Kai Michael Neumann Poet Free verse

Black and White Yoyage

Black and White Yoyage

Ying and Yang come to mind that wakes up in the morning
                   Harmony the task for the day and the nights of the soul as
                      black coffee takes hold with bits of refined white powder

No credit card needed to shoot up the lines just sweetener
                   Money short as many times but the fangs of depression at
                    bay in the haven of a polychrome garden paradise around

Abundance mixes genesis and evolution blends the colours
                        cherishes diversity celebrates similarities holds dear all
                     the differences which we humans bring to the daily party

On my travels to Spain with bright sun and black secrets
                            in history memories civil strife and factional fracture
                    I stumbled into Guernica the painting the scream into hell

No hues no colourant just clarity’s pigment shadows and all
                    where the white flag of peace had been bombed into dust
                    with help of Mussolini’s black shirts and fascist brown hue

From a chessboard of aerial precision it was black or white
                     a foreplay of what was to come in the wars to proceed in
                  white ashen faces and clean shaven razor blades of demise

Back in South Africa’s so called rainbow nation I have digested
           distorted figures of human targets screaming animals shattering
                    aeroplane parts sending Picasso’s message into the world

Black and white still struggle here overt and covertly where
                Apartheid lives on some lives matter more than some others
                  in a country steam rolled by corruption of capitalistic greed

                    
                    Coffee in hand and sweet sugar soothing my wake up call
             it all seems so powerless when I as a minion of resistance
confide my wish for full colours to the message of love

                    Ying and Yang leaves no room for aggression no place for
      killing fields in the pastures of plenty just whisks and whiffs of 
what could become if understood we are all black and white

15th February 2017

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Elaine George February 26, 2017 at 6:58 PM Powerful images you have painted here with words in black and white, Kai. Many congrats on your win, Great writing. Elaine Kai Michael Neumann February 28, 2017 at 1:36 AM Thank you lots Elaine. Many wishes, Kai

Kai Michael Neumann February 24, 2017 at 2:30 AM Thank you Mark. I like black and white. It does not always have to mix into grey. Many wishes, Kai

Mark Martin February 22, 2017 at 11:40 AM Great take on the black and white subject tackled from many angles. Liked the chess, white flag and black shirt reference. Congratulations on your win Kai. :-)