General Poetry posted March 24, 2023


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Agree or not, my colors are ...

Black and White

by Tom Horonzy

 
Is it colorlessness 
expressionless 
or is it distinctive 
on its own?
 
A pluperfect example 
would be, for me,
achromatic photography
by Ansel Adams;
which I find to be
exsanguinous,
yet full of life.
 
Another something,
blanched and bleached,
would be a newspaper.
Though lacking pigmentation 
an imaginative journalist
can compose a canvas
to have it become 
a cloak of many colors.
 
And lest I forget, 
the animal kingdom
has dapper penguins, 
dashing orcas
and rakish skunks
seeming wearing
dinner jackets
called tuxedos.
 
Lastly,
 I'd like to say truth
is black and white 
but between the two 
are shades of gray
so I'd be lying.

 

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Creativeness aside, some may argue black is the absence of color. If so, why are there as many as 50 to 100 shades. Because, anything other than true black is therefore a very dark shade of another color. Go figure.

exsanguinous - without blood = alive
I may have prostituted exsanquine for literary purpose.






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