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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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  • on communication – i

    foundations of war or peace

    October 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haikai, #haiku, #tanka, communication, double reed, innocence, oboe, vibrate, vocal cords, vocalise
    on communication – i
  • It’s Coming.

    into her cavernous gullet everything goes.

    October 27, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, fear
    It’s Coming.
  • love and the cosmos

    the closer we get to “getting it”, the more there is to “get”.

    October 26, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    absolutes, answers, Big Bang, Dark Energy, earth-centric, flat earth, objective, questions, subjective, systems, truth
    love and the cosmos
  • Sonnet XI – machete jungle

    ’tis as I feared, we’ve entered zone called “friends”;in search of different – more – though this is fun.while something still continues – something ends;it all feels o’er before it had begun.I wax dramatic – ’tis the role I play;Life in my head exists in excess size.expecting nothing used to be my way;expecting now just…

    October 25, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    dating, friendship, relationships
    Sonnet XI – machete jungle
  • starts with ‘m’… Every. Single. Day. #SoCS

    you could wake up to way worse.

    October 24, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, SoCS, Uncategorized
    comparison, messy, perspective
    starts with ‘m’… Every. Single. Day. #SoCS
  • under repair

    so much work yet to be done.

    October 23, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry
    #haikai, #haiku, #tanka, mental health, Mental Illness, process, psychiatrist, psychologist
    under repair
  • in dashikis and love beads

    a drive-by earthrise in dashiki and love beads

    October 22, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    in dashikis and love beads
  • whistling in the graveyard

    flesh-stripped scaffolding sharply buttress a new kind of body.

    October 20, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Death, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, breathing, cemetery, graveyard, superstition
    whistling in the graveyard
  • life imitates

    I see some imitation here

    October 19, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    imitation, life imitates art, morning
    life imitates
  • Creatio ex nihilo

    a lone voice
asking its questions
innocently,
plaintively,
into the void.

    October 18, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Life, Love, Music, Poetry, Uncategorized
    A Major, Adagio, K 488, Mozart, pain, perfection, Piano Concerto, pleasure
    Creatio ex nihilo
  • New Driver – #SoCS

    It’s time.

    October 17, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #SoCS, driver's license, driving, license, spelling
    New Driver – #SoCS
  • full power – #SoCS

    If we’re gonna hang, you gotta hang with me – vocabulary and all.

    October 17, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Love, SoCS
    #SoCS
    full power – #SoCS
  • flesh

    oxygen ~ without it – dead in minutes.

    October 16, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    massage, survival, touch, yearn
    flesh
  • Land of the Free?

    Alas, the dream of freedom fades ~ You scoff and think I overstate.

    October 15, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Gay marriage, Justice, Poetry, Politics
    #decima
    Land of the Free?
  • Mittwoch

    Midweek is now here

    October 14, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #haikai, #haiku, #tanka, middle
    Mittwoch
  • Sonnet X – night blindness

    The thing most true was never true for me / until one day it dawned and ended night.

    October 13, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    darkness, falsehood, light, shadow, tripping, truth
    Sonnet X – night blindness
  • insandouts of Days and Notdays

    #nationaldayof…..

    October 12, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #nationalchickenandwafflesday, #nationalcomingoutday, Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples Day
    insandouts of Days and Notdays
  • Stop With the Boxes

    please, please, please – don’t try to put me in a box.

    October 11, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Gay marriage, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #nationalcomingoutday, #pride, #ProudBoys, coming out, shame
    Stop With the Boxes
  • Just Right – #SoCS

    everything in moderation.

    October 10, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Justice, Life, Poetry, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #SoCS, goldilocks, medium
    Just Right – #SoCS
  • less rest

    she rests less than her body demands

    October 9, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Poetry
    anxiety, insomnia
    less rest
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