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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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  • dangerous tools

    she wants her hands upon the tool / the danger that it holds compels

    July 17, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #decima, danger, Freedom, maturity, noose, protective, respect, restraints, risk, spirit
    dangerous tools
  • Sonnet III – What Was and Ne’er Will Be

    the door before me bids me walk on through, but pieces – grief and anger – won’t allow.

    July 17, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    anger, crying, fear, feelings, grief, haunt, hurting, pain, rage
    Sonnet III – What Was and Ne’er Will Be
  • soaked

    rain falls to the earth /
lightly but with great intent /
sere to soaked means life

    July 16, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Life, Poetry
    intent, rain, sere, soaked, wet
    soaked
  • false flags?

    thought peace was forged 
/ a new flag flown

    July 16, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Justice, Life, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    anger, armistice, bandage, ceasefire, flags, grief, infection, poison, retreat, septic shock, treaty, war
    false flags?
  • Sonnet II – hope’s lament

    I fear that I shall never live to see / a world that’s lived the way her God designed

    July 14, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets
    charades, Christ, Christianity, church, fruit of the spirit, hope, Jesus, judge
    Sonnet II – hope’s lament
  • survivor

    PTSD / doesn’t happen to me / that’s for soldiers / and survivors of abuse

    July 13, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Suicide
    dissociative, dreams, Freedom, keys, locks, Poetry, process, PTSD, rilke, survivor
    survivor
  • balance

    so I seek the balance point
/ to speak my truth – and listen

    July 12, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, Purpose
    #haikai, #tanka, anger, balance, listen, Poetry, Self, speak, truth
    balance
  • catching up

    This is how It Is.

    July 11, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized
    blame, enough, fault, living, now and then, past, pizza, present, regrets, satisified
    catching up
  • slow dance

    she tends with love. dirt-covered hands
- still painful – cleansing the insides, to her soul’s very depths, as only fertile soil can.

    July 10, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Charity, Death, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    bounty, dance, dirt, gardening, intention, melancholy, nature, season, sharing, slow dance, tilling, uncertainty
    slow dance
  • solutionizing

    white wine and a friend / solve world problems together

    July 9, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haikai, #tanka, chardonnay, friendship, mortality, mosquitoes, problem solving, solutions, time, wait
    solutionizing
  • Wayfarer

    Wayfaring sounds romantic, but wander too long, you may get lost.

    July 8, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #poetry, found, lost, redemption, vagabond, wander, wasteland, wayfarer, wayfaring stranger
    Wayfarer
  • Tattoo

    a change on the inside / made outside / more tellable

    July 7, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    culture, family, indelible, ink, permanent
    Tattoo
  • Epicenter-2007

    It didn’t start there, and it would not end there, but I now recognize the events of that day as my life’s epicenter.

    July 6, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, Uncategorized
    before and after, Christianity, church, collapse, earthquake, epicenter, Homosexuality, pastor, rebuild, turning point
    Epicenter-2007
  • the key

    sometimes what lies behind portals with padlocks will scare you so much that you think you will die…

    July 5, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    fear, Freedom, honesty, honesty is the best policy, keys, locks, peace
    the key
  • joysong interrupted

    wrens laid eggs / in the coop. / sang / almost / constantly.

    July 4, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    annoying, birdsong, children, joy, parenting, priorities, sing, singing, tired, wrens
    joysong interrupted
  • don’t even try (the cult)

    Don’t ever think / unless MY think you think.

    July 3, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Death, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    control, cult, leaving a cult, mind control
    don’t even try (the cult)
  • I kept (it) to myself

    I kept (it) to myself / oh, so long – for far too long…

    July 3, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    afterthought, hiding, keeping, kept, myself, parentheses, punctuation, Self
    I kept (it) to myself
  • elusive

    oh, I know they are out there somewhere…

    July 1, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #poetry, elusive, Poetry, Words
    elusive
  • June 30

    and now July can come to me / my soul no more disjoint, it’s free

    June 30, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    arrows, blame, coming out, deadline, Freedom, future, past, pride month, youth
    June 30
  • release

    does what it couldn’t

    June 29, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    able, aloft, bird, butterfly, change, fly, unable
    release
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