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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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  • Drove along, he did.

    He doesn’t come / when you call / usually.

    April 2, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Life, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2022, Poetry, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized
    #napowrimo2022, Death, Dickinson
    Drove along, he did.
  • Self-challenge, and… go.

    I still don’t know where to start.

    March 24, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Life, Love, Mental Illness, polyamory, Suicide
    #thebook
    Self-challenge, and… go.
  • The Purest Gold

    The clouds always part

    March 22, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #pixtowords, #tanka, tanka
    The Purest Gold
  • See the Sea

    When will I see the sea for what it is and what it will always be?

    March 20, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry
    cycles, lunar cycles, predictability, tides
    See the Sea
  • This is How Love Is

    For in the end, Love Runs to Us, Grasps Us, And Refuses to Ever let Us go.

    March 16, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Gay marriage, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    This is How Love Is
  • Sonnet XLIII – Unsparing

    Whatever form that functions is the thing That proffers wisdom, be it balm or sting.

    March 15, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Life, Love, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    wisdom
    Sonnet XLIII – Unsparing
  • transition

    wisps of potential precipitation occlude the sun’s rays, goosebumping my flesh which was recently warm.

    March 12, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    transition
  • What a Trip – #SoCS

    Little things piled up. Thing which, under normal circumstances, would have rolled off my back, but they ALL. HAPPENED. AT. ONCE.

    March 12, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, polyamory, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #SoCS
    What a Trip – #SoCS
  • No Shovel Required

    Snow falls and then melts

    February 25, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry
    #tanka
    No Shovel Required
  • Further from Progress?

    We find ourselves becalmed.

    February 22, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    Further from Progress?
  • Whatever.

    Whatever.

    February 21, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, SoCS, Uncategorized
    Whatever.
  • It Was Very Good

    We’ve nearly done it.

    February 18, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    art, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    It Was Very Good
  • Fractured Faces

    Safe in our certain Somethingness…

    February 17, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, polyamory, Uncategorized
    Fractured Faces
  • Juxtaposition

    Clandestinely UnconcealedCovertly ConspicuousExplicitly SurreptitiousFurtive Exhibitionism AllAbove BoardwhileUndertheTable Simultaneously. In a deliciousjuxtaposition.

    February 10, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    Juxtaposition
  • Between the Cadences

    There, we have choices that make all the difference Between the cadences.

    February 9, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    Between the Cadences
  • Sonnet XLII – Dreamscape Verses

    Sometimes at night we’re better than we think; Or So. Much. Worse. when dreams push to the brink.

    February 8, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry, Sonnets
    Sonnet XLII – Dreamscape Verses
  • A Book of Endless Pages – SoCS

    Every day is a new page in a book of endless pages.

    February 6, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, SoCS, Uncategorized
    SoCS
    A Book of Endless Pages – SoCS
  • Deep Thirst

    A Sauvignon BlancNearing our parched lips and tonguesSlakes a long dryness

    February 3, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    haiku
    Deep Thirst
  • Groundhog Day

    The Men of MIlltown Mourn this Morn; Their groundhog, Mel, is dead.

    February 2, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Faith, Life
    Groundhog Day
  • Obscured

    I see you… Rising above the cloudswhich obscurewhere your building began. You continue to riseIn spite of the clouds, And clouds don’t last forever. One day… You will standstrongand proud, And I will see you fully,toptobottom, Illuminatedby a never-ending sun. The Pic and a Word Challenge is (usually) a weekly creativity prompt offered Mondays. Photo Credit:Patrick Jennings…

    February 1, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    Obscured
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