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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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  • easy breezy

    the triolet fits my mood today, / the form, the rhyme, so easy

    August 6, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Poetry
    #triolet, complex, mood, shallow, simple
    easy breezy
  • SoCW

    So, it’s another day where my poetry fails to flow, but instead of retreating to the handy haiku, I’ve decided to free-write for half an hour and not allow myself any edits. I’ll even screen shot where it shows how many times I edit after saving my drafts just to prove it to myself and…

    August 5, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Life, Mental Illness, SoCS, Uncategorized
    authenticity, effort, mindfulness, presence, sufficiency
    SoCW
  • Breathing; space.

    Working through mental illness is not about being clever. ~ In fact, it’s the opposite of clever. Sometimes you have to stop thinking in order to ever think clearly again.

    August 4, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Life, Mental Illness, Prose, Purpose, Suicide
    depression, meditation, Mental Illness, Suicide, survivor
    Breathing; space.
  • publish or perish

    there – my life in a nutshell.

    August 3, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haiku, #poetry, #tanka, haikai, perfectionism
    publish or perish
  • short cuts

    smh

    August 2, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    abbreviations, code, easy, internet slang, short
    short cuts
  • should be sleeping

    though I really should be sleeping ~ leaking mind just keeps on seeping

    August 1, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    hypervigilence, insomnia, perseverance, persistence, pioneering, racing thoughts, rhymes
    should be sleeping
  • poison ivy

    stepping in the poison ivy / i only felt the cool of green / it wasn’t ’til much later / that I felt its bite – so mean.

    July 31, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose
    burn, choices, delay, itch, poison ivy, weeding
    poison ivy
  • simple

    some folks, I guess, / will always long / to have the mess, the wrong / all gone.

    July 30, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Justice, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    instant, messy, process, time
    simple
  • Werewolf

    He strains to break free ~ Daylight ties him securely ~ Moonbeams cut the cords ~

    July 29, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haikai, #haiku, #poetry, #tanka, anger, day, fear, nightmares, rage, werewolf
    Werewolf
  • mountaintop moments

    from the foothills of the ~ or the deepest valley ~ the icy peaks seem… ~ romantic.

    July 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    foothill, lack, moments, mountain, time
    mountaintop moments
  • wonderland

    a nice place to visit…

    July 27, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    blockage, flow, lake, nature, nice place to visit, peace, river, water
    wonderland
  • lighthouse

    Darkness – Not a thing ~ Merely an absence of light ~ Shine more brightly, friends.

    July 26, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose
    #haikai, #haiku, darkness, light, lighthouse, shine
    lighthouse
  • The Rainbow Sonnets – IV, V, & VI

    Then Clarity arrived at once, so Fast / Paint with the Rainbow, Life will come at last.

    July 25, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    art, authentic, colors, create, gray, paint by numbers, prism, promise, rainbow, spectrum, truth
    The Rainbow Sonnets – IV, V, & VI
  • Flesh on Bone

    Stones/Bones/Lifeless Zones

    July 24, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Death, Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, bone, brown, green, joshua tree, Life, muscle, stone, strong, wasteland
    Flesh on Bone
  • gravity

    physics’ laws apply / beyond the world / of weight and mass

    July 23, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    gravity, mass, Maya Angelou, mood, on the pulse of morning, perspective, physics, still I rise, weight
    gravity
  • Vesuvius

    it came upon us way too fast / some ran to life, we chose to hide.

    July 22, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #decima, cinders, died, dormant, hide, pompeii, run, vesuvius, volcano
    Vesuvius
  • Act Your Age?

    real children still look up at the stars and imagine magic, make a wish.

    July 21, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    adulting, age, childhood, dreaming, growth, hopeless, learning, wishes
    Act Your Age?
  • clear through to Z

    I’m tired of looking at straight lines / The distance from point A to B

    July 20, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    complex, draw, shadow, shapes, simple, straight, tracing
    clear through to Z
  • reaching

    progeny / feeling the pressure

    July 19, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Freedom, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    parenting, perfectionism
    reaching
  • guardrails

    good drivers don’t need no stinkin’ guardrails…

    July 18, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    amateur, driver, feelings, guardrail, novice, professional, reasoning, speed
    guardrails
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