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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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haiku

Deep Thirst

A Sauvignon BlancNearing our parched lips and tonguesSlakes a long dryness

February 3, 2022

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized

haiku
Punt.

More sleep means haiku

December 21, 2021

Ben Kohns

Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized

#haiku, haiku, priorities
Time Flies?

My son is thirteen.

December 16, 2021

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized

fatherhood, haiku
On Advent – III: Anticipation

Meant to be joyful waiting

December 9, 2021

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Christmas, Faith, Life, Poetry

#haiku, haiku
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
ambivalence

Sometimes there’s no light

November 9, 2021

Ben Kohns

Faith, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry

#haiku, haiku
give way

This morning – Three lines

September 26, 2021

Ben Kohns

Freedom, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized

#haiku, haiku
Breathe

I’m back Here from There

August 23, 2021

Ben Kohns

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

#haiku, #tanka, haiku, tanka
forward

where again is there?

July 7, 2021

Ben Kohns

Faith, Freedom, Life, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

#haiku, #tanka, choice, fate, haiku, tanka
isn’t it ironic?

hilarious, God.

June 23, 2021

Ben Kohns

Life, Poetry, Uncategorized

#haiku, haiku
no recall

A bad day for the poet

May 23, 2021

Ben Kohns

Life, Poetry

haiku
new

trust me – my new was harder.

May 20, 2021

Ben Kohns

Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

#haiku, #tanka, authenticity, being, haiku, tanka
serendipity

Some days your plans change

May 14, 2021

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Faith, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized

acceptance, chance, fate, haiku, tanka
journée

A day is born

April 20, 2021

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Life, Love, NaPoWriMo 2021, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

darkness, haiku, Korean, light, see, sijo, sunrise, walk
I’m Sailing!

Vacation from my problems?

March 8, 2021

Ben Kohns

Life, Mental Illness, Poetry

haiku, overwhelmed, tanka, vacation from my problems, what about Bob
filler

working on a “thing”

February 21, 2021

Ben Kohns

Poetry, Uncategorized

#tanka, filler, haiku, pointless
on advent – viii

perspective is key

December 16, 2020

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Christmas, Faith, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

eternity, haiku, John 1
on advent – vi

the waiting gets old

December 14, 2020

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, Jesus, Justice, Life, Love, Poetry

haiku, impatient, waiting
fingers need a break

Writing has its time and place

December 5, 2020

Ben Kohns

Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized

communication, haiku, miscommunication, tanka
The Meeting

Enter the space now

September 10, 2020

Ben Kohns

Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose

#haikai, brain, haiku, Heart, japanese, soul, wholeness

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