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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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  • unanswered

    question asked – reply was vapid

    October 8, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    answers, debate, questions, triolet, unanswered
    unanswered
  • a work of unbroken openness – part 3

    let connections define gaps

    October 7, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Life, Mental Illness, Music, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    connectedness, connection, openwork
    a work of unbroken openness – part 3
  • a work of unbroken openness – part 2

    Look at all those holes…

    October 6, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Life, Music, Poetry, Prose, Purpose, Uncategorized
    connectedness, durchbrochene Arbeit, openwork
    a work of unbroken openness – part 2
  • a work of unbroken openness – part 1

    durchbrochene Arbeit

    October 4, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Music, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    durchbrochene Arbeit, limerick, rest, sabbath
    a work of unbroken openness – part 1
  • spin cycle – #SoCS

    wash, rinse, repeat.

    October 3, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    dizzy, news cycle, political spin, washing machine
    spin cycle – #SoCS
  • plot lines

    without conflict, the story goes no place fast.

    October 2, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    antagonist, conflict, plot, protagonist
    plot lines
  • in his cups

    today I will make no amends.

    October 1, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    beer, drunk
    in his cups
  • De-Bait

    policy lures some

    September 30, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Donald Trump, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haikai, #haiku, #tanka, debate, presidential
    De-Bait
  • off-white

    Nothing is ever truly black and white.

    September 29, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Freedom, Life, Poetry
    colors, flesh, Hex code, nature, RGB
    off-white
  • Catch with Joe Biden

    Last night I played catch with Joe Biden – Not for real but while sleeping in bed.

    September 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Kindness, Life, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    acceptance, compassion, imperfection, Joe Biden
    Catch with Joe Biden
  • exposed roots and bare foot(s)

    time for some “fresh kicks”?

    September 27, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    exposed roots and bare foot(s)
  • mesmerized – #SoCS

    snap out of it

    September 26, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #SoCS, hypnosis, lemmings, Mesmer, thinking
    mesmerized – #SoCS
  • dissonance

    what makes one worthy?

    September 25, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose
    being, dissonance, doing
    dissonance
  • Sonnet IX – Presence

    The ache which seems will never go away, one day shall flee like so much cloud and mist.

    September 24, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    focus, future, mindfulness, past, present, today
    Sonnet IX – Presence
  • the portal

    many ways from here to there.

    September 23, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #choices, #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    the portal
  • be

    calm ~ not just a state of mind.

    September 22, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    be
  • truth revisited

    being real is hard

    September 21, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haikai, #haiku, #tanka, grace, real, truth
    truth revisited
  • conduction

    The sun is in the sky, it’s true, but warmth for life – it comes from you.

    September 20, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    conduction
  • Devestation – #SoCS

    Light always turns away darkness.

    September 19, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, SoCS
    #RBG
    Devestation – #SoCS
  • B1G – #SoCS

    September Saturdays are for college football. Period.

    September 19, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Purpose, SoCS
    #B1G, #Big Ten, #college, #COVID, #football, #quarantine
    B1G – #SoCS
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