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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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choice

what will the waves do with their fury?

Paint the scene now, before ship takes a dive.

April 21, 2022

Ben Kohns

art, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, NaPoWriMo 2022, Poetry, Purpose

#napowrimo2022, chance, choice, Inevitability, Snow Storm, Turner
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
forward

where again is there?

July 7, 2021

Ben Kohns

Faith, Freedom, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

#haiku, #tanka, choice, fate, haiku, tanka
Sonnet XX – Switching Sides?

So Sides I Switch – “Solutioning” right now; At least until my strength begins to wane.

March 17, 2021

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Justice, Kindness, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized

choice, positivity, solutionize
Circular Wars

It’s easy to rise on the called-for occasion…

January 17, 2021

Ben Kohns

Donald Trump, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorized

choice, circular firing squad, integrity, take a stand
Family Fractured?

I, ultimately, don’t get to choose.

December 28, 2020

Ben Kohns

art, Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

choice, family, identity
in limbo

Solitude is a state of mind.

December 17, 2020

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized

#pixtowords, choice, waiting
on communication – v

you must choose wisely

November 1, 2020

Ben Kohns

Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Politics, Purpose

#haikai, #haiku, #tanka, choice, economy of words, peace, speech, war, writing
Sonnet I – I chose to walk

The shoes, while fitting poorly, won me praise, but winning praise becomes a daily chore

June 22, 2020

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Faith, Freedom, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized

#sonnet, bare, choice, choose, feet, flight, fly, Poetry, shoes, walk
Night Before the Fall

oh, that this night would never end.

June 8, 2020

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Christianity, Death, Faith, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

choice, comparison, eden, need, night, perfection, stars, the fall, want
validated

Today I live and stand in my own story.

May 30, 2020

Ben Kohns

Coming Out – The Journey, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, The Messenger Project, Uncategorized

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, choice, hope, Life, Love, Poetry, recovery
symbiosis

her presence extracts a fee.

May 26, 2020

Ben Kohns

Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

#picandawordchallenge, choice, cost, fee, friendship, pay, presence, selfishness, selflessness, symbiosis
terrestrial pleasures

collect the forbidden – the “stuff”

May 2, 2020

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Death, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized

adam and eve, apple, Bosch, choice, contentment, forbidden, garden of earthly delights, Hieronymous, strawberry, the fall

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