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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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  • entropy of a marriage

    collecting scattered atoms to original boxes

    May 30, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    disorder, enthalpy, entropy, fight, marriage, renewal
    entropy of a marriage
  • dividing by zero

    sometimes it helps to think a clever theorem was at work

    May 29, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #DIV/0!, addition, divide by zero, division, excel, fathers, math, pi, Poetry, presence, spreadsheet, subtraction, undefined, zero
    dividing by zero
  • dandan

    best friend. stood up.

    May 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, The Messenger Project, Uncategorized
    forgiveness, friendship, hurt, loss, reconciliation, recovery, redemption
    dandan
  • namesfacesvoices

    this is tactical hatred.

    May 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Ahmaud Arbery, betrayal, dehumanize, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, George Floyd, Philando Castile, riot, Trayvon Martin
    namesfacesvoices
  • what the hell

    speechless wonder at the brutality of it all.

    May 28, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorized
    approval, bigotry, brutality, George Floyd, indignation, Poetry, police, privilege, Racism, sadness, tolerance
    what the hell
  • all in the same storm?

    convenient, I say, They in their boat, I in mine. Let’s just blame the storm.

    May 27, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Faith, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Ahmaud Arbery, boat, gay, George Floyd, hate, Homosexuality, Jesus, Love, Racism, Robert Frost, shooter, storm
    all in the same storm?
  • cassandra

    no worse curse! There’s not, I thought.

    May 27, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    cassandra, curse, disbelief, greek mythology, maslow, prophecy
    cassandra
  • symbiosis

    her presence extracts a fee.

    May 26, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, choice, cost, fee, friendship, pay, presence, selfishness, selflessness, symbiosis
    symbiosis
  • consensual adults

    Bravo to those privileged enough to get it perfectly the first go ’round.

    May 26, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Gay marriage, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, The Messenger Project, Uncategorized
    brokeback, church, closeted, Homosexuality, married, parents, pastor, regret, therapy
    consensual adults
  • Afterrise

    physics does not play by my rules

    May 25, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    down, gravity, physics, Poetry, up
    Afterrise
  • I Need Permission

    I wasn’t as brave as you were to face it head on.

    May 24, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Gay marriage, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, The Messenger Project, Uncategorized
    brave, church, Gay marriage, hero, Homosexuality, Love, pastor
    I Need Permission
  • 88 keys for a reason

    Is there room for classical expectations and contemporary frontiers?

    May 24, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Life, Love, Music, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    bernstein, chords, Danse Macabre, discord, dissonance, harmony, Mozart, Music, Poetry, Saint-Saens, tritone
    88 keys for a reason
  • out of the gray

    Vibrant verdancy followed fast on the heels of the late vernal torrents.

    May 23, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    blue, gray, green, Indian summer, Poetry, spring, sultry, summer, sunshine, warm
    out of the gray
  • postmortem

    I do miss the antediluvian remarkbut you still nailed it. the PBS pedagogues, too.I like the switch around original way was good, too.Made one stop, and think,to understand. I liked the pause. And the ending …put antediluvian back in.

    May 23, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, #poetry, analysis, antedeluvian, autopsy, meaning, Poetry, think
    postmortem
  • As Ben Dances on the Edge of Heresy. Again.

    Notice any gaps there?

    May 21, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Christianity, Faith, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Christianity, church, creed, Love, paul
    As Ben Dances on the Edge of Heresy. Again.
  • just baggage

    Laughter – just baggage

    May 21, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Faith, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, The Messenger Project, Uncategorized
    #napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, baggage, blog, Poetry, profanity, upbringing
    just baggage
  • Go Straight

    deliverance comes with obedience

    May 21, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Gay marriage, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Poetry, The Messenger Project, Uncategorized
    bee, gay, hell, hitler youth, Homosexuality, make believe, march, straight
    Go Straight
  • happymess

    a question.old as the hills

    May 20, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    etymology, fortune, happiness, happy, lottery, luck, lucky, Poetry
    happymess
  • means to an end

    trust the poem just to say what it wants.

    May 19, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Purpose, The Messenger Project, Uncategorized
    #napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, creative, destination, hay(na)ku, journey, means to an end, Poetry, process, prompt, trust
    means to an end
  • testing

    so, is it true, band on my wrist? this gift I bring – clenched jaw, tight fist?

    May 19, 2020

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    enough, inadequacy, Poetry, testing, theory, Words, You Are Enough
    testing
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