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Mystery In Black and White

amphibrachic verse It looks like a kiwi No, kiwis are fuzzy. Then maybe a lemon? or lime? I'm obsessed. Am I getting closer? Misshapened? an orange? A colorless photo, confusing at best. The white seems so hazy while black’s overriding and grays run together, an image in stress. The point of this quand’ry - I’m missing my colors, the clues that enlighten my eyes to the quest. written and posted first here at Poetry Soup - 5 Mar 2015 by Reason A. Poteet for Giorgio's Black and White Photography contest This is my first try at using amphibrachic dimeter. The amphibrach is a metrical foot of three syllables with the stress on the second syllable, or one long syllable between two short syllables, da DUM da

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