Our World Without Colour

Classic silent films Redundant technicolour Piano plays mood Panther and snow leopard Duelling with chess Under a scintillating firmament A dome of diamonds floating on infinity Moonlight softly slicing the shadows Illuminating their world of concentration Alternating attrition Pawn takes pawn Bishop takes pawn Rook takes pawn Knight takes pawn Who's winning? The back rows don't care The pawns always get slaughtered Monochromatic menagerie Colour falls victim to Darwin Survival of the hueless Polar bears, penguins, orcas Denizens of the icy white Magpie's musings Cogitating a colourless cosmos With polka dot dalmatians And Rorschach fresian cows And bar code zebras Mezzotinted mother nature Despite its wonderous beauty Always has a few skunks Jet and pearls for the rich Coal and chalk for the poor Obsidian and quartz for the wannabes A nun and a priest In theological debate Reconciling scripture With how the real world with real people really works Playing dominos To divine answers To divine questions Passing holy judgement By chance and cunning What's the alternative? A pool table of eight balls? A heartless (and diamondless) pack of cards? It doesn't matter To those who see Truth as black and white Food race! Tuxedoed athletes! Chequered flag drops! Raisins and pearl onions Caviar and rice Faster! Black pudding and chicken Licorice and mash potato Faster! Black beans with cream Oreos and mayonnaise Finish line! Hurray for the winners! Bread and blackberry jam prizes! Everyone else starves Brightling and darkling Eden's white vies Hade's black Madness lies between Written 16th February 2017 Entry to "the colours black and white" contest Notes: "Colour" is not a typo or a spelling mistake. It's how us Brits spell it. "Divine" means "discover" as well as "about God" Magpies are considered to be one of the most intelligent birds - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie Mezzotint is a grey scale printing technique https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzotint