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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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  • I dream

    nightmares gone ~ I dream

    August 25, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Uncategorized
    dream, feelings, forbidden, nightmare
    I dream
  • no map required?

    finding the trailhead ~ halfway through the hike – is hard.

    August 24, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haikai, #haiku, #tanka, Anybody have a map, Dear Evan Hansen, map, two roads
    no map required?
  • Depth of Field

    But look at the blur ~ beyond the focused flower.

    August 23, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Freedom, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, balance, depth of field, focus
    Depth of Field
  • Falling Water

    white noise, really, but the best color of white I’ve ever heard.

    August 22, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Life, Love, Poetry, SoCS
    awe, contemplation, gravity, Munising, peace, Wagner Falls, waterfall
    Falling Water
  • first awake

    It feels good to be alone ~ first awake while all still sleep

    August 21, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #poetry, #triolet, awake, clarity, early
    first awake
  • Social Media Diplomacy

    We yell from both sides of the room ~ and only hear what echoes back ~ a world that’s only white or black

    August 20, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Donald Trump, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, Purpose
    #decima, #poetry, black and white, diplomacy, extremes, Facebook, social media
    Social Media Diplomacy
  • See Nothing

    When I See Nothing ~ I don’t like what I see ~ All that is left are feelings.

    August 19, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    See Nothing
  • See Something

    Today ~ I See Something.

    August 18, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    abstract, art, kyrie, meaning, urban decay
    See Something
  • See

    Art in abstraction allows you to see anything, or nothing at all.

    August 17, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    art, Freedom, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose
    art, beauty, connection, meaning, personal, ugliness, universal
    See
  • Sonnet VII – Still Walking

    Today I wear the shoes I chose myself; Turns out that flight is only for a time.

    August 16, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    alive, change, fit, fly, perspective, thrive, walk
    Sonnet VII – Still Walking
  • Feeling the Feels

    Feelings are foreign to me; at least feelings over which I don’t have some sort of control.

    August 15, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized
    Breethe, calm, cleansing breaths, coming out, feelings, Go to the limits of your longing, Jesus, mindfulness, present, regret, rilke, Suicide, worry
    Feeling the Feels
  • the poet’s irony

    I try to write of love ~ but words ne’er flow

    August 14, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    feeling, Love, mixed messages, passion, thinking, Twain
    the poet’s irony
  • Needful Things

    we tell our kids – needs come first ~ but want calls oh so loudly

    August 13, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haikai, #haiku, #tanka, need, priorities, rain, sun, want
    Needful Things
  • fire and ice

    spark to flame / kindled calefacation / solid ice to slogging slush.

    August 12, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    metaphor, rivers, veins
    fire and ice
  • rough winds

    These days, / we have better words

    August 12, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry
    click bait, derecho, drama, ecclesiastes, weather channel
    rough winds
  • countdown

    lift-off? or mission aborted?

    August 11, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    countdown
  • Correlation?

    graphs mean nothing now.

    August 10, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Donald Trump, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose
    #haikai, #tanka, causation, charts, correlation, data, excel, formula error, graphs, haiku, manipulated, Poetry
    Correlation?
  • armored

    That suit gets heavy, you know.

    August 9, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    amore, armor, breakthrough, chain mail, defense, guarded, helmet
    armored
  • Sleeper, Awake.

    I am currently calling us “Awake Ben” and “Sleeping Ben”, which (because I’m so clever, you know) works on a number of levels, both literally and figuratively.

    August 8, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized
    asleep, awake, cursing the fig tree, dissociation, nightmares, PTSD, swearing
    Sleeper, Awake.
  • defying atrophy

    look back at writings / thoughts of yore / and wonder where my / mind went.

    August 7, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized
    atrophy, past
    defying atrophy
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