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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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  • Sonnet XLI – Christmastide

    It’s “Boxing Day” which means the season’s o’er? In ‘Murica, again, we have it wrong.

    December 26, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    boxing day, Charity, giving, selfishness, selflessness
    Sonnet XLI – Christmastide
  • Don’t Yuck Someone Else’s Yum – #SoCS

    You don’t have to like it; you don’t have to eat it. I will.

    December 25, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christmas, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, polyamory, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #SoCS, consent, tolerance
    Don’t Yuck Someone Else’s Yum – #SoCS
  • Inexplicable Incarnation

    Who would do / This / On purpose?

    December 24, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Death, Faith, Jesus, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Inexplicable Incarnation
  • Then What?

    In general, I find a great deal of peace and predictability in the turning of the liturgical seasons. In other ways, it’s tremendously troublesome. Always waiting. Always looking for what’s next. “OK, that one’s done, and I guess it didn’t ‘work’ either. What do we wait for next?”

    December 22, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Then What?
  • Punt.

    More sleep means haiku

    December 21, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #haiku, haiku, priorities
    Punt.
  • Unwrapping the Gift of Wenceslas

    I have to be honest; I’ve never liked this carol much.

    December 20, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Charity, Christianity, Christmas, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Prose, Purpose, Uncategorized
    christmas
    Unwrapping the Gift of Wenceslas
  • Sonnet XL: Refocusing

    The bad’s still there – I’ll let the best abound.

    December 19, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Sonnets
    perspective
    Sonnet XL: Refocusing
  • There Are No Rules – #SoCS

    Opposites attract, Except, of course, when they Don’t.

    December 18, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry, polyamory, SoCS, Uncategorized
    #tanka, relativism
    There Are No Rules – #SoCS
  • The Gambler

    He took the news while looking bold; He chose to bet instead of fold.

    December 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Uncategorized
    bluff, cards, choices, crime, gambling, luck, poker, punishment, reward, risk, rondeau
    The Gambler
  • Time Flies?

    My son is thirteen.

    December 16, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    fatherhood, haiku
    Time Flies?
  • 2 Buds Sit

    One eschews the Liquid Courage that brought them together.

    December 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    addiction, alcoholism, codependence, friendship, recovery
    2 Buds Sit
  • Brightening

    I swear I’ve been here before

    December 14, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    Brightening
  • On Advent – VIII: Nope. Not Done.

    I think maybe this is getting closer to the root of my malaise…

    December 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
  • On Advent – VII: Wait With Me

    Life cycles.

    December 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Jesus, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    advent, cycles, waiting
    On Advent – VII: Wait With Me
  • Sonnet XXXIX: On Advent – VI

    I wait for joy. Again, this year, I wait.

    December 12, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Death, Faith, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    advent, hope, hopeless, joy, waiting
    Sonnet XXXIX: On Advent – VI
  • On Advent – V: Artificial Perfection

    They thought / They were / Making / Memories

    December 11, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christmas, Life, Poetry, SoCS, Uncategorized
    Artificial tree, Charlie Brown Christmas, Memories
    On Advent – V: Artificial Perfection
  • On Advent – IV: Displaced Darkness?

    Last night / We watched the candles / Lighted

    December 10, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christmas, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose
    choice, darkness, light
    On Advent – IV: Displaced Darkness?
  • On Advent – III: Anticipation

    Meant to be joyful waiting

    December 9, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christmas, Faith, Life, Poetry
    #haiku, haiku
    On Advent – III: Anticipation
  • On Advent – II: Evasive Peace

    This week marks Peace; It still evades.

    December 8, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, Purpose
    advent, peace
    On Advent – II: Evasive Peace
  • On Advent – I: Love Has Freed Us All

    Life finds a way / Love finds a way / Amor nos omnes liberavit

    December 7, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #pixtowords, advent, deconstruct, universalism
    On Advent – I: Love Has Freed Us All
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