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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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  • A Storm is Coming

    The best kind of storm – White, to blot out all the gray

    January 31, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Life
    #tanka, beauty, snow, storm
    A Storm is Coming
  • See Where I Might Land – SoCS

    The prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS) is: “let go.” Write about the first thing that comes to mind when you think “let go.” Enjoy! I’m about 36 hours late on my SoCS because, well, I just couldn’t “let go” yesterday. I had it SO firmly affixed in my mind what had to be…

    January 30, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    See Where I Might Land – SoCS
  • Then I Will Bring a Boat

    It seems my friends have Sorrows fit to Drown; They’ve just enough Pure Joy to stay Afloat.

    January 28, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, triolet, Uncategorized
    Then I Will Bring a Boat
  • Win/Win?

    Competing interests / Often call for some losses / Before both can win

    January 27, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry, polyamory
    #haiku
    Win/Win?
  • Sunset

    We can’t always live In the daylight…

    January 26, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Life, Uncategorized
    Sunset
  • Trapped in Amber

    Trapped in Amber, Some things remain Intact For Millenia.

    January 25, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    Trapped in Amber
  • ‘Tis heaven’s heat which rescues from cold hell.

    Away, aweigh, ’tis love which calls us forth; The love which calls shall push us there as well. When globe reveals what’s east, west, south or north ‘Tis heaven’s heat which rescues from cold hell.

    January 23, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, polyamory, Purpose
    ‘Tis heaven’s heat which rescues from cold hell.
  • Divine

    I used to think Divinity hid behind clouds,

    January 20, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    Divine
  • Picked by Default

    I prayed daily for the (disappointingly rare) “indoor recess” which would protect me from having to reveal any further my painfully evident dearth of kinesthetic intelligence.

    January 18, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Uncategorized
    Picked by Default
  • The Roller Coast

    We can’t get enough of The Coasters.

    January 14, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    The Roller Coast
  • 600 Miles

    In a virtual world, what are several hundred miles or hours… two… nine…

    January 11, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    600 Miles
  • Missed It

    The Magi showed up / And revealed / Divinity

    January 7, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Jesus, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    Missed It
  • No Words

    I have nothing to write today, so I colored. Here is my contribution to the cosmos.

    January 5, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
  • The Hour is Late

    Unopened doors in neverending halls / I know I have the choice to alter clime

    January 4, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    choices, ennui, villanelle
    The Hour is Late
  • I put my finger on the “thing”

    I put my finger on the “thing” / But then “thing” moved – or was it me?

    January 3, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, triolet
    I put my finger on the “thing”
  • Solve-ing Nothing.

    Revolve…

    January 1, 2022

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Life
    futility, new year, pointless, resolutions
    Solve-ing Nothing.
  • and.

    This is how it will always be.

    December 31, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    and.
  • COVID-Head

    It’s real.

    December 30, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Uncategorized
    COVID-Head
  • Sick Day Tanka

    I am so, so, sick

    December 29, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Christmas, Life, Poetry
    #tanka, tanka
    Sick Day Tanka
  • Enlarged Heart

    Last night, my adopted son who bears my name met his paternal biological grandparents for the first time.

    December 28, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Christmas, Life, Love, Uncategorized
    adoption, family
    Enlarged Heart
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