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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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  • evangel

    color me puzzled and tired.

    September 18, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Charity, Christianity, Faith, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    evangelical, Faith
    evangel
  • the greatest of these…

    They say love lasts forever.

    September 17, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    1 Corinthians 13, Faith, Hebrews 11, hope, Love
    the greatest of these…
  • rosette

    high above us, the eye of pigmented silica emits diffuse light.

    September 16, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Faith, Jesus, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    rosette
  • Suckers

    There’s a sucker born every minute.

    September 15, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    Suckers
  • mosaic

    partnersof all kindsjourney with you not at you,not to you,not out of a sense.of.duty. “in it to win it”a clumsy cliché, but apropos. individual experiences;different. sometimes as disparate as two people can be – or four, eight, ten, thirteen. doesn’t meanitcan’t.be.done. together. the shared experience – a complex mosaic all those little pieceseventually come togetherinto…

    September 13, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    mosaic, partners, tiles
    mosaic
  • downstream – #SoCS

    water carries life and death at once.

    September 12, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, SoCS, Uncategorized
    Atwood, dystopia, future, hope, Huxley, Orwell, resistance, Utopia
    downstream – #SoCS
  • dreamverse

    In a dream I wrote a sonnet, then found everything was wrong.

    September 11, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    control, dreams, metaphor, self-care
    dreamverse
  • The Meeting

    Enter the space now

    September 10, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose
    #haikai, brain, haiku, Heart, japanese, soul, wholeness
    The Meeting
  • September

    Summer still nips at the heels; that playful puppy.

    September 9, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    autumn, fall
    September
  • flow control

    pour from my soul unimpeded

    September 8, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    control, damage, flow, gravity, holding back, natural
    flow control
  • blur

    My eleven-year-old mind is often a blur, but some things are crystal clear.

    September 7, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    fatherhood, priorities, time
    blur
  • family ties

    some days I lose my mind and they lose theirs, but mostly – we lose our hearts.

    September 6, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    family, hiding, loss, Love
    family ties
  • destination unknown

    Sometimes you take the wheel even when letting someone else drive is easier.

    September 5, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    control, driving, steering wheel
    destination unknown
  • side-effects

    I forgot this part

    September 3, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haikai, #haiku, #tanka, being, choices, feelings, hurting
    side-effects
  • cj oolong

    some see such habits – look with gall; ~ no harm, no foul – and so… repeat.

    September 2, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    black dragon, chinese, oolong, sino
    cj oolong
  • stop the world

    dona nobis pacem

    September 1, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #pixtowords, #valencia cathedral, center, centre, centrifugal, centrifuge, middle, spin
    stop the world
  • broken crutch

    Affirmation on the wall ~ “You Got This” ~ three words fix it all.

    August 31, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    broken crutch
  • Sonnet VIII – labor pains?

    Tools abound to fix what mends are needed.

    August 30, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    #sonnet, hands, holistic, labor, toil, Tools
    Sonnet VIII – labor pains?
  • #streaking

    Made ya look. I have a 42 day posting streak on the line, and I guess you can’t completely take perfectionism out of the boy, cuz here I am. I have absolutely nothing to give this morning, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna blow my streak. That’s probably pathological. I’m going to go drink…

    August 27, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    #streaking
  • rhythm of another kind

    overnight rain is ~ thoroughly thrumming ~ without meter ~ or rhyme

    August 26, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Music, Poetry, Uncategorized
    beat, beat peculiar, change, peace, rhythm, sameness
    rhythm of another kind
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