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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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  • Weight. Less.

    I lay down My Expectations

    December 23, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry
    expectations, experience, feeling, peace, thinking
    Weight. Less.
  • accounting for taste

    allure is in the observer’s oculus

    December 22, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #pixtowords, beauty, eye of the beholder, opinion, subjective
    accounting for taste
  • sunless solstice

    celestial cycles don’t control all darkness.

    December 21, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Suicide, Uncategorized
    depression, moon, night, solstice, sun
    sunless solstice
  • Six Flags falls on Hard Times

    open, but just barely.

    December 20, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    amusement, dreams, futility, pandemic
    Six Flags falls on Hard Times
  • laws of attraction – #SoCS

    Is that whole “opposites attract” thing really true, outside of magnetic properties?

    December 19, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, SoCS, Uncategorized
    attraction, magnets, needs, opposites, polar opposites, repel
    laws of attraction – #SoCS
  • head trip

    such a strange sleep

    December 18, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    dreaming, fiction, gaslighting, reality
    head trip
  • in limbo

    Solitude is a state of mind.

    December 17, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #pixtowords, choice, waiting
    in limbo
  • on advent (complete)

    i.we wait and wait…and…a sense, a thrill of Hope asdark gives Way to Light 9 But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of…

    December 16, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
  • on advent – viii

    perspective is key

    December 16, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christmas, Faith, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    eternity, haiku, John 1
    on advent – viii
  • on advent – vii

    waiting – too passive

    December 15, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    on advent – vii
  • on advent – vi

    the waiting gets old

    December 14, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Jesus, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry
    haiku, impatient, waiting
    on advent – vi
  • on advent – v

    Please, bring some tidings.

    December 13, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Kindness, Life, Love, Music, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #haiku, advent, god rest ye merry gentlemen, joy, third sunday, tidings
    on advent – v
  • on advent – iv

    incarnation… wow.

    December 12, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #haiku, advent, incarnation, Matthew 1
    on advent – iv
  • The Ultimate Ben Christmas Music List

    In case you need some ideas to freshen your list and/or want inside my holiday brain.

    December 11, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Christmas, Music, Uncategorized
    The Ultimate Ben Christmas Music List
  • on advent – iii

    “time” is beyond us.

    December 11, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose
    #haiku, advent, time, waiting
    on advent – iii
  • on advent – ii

    the crooked made straight

    December 10, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Jesus, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose
    #haiku, advent, hope, Isaiah 40, Luke 3, messianic, prophecy, waiting
    on advent – ii
  • on advent – i

    we wait and wait…and…

    December 9, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haiku, advent, darkness, hope, light, waiting
    on advent – i
  • hold on tight

    factory-installed

    December 8, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Suicide, Uncategorized
    choices, cliff, despair, determinism, fate, free will, hope, Thelma and Louise
    hold on tight
  • repetition suits me fine

    the triolet’s a form I lovethe repetition suits me finefamiliar fits me like a glovethe triolet’s a form I lovePerhaps some day I’ll rise aboveand find a form that’s mine – all minethe triolet’s a form I lovethe repetition suits me fine The triolet is a short poem of eight lines with only two rhymes…

    December 7, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness
    comfort zone, compliance, familiarity, repetition, risk
    repetition suits me fine
  • Sonnet XIV – Close to the Wind

    a proud sight beheld, from stern to the prow.

    December 6, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    drydock, repair, sails, ships, shipwreck, treasure
    Sonnet XIV – Close to the Wind
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