Inspired by all three works AWD11 Colorful Infinity, GK1, Dundee Graffiti, and JPL11

The Variegated Universe

A monochrome world, every day lived
in sepia tones, like a long-ago photo, with occasional red–
well, there was always blood, wasn’t there?

It had been a gradual change—
decrees and books—
told what to see—it was easier that way.

But amidst the root-rustle, verdant patches spread,
birds knew that color wasn’t gone—
and sang and chirped and chirred and whooped

till some remembered and children first saw
the infinite colors in large and small—pebbles and stones,
the circles and cycle of trees and bees,
the thatched cottages that led to the sea
with its wine-dark poetry and iridescent fish,
the rainbowed spindrift, the stars and moon that space-shifted
within an ocean of blues,
the green of pasture, the flowers—the world was multi-hued.

Now they saw it and sang with the sun, while the…