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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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  • Dualiquous

    His, the warmest cold

    January 12, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #haiku, #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, #tanka, denial, duality, struggle
    Dualiquous
  • Narcissi

    A Gift – Consistently Cared For.

    January 11, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Death, Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    chance, fate, narcissus, paperwhites
    Narcissi
  • Feeling for Switches in the Dark

    Ye who are enlightened so

    January 10, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    illuminate, light switch, responsibility
    Feeling for Switches in the Dark
  • Still. Way. Too. Many. Limits.

    White. European. Straight. Cisgendered. Wealthy. Males. For them – the sky’s the limit.

    January 9, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Coming Out – The Journey, Donald Trump, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Politics, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    glass ceiling, oppression, privilege, systemic injustice
    Still. Way. Too. Many. Limits.
  • The greatest ownership is embracement of emptiness.

    quantum physics says there is no such thing as emptiness. own. embrace. that.

    January 8, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Faith, Frank’s Friday Focus, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #FFFocus
    The greatest ownership is embracement of emptiness.
  • can’t we all just get along?

    There once was a day they stormed Congress.

    January 7, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Donald Trump, Freedom, Justice, Life, Poetry, Politics
    anarchy, Joe Biden, laws, limerick, Trump
    can’t we all just get along?
  • better than new

    Piece By Piece, For Peace.

    January 6, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    better than new
  • too far from here

    bear the arid flatness

    January 5, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Death, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, Death Valley
    too far from here
  • resolved

    no longer a fear-panicked youth

    January 4, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #triolet, authenticity, integrity, lies, masks, resolutions, truth
    resolved
  • Sonnet XV – unknow thyself?

    to know thyself above all else is wise, but wisdom wields a pain that burns like fire

    January 3, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    ignorance is bliss, know thyself, knowledge, self-awareness
    Sonnet XV – unknow thyself?
  • in the corner – #SoCS

    Give me a round room.

    January 2, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #SoCS, advantage, corner, hunted, wall
    in the corner – #SoCS
  • elision 202021

    some will fall forward

    January 1, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Frank’s Friday Focus, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haiku, change, new year, same
    elision 202021
  • bottoms up

    we might’s well drink the brew.

    December 31, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Donald Trump, Freedom, Justice, Life, Love, Politics, Uncategorized
    2020, coming out, COVID-19, perspective, quarantine
    bottoms up
  • hope’s folly?

    HopeAlwaysLooksUp ~Inexplicably.~ ColdThinAirLacks what is neededto Sustain. ~Nevertheless~ There is further fromHere andthatmuchclosertotheSun. HOPE ~ PIC AND A WORD CHALLENGE #259 This week let’s find Hope everywhere, or seek something else to inspire you in this photograph of a solar halo in the cirrus-strewn sky above the Tantalus Range in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada.. The Pic and a…

    December 30, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, contentment
    hope’s folly?
  • Perplexing Theology Stress Disorder

    I MUST BE DOING THIS WRONG.

    December 29, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Purpose, Uncategorized
    earn, Love, Reformed Theology, Theology, Wesleyan Theology, works
    Perplexing Theology Stress Disorder
  • Family Fractured?

    I, ultimately, don’t get to choose.

    December 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    choice, family, identity
    Family Fractured?
  • defy the box

    Sometimes fate/the Universe/God/biological determinism/behavioral conditioning shines upon you.

    December 27, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    authenticity, binary thinking, boxes, boxing day, integrity, labels
    defy the box
  • tempore vanitatis

    measure the passing of our existence

    December 26, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Death, Donald Trump, Faith, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    days, eternity, meaningless, pointless, time, vanity, waiting, years
    tempore vanitatis
  • God is not dead

    God is not dead, nor doth He sleep

    December 25, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Charity, Christmas, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Music, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, longfellow
    God is not dead
  • bleak sufficient

    Enough. Fall down!

    December 24, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christmas, Faith, Life, Love, Music, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    blackout, Christina Rosetti, contentedness, enough, erasure poetry, In the Bleak Midwinter
    bleak sufficient
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