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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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  • fingers need a break

    Writing has its time and place

    December 5, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    communication, haiku, miscommunication, tanka
    fingers need a break
  • strata

    “feel the feels” a friend affirmed, and deeply dug did I.

    December 4, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    strata
  • life of crime

    When I wrote It didn’t fit

    December 4, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Freedom, Justice, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    life of crime
  • roundabout

    The vicious circle carries on. Must think to make the thinking gone.

    December 3, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    roundabout
  • formunctional

    When words fall short, the form will aid

    December 2, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Purpose
    #decima, form, function, Purpose, rhyme, rhymes
    formunctional
  • cold ghosts

    Where are you? The time-lapsed blur teases your location.

    December 1, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, blur, cold, ghost, heat, reality, time exposure
    cold ghosts
  • Tempus Fugit

    Where will Kronos take me next?

    November 30, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry
    #tanka
    Tempus Fugit
  • Opting In – Part 2

    It turns out that “in” is not where one should always opt.

    November 29, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Justice, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    choices, consequences
    Opting In – Part 2
  • Opting In – #SoCS

    I still didn’t read those pages of tiny font explaining my terms of acceptance…

    November 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    cruise director, happiness, Life, love boat
    Opting In – #SoCS
  • worthless gods

    If only Coleridge had given Okeonos to that Mariner of olden days…

    November 27, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Donald Trump, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorized
    Coleridge, curse, gods, impotence, Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    worthless gods
  • for what will be

    Choose today to consider “why” we are blessed.

    November 26, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Charity, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Gratitude, others, Thanks, Thanksgiving
    for what will be
  • exposed

    a dagger through the heart is generally no one’s preference…

    November 25, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    reward, risk, vulnerability
    exposed
  • interphase

    undivided. improbable. preposterous.

    November 24, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, rest, wholeness
  • Sonnet XIII – “Alexa, Dim the Lights”

    When given option One or Two – try Three.

    November 23, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    binary, choices, dark, dim, light, non-binary, options
    Sonnet XIII – “Alexa, Dim the Lights”
  • The Perfect Fit

    My clothing covered my body just fine

    November 22, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose
    confidence, contentedness, fitting, triolet
    The Perfect Fit
  • Friday Night Fights – #SoCS

    Winning all around, right?

    November 21, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Love, SoCS, Uncategorized
    children, parents, pizza, responsibility
    Friday Night Fights – #SoCS
  • stupid is as stupid does

    If this is hate,then I guess that’s where I’ve fallen. In ‘Murica these days,can’t suggestmy good friends to the north(south, east, west…)MIGHT be handling aMAJOR PANDEMICbetter than we are. And THEY screwed upCanadian Thanksgiving. That’s not hate.That’s science. God bless us, everyone.The NOT INFERIOR idiots, too, I guess.

    November 20, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Politics
    #COVID, 'Merica, 'Murica, COVID-19, Facebook, Hate Speech
    stupid is as stupid does
  • don’t jinx it

    Do the unthinkable.

    November 19, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    don’t jinx it
  • ennui

    Yeah, I guess. Gotta go.

    November 18, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorized
    #haiku, ennui
    ennui
  • never enough

    straight from the Tempter’s oven

    November 17, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, balance, bread, diet, variety
    never enough
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