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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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  • awash in truer song – Sonnett XXXIX

    My yonder wild still calls, don’t get me wrong; some days its Sirens all that fill my ears.

    December 5, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Music, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    petrarchan
    awash in truer song – Sonnett XXXIX
  • All Rev’d Up and No Place to Go – #SoCS

    This dream – holy cow. It was… Willy Wonka meets school shootings meets Game of Thrones meets Squid Game meets Raid at Entebbe meets… everyone in high school and/or past jobs I didn’t like. Plus a couple I did like – but they died.

    December 4, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    All Rev’d Up and No Place to Go – #SoCS
  • Somehow Sustained

    “Admitting weakness makes us strong” A paradox for certain How can a “right” seem oh so wrong Revealed by open curtain? They said that healing went like thisI dreamt myself… exception?No messy parts – the gore you’d missThen bandage off… perfection. The time to show – inopportuneI’ve other ventures waitingBut in this state – feel…

    December 3, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    Somehow Sustained
  • Insides Out

    I want to live with Insides Out / Is ever too much Out in doubt?

    December 2, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, polyamory, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized
    authenticity, fake, real
    Insides Out
  • I’ve fallen for myself

    And in this place / of perfect / prostration, / I discover Love / in abundance / for all.

    December 1, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    I’ve fallen for myself
  • A peaceful path perchance yet stranger

    The road from here is rocky danger / And when we reach the end – who knows? / A peaceful path perchance yet stranger

    November 30, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, polyamory, Purpose, Uncategorized
    control, difficult, easy, fate, villanelle
    A peaceful path perchance yet stranger
  • the missing

    I crave the inadequate, incomplete influx

    November 29, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    the missing
  • Ardently Reject the Counterfeit – Sonnet XXXVIII

    Confounded why such phases bring sere blight; I ardently reject the counterfeit.

    November 28, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Justice, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Sonnets
    Ardently Reject the Counterfeit – Sonnet XXXVIII
  • The Art of Soft Cursing – #SoCS

    The prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “golly gee.” Use “golly gee” or another interjection that displays the same sentiment in your post. Enjoy! I remember the first (and probably only) time I was ever slapped in the face by my grandmother (I’m a quick learner). We were at her house, and the exact moment…

    November 27, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, SoCS
    swearing
    The Art of Soft Cursing – #SoCS
  • Something-ness/mess

    Our Simple, Certain, / Somethingness / Abounds within / This Something Mess

    November 26, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    Something-ness/mess
  • Nuthin’

    A New Embarrassment of Riches…?

    November 25, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, polyamory, Uncategorized
    Thanks, Thanksgiving
    Nuthin’
  • A Thanksgiving Ditty for the Poetically and Thankfully Challenged

    But listing all would cool the food…

    November 24, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    A Thanksgiving Ditty for the Poetically and Thankfully Challenged
  • Beginnings

    Soon it will be light

    November 23, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry
    #haiku, haiku
    Beginnings
  • The wheels came off

    The wheels came off,And foolishly… I kept driving… When I had a mechanicIn the passenger seat TheWholeDamnTime Wanting So badly To smooth the ride.

    November 22, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, polyamory
    codependence, independence, interdependence
    The wheels came off
  • The Curtain Crashed – Sonnet XXXVII

    The curtain crashed before the show was o’er, / So no one got to see the very end.

    November 21, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Death, Faith, Freedom, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    The Curtain Crashed – Sonnet XXXVII
  • Into the Gray – #SoCS

    These days, anyone who says the Bible is “crystal clear” on anything beyond “God is love” is immediately suspect in my mind.

    November 20, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Blog Entries, Christianity, Faith, Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    Into the Gray – #SoCS
  • I once thought bliss a baseless myth.

    I’d scoffed at hints of mirthful pith; I once thought bliss a baseless myth.

    November 19, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, triolet, Uncategorized
    I once thought bliss a baseless myth.
  • We seek to do what few will understand

    We seek to do what few can understand / It doesn’t mean it isn’t worth the doing…

    November 18, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, polyamory, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Catena Rondo
    We seek to do what few will understand
  • lost and ‘found verse’

    I’ve never been so healthy.

    November 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry
    lost and ‘found verse’
  • Poet Ted

    Ted Cruz hinted at a naughty Limerick related to Joe Biden’s Thanksgiving plans. Perhaps Poet Ted and I have more in common than I thought? Nah. Anywho – I’m coming up dry with my writing this morning, and this seemed too good to pass up. There’s a guy in the Senate named CruzWhose goal seemed…

    November 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
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