
  • When You Need a Little Nonsense

    Doesn’t matter – I’m the writer; I can do whatever’s fun.

    March 26, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Frank’s Friday Focus, Freedom, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #FFFocus, breaking rules, conforming, nonsense
    When You Need a Little Nonsense
  • just me

    Of course I want to be the best; I’m programmed to achieve

    March 25, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    just me
  • life finds a way

    All is Chaos – Yet Structure and Purpose will always be found Within.

    March 23, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, chaos theory, natural, non-binary, structure, unnatural
    life finds a way
  • PTSD

    At the very least – PTSD starts with “Post”, So I’ve got that going for me…

    March 22, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Death, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Suicide, Uncategorized
    honesty, journey, PTSD, Suicide
    PTSD
  • Sonnet XXI – moons will be

    CONTROL is my Achilles’ heel, you see; I like to think that I can call the moon.

    March 21, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Death, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    #SFaS, control
    Sonnet XXI – moons will be
  • calendarize – #SoCS

    Why did someone feel the need to turn this noun into a verb when “PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR” worked just fine ever since we had… calendars?

    March 20, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Life, SoCS, Uncategorized
    business lingo, buzzwords
    calendarize – #SoCS
  • See and… Say What?

    We keep ourselves safe and become more ignorant by the day.

    March 19, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Frank’s Friday Focus, Freedom, Life
    #FFFocus, ignorance, risk aversion, risk tolerance, safety
    See and… Say What?
  • tubular tones

    wind chimes sing to me from the backyard this late winter morning

    March 18, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Music, Poetry, Uncategorized
    beauty, tintinnabulation, wind, wind chimes
    tubular tones
  • Sonnet XX – Switching Sides?

    So Sides I Switch – “Solutioning” right now; At least until my strength begins to wane.

    March 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Justice, Kindness, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    choice, positivity, solutionize
    Sonnet XX – Switching Sides?
  • Straightish Structures

    Who Belongs? You tell me…

    March 16, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    Straightish Structures
  • confounded

    How quaint the ways of Paradox! At common sense she gaily mocks!

    March 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose
    confounded
  • disorientation

    thanks to the time change, not sure of the clocks; not quite 5? not quite 6? the altered chronograph mocks.

    March 14, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Poetry
    awake, clock, daylight saving time, disoriented, morning, sleeping, time change
    disorientation
  • gilt-deep compassion

    Time to put some more of our “White Gilt” to work.

    March 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Charity, Frank’s Friday Focus, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Prose, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    compassion, doing, outrage
    gilt-deep compassion
  • movement

    what if backwards is the right direction?

    March 12, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose
    backwards, forwards, motion, perspective, right, Wrong
    movement
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