striking black and white image of coffee beans, coffee in a cup and milk in a cup...a bit like a yin yang symbol but triangles with the inset contrasting circles of colour

Colour Contrast: A Various And Varied Variety — on Blackness, Whiteness, Greyness, Brownness — by Blacklisted & Anonymous; Whitelisted & Obvious; Gray, Greyer & Greyness; Brownlisted & Balanceness

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Written by karunacreations

A Longette Lite compiled by Karuna Mistry

Blackness; a lackness, absence of brightness, bleakness, absolute white-less
to walk in nothingness, stalk in stealthness, run in blindness, dark chasm nonetheless
shapeless strides more or less, in quickness, fitness — hides fatness, possess finesse
coolness, lack tackiness, hack into systems with hasteness — cyber sabotage no less
a blackened madness, bleak mess, spiral into darkness, regret with sadness
infamous, shameless, ruthless maleness or ruth-femaleness; unadulterated badness

——Blacklisted & Anonymous

Whiteness; a brightness and lightness, heavy weightless in bright spaces–
not outer spaceness, which is shapeless, colourless and tasteless
unlike the salt, sugar and carbness — else, all is plainness, blandness
as if tongueless, when cats catch one’s taste buds, leaves one speechless … blankness
nine lives race through the end-of-the-tunnel to reach oneness
as if anaesthetised and painless, experience euphoria and greatness
arrive at pearly gates, maskless, egoless — not anonymous
to grace God in fearlessness with the salve of love in plain sightness
associate with the likes of Buddha and Jesus

——Whitelisted & Obvious

Greyness; a haziness, blurriness, cloudiness, fogginess
neither here or there mistiness, droplets in the air wetness
feeling grayness; not happiness or gayness, prideless dullness
prizeless — not priceless, to be precise — lest a laziness strikes us
by the shades of un-mystiqueness, a non-mysterious fadeness
a lulled colour spectrum between two absolutes no less
made famous by that 50/50 movie nonetheless

——Gray, Greyer & Grayness

Brownness; a groundness and earthiness — clay, soil, mud, rock groundmass
spherical all-roundness, all around us, orbit in spaceness
groundless gravity boundless                                      Earth’s brownness is
terra firmness, reliant, relentless hardness
between space darkness and sun’s brightness — not dark, nor bright
but middle ground no less — untethered colourist motives frown less
with all-round bareness and bearness; brawn-to-braun brownness

——Brownlisted & Balanceness

                                      Blackness is colourless and brightless
                                      Whiteness is all-colour in lightness
                                      Greyness is nondescriptness but
                                      Brownness belongs to ourness

Words and audio by Karuna Mistry; image by Alex Padurariu, from Unsplash

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33 Comments

  2. Big congratulations Karuna on your awesome Longette Lite! Number 4 of all time. I’m looking at doing tshirt designs for redbubble or something…you can have one that says something like “I was one of the first people to write a longette” : )

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      3. A multiple author collaboration sounds perfect! One stanza each is doable… is everyone else in? Catherin, what if you do a group email to see who’s in (or reach out individually) and then proceed from there? Timewise, I would need a few days to even get started though, realistically into the month of Feb to write…

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