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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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  • emergence

    How long can that caterpillar stay in chrysalis before it dies and can never emerge?

    June 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Gay marriage, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Prose, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized
    authenticity, butterfly, chysalis, coming out, flight, Freedom, Homosexuality, journey, Pride, pupa, pupae, shame, truth, waiting, worry
    emergence
  • a book of many pages

    Oh, that’s sounding better – God’s deeds and not mine / perhaps I am still off the hook / but who fought the “physical” part – got in line? / you’ve got to remember to read the whole book.

    June 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Charity, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    battle, Bible, ecclesiastes, fight, gladness, greatest commandment, isaiah, joy, Kingdom, kingdom of god, Love, oppresion, partnership, peter, psalm, righteousness, social justice, worship
    a book of many pages
  • Wicked Truth?

    Life’s more painless / For the brainless / Why think too hard / When it’s so soothing?

    June 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, Purpose
    brainless, dancing through life, easy, nothing matters, stephen schwartz, unexamined life, wicked
    Wicked Truth?
  • Jagged Bones

    I need you to see some flesh on the jagged bones of the life themes I’ve expressed in my poetry.

    June 27, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Charity, Christianity, Donald Trump, Faith, Freedom, Gay marriage, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Politics, Prose, Purpose, Uncategorized
    butterfly, change, Christianity, chrysalis, church, corruption, COVID-19, deconstruct, evangelical, evangelicalism, flight, Freedom, fruit of the spirit, Good Samaritan, government, immigrant, immorality, Justice, LGBTQ+, liberty, Lion King, maturity, minorities, quarantine, Racism, refugee, selfishness, Simba, social justice
    Jagged Bones
  • roar

    peace takes many forms

    June 27, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    calm, Heart, peace, roar, thunder
    roar
  • shine, sun

    I need to be where sunlight shines / Its glow transforming – outside, in.

    June 26, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    clouds, darkness, lie, light, pure, purifying, shade, shadow, shine, sun, sunlight, sunshine, truth
    shine, sun
  • real

    real friends “get it” – even when they don’t.

    June 25, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #poetry, friendship, Gratitude, prescriptions, relationships, returning, transparency, understanding, waiting
    real
  • still life in motion

    clearly the work of a child, not a master painter.

    June 24, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    adults, angles, cezanne, children, harvard art museum, multiple perspectives, perspective, Poetry, post-impressionism, real life, realism, still life, still life with commode, viewpoint
  • semi ; colon

    today I find myself on pause; at least I have been found.

    June 23, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Freedom, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    climb, independent, maslow, pause, period, Poetry, punctuation, self-actualization, semicolon, silence, sound
    semi ; colon
  • d-a-d

    the shirt, gift from years gone by

    June 22, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haikai, belief, best dad ever, fatherhood, gift, open, receive, shirt
    d-a-d
  • Sonnet I – I chose to walk

    The shoes, while fitting poorly, won me praise, but winning praise becomes a daily chore

    June 22, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    #sonnet, bare, choice, choose, feet, flight, fly, Poetry, shoes, walk
    Sonnet I – I chose to walk
  • Focus on the Family

    not all dads function. kids grow up with so much need. when unmet, things break.

    June 21, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    backwards, fathering, forward, needs
    Focus on the Family
  • Et lux

    lux perpetua luceat eis

    June 20, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Faith, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    darkness, effort, et lux perpetua, light, lux, Poetry, responsibility, write
    Et lux
  • changing aunt jemima

    sometimes changes / seem random / and without purpose. /. those are the hardest to make. Truly.

    June 20, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Justice, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    APA, change, Chicago Manual of Style, fonts, habits, MLA, muscle memory, period, Poetry, point, Purpose, spaces, typing
    changing aunt jemima
  • transformation

    now, the enigma

    June 19, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #poetry, butterfly, caterpillar, chrysalis, fly, monarch, mystery, transformation, transition, wait
    transformation
  • breakwater

    a secure shelter in time of storm

    June 18, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, boat, breakwater, navigate, risk, safety, storm, transition
    breakwater
  • pushmi-pullyu

    turns out we’re all just dumb animals and talking isn’t really that hard.

    June 17, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Justice, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    animals, circus, conversation, doolittle, freak show, listen, pushmi-pullyu, race, racist, talk, truth, two-headed
    pushmi-pullyu
  • thinking thrice

    the cliche question – men or mice?

    June 16, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #decima, #poetry, advice, bravery, confusion, decima, decisions, doubt, fear, of mice and men
    thinking thrice
  • placeholder

    today I give a “must write” and trust you will forgive me

    June 15, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #haikai, #tanka, commitment, duty, excuses, gift, placeholder, priorities
    placeholder
  • Stop making Sense

    I have an instilled Sense of Fairness, but life’s. not. fair. is it?

    June 14, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Uncategorized
    fairness, feelings, king, nonsense, picnic, ruled, ruler, selfish, sense
    Stop making Sense
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