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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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  • beyond the churn

    The chance to look backward is all bittersweet

    November 16, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    beyond the churn
  • More!

    Write More of this love You have Found!

    November 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Poetry, polyamory, Uncategorized
    More!
  • our certain somethingness

    others are here, and I bid them come, but I find a special warmth in our certain somethingness.

    November 14, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, polyamory, Uncategorized
    our certain somethingness
  • cam – #SoCS

    Oh, how the cam has changed our lives… For the better. For the worse.

    November 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, SoCS
    cam – #SoCS
  • The Right Kind of Love

    That’s it. That’s the poem.

    November 12, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    The Right Kind of Love
  • Irony Unlimited

    Iron Sharpens Iron?

    November 11, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Life, Pic and a Word Challenge, Uncategorized
    irony
    Irony Unlimited
  • Why seek to steer what moves beyond control?

    The merits of mere stasis we extol / As if the middle ground’s a magic tool / Why seek to steer what moves beyond control? / We try to hold it still, then watch it roll…

    November 10, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose
    control, futility, villanelle
    Why seek to steer what moves beyond control?
  • ambivalence

    Sometimes there’s no light

    November 9, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Faith, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry
    #haiku, haiku
    ambivalence
  • Our many loves are but One Love

    One washes over One to More; He got more wet… or did She?

    November 8, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    polyamory
    Our many loves are but One Love
  • A Wake in the Night

    Even in darkness / The traveled path / Is marked.

    November 7, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
    A Wake in the Night
  • A Diagnosis is Not a Label – #SoCS

    …here is where I take issue with how she eventually got to her place of peace. She (mistakenly, in my opinion) allows a diagnosis to become a label. She becomes afraid of her diagnosis because others are afraid of her diagnosis.

    November 6, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, SoCS, Uncategorized
    A Diagnosis is Not a Label – #SoCS
  • When Life Is Good

    When life is good, my poetry gets bad. / Its frequency is at an all time low,

    November 5, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, triolet, Uncategorized
    When Life Is Good
  • Enjoying the Seasons

    The writing will return.

    October 31, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Enjoying the Seasons
  • the spirit is willing

    up early is the best…

    October 25, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Poetry
    the spirit is willing
  • More Than Just a Pretty Face – #SoCS (NSFM)

    When I saw the prompt for this week’s stream of consciousness, I literally laughed out loud.

    October 24, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    More Than Just a Pretty Face – #SoCS (NSFM)
  • The Palette of My Life Some Colors Short – Sonnet XXXVI

    These metaphors diverse I do intend; Results remain remote unto the end.

    October 24, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    The Palette of My Life Some Colors Short – Sonnet XXXVI
  • The Waking Dream

    Forward Into an unknown Yet certain Somethingness

    October 22, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry
    The Waking Dream
  • #whyiwrite

    It’s a little bit ironic, dontcha think?

    October 21, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Uncategorized
    #whyiwrite
  • Undulation

    a cosmic interplay of divine wind peacefully undulates over creation and seeks to ignite the fire from within. As it moves,it stirs the embersof the souland pushes the sailseverforward,filled with flamesof passion. The Pic and a Word Challenge is (usually) a weekly creativity prompt offered Mondays. Photo Credit:Patrick JenningsThe Inner Grassland SeaMerrittBritish Columbia, Canada On location, 2021

    October 19, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords
  • Cling

    White knuckles cling tenaciously

    October 18, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose
    control, letting go, priorities, tenacious
    Cling
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