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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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  • the end? – narcissi, revisited

    The end was not what I had expected.

    January 30, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Life, Love, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    Death, growth, Life, narcissus, presumptions, progress, SoCS, time, waiting
    the end? – narcissi, revisited
  • Waitin’ for Moby to Show

    There’s some up top and some below, Just waitin’ for Moby to show (Huh!)

    January 29, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Frank’s Friday Focus, Life, Music, Uncategorized
    #FFFocus, Sea Shanty, TikTok, Wellerman, whaling
    Waitin’ for Moby to Show
  • Frozen Heart

    There’s beauty and there’s danger here – Split the ice apart!

    January 28, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Life, Love, Music, Uncategorized
    Disney, Frozen, Frozen Heart
    Frozen Heart
  • deconstructing

    If oft you feel like options lack, refuse to see things “white” or “black”

    January 27, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    All You Need is Love, Beatles, Jesus
    deconstructing
  • hidden by the bright

    filtered light is still quite bright and even more revealing

    January 26, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, bright, clouds, diffuse, hide, shadows, sunlight
    hidden by the bright
  • second place is first loser?

    Not playing is better, he reckoned.

    January 25, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Justice, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    competition, contentment, first loser, quitter
    second place is first loser?
  • the unlit candle

    I may have done the gifting wrong

    January 24, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    atmosphere, candles, light, mood, unwanted gifts, warmth
    the unlit candle
  • Pokin’ and Prayin’ – #SoCS

    If you Capitalize Random Words, they hold more God Power. Little known fact. You’re welcome.

    January 23, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Life, Mental Illness, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #SoCS, Bible, Divination, interpretation, Intolerance
    Pokin’ and Prayin’ – #SoCS
  • Benjifer Bones – #FFFocus

    “Benjifer Bones” the old cat intones, “shall never be one of those usual drones”

    January 22, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Frank’s Friday Focus, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #FFFocus, Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot, Transgender, Ze, Zir
    Benjifer Bones – #FFFocus
  • Wrung Out

    hazard the hopeful exhalation.

    January 21, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    adulting, parenting, self-care
    Wrung Out
  • Thank you, Numbers. Thank you.

    So, have a good life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

    January 20, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Donald Trump, Life, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorized
    erasure poetry
    Thank you, Numbers. Thank you.
  • Another Land

    Yo soy de otra tierra

    January 20, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Charity, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorized
    Another Land
  • Lifeguard on Duty

    I keep moving my arms away, but those ossified weights just keep pulling her under.

    January 19, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Mental Illness, Prose, Purpose
    drowning, dversepoets.com, parenting, Prosery, responsibility, sinking, swimming
    Lifeguard on Duty
  • States of Matter

    The Freezing comes and goes

    January 18, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, freezing, global warming, seasons
  • I Am What I Am

    Life’s not worth a damn,’Til you can say, “Hey world, I am what I am.”

    January 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    I Am What I Am
  • Circular Wars

    It’s easy to rise on the called-for occasion…

    January 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Donald Trump, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorized
    choice, circular firing squad, integrity, take a stand
    Circular Wars
  • The Next First Thing? – #SoCS

    There is no real “First Thing”

    January 16, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Poetry, SoCS, Uncategorized
    priorities, right, SoCS, Wrong
    The Next First Thing? – #SoCS
  • The Porkchop Show – #FFFocus

    Hankering hard for Alisa’s fine porkchops, Victoria Parker’d her Tempest DuJour on the Via de Coco Shangela. Coiffed like theQuarrelsome Queenthat she was,She strodeto the Venus D-lite. Fed to the gills,Fully sated and slaked,She pulled out herrhinestone-clad clutch;And found that her cravinghad cost her far morethan just one Penny Trationand next Summer’s wage.

    January 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Frank’s Friday Focus, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #porkchopoftheshow, #rupaul
    The Porkchop Show – #FFFocus
  • beware of dog

    signs don’t help.

    January 14, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Donald Trump, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics
    #Merica
    beware of dog
  • Sonnet XVI – Time Tasting

    That day shall come, too soon , notfastenough;

    January 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    calendar, centering, clock, futility, mindfulness, present, time
    Sonnet XVI – Time Tasting
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