This week's freeXpressions prompt was Colour (Canadian U optional!):
which prompted these haikus:
field of fire
meets watery ocean
steam not included
how many pencils
did it take to prepare
this selfie image?
colour
wrapped in wood
wrapped in colour
in search of purple
but blue and red
won’t play together
granulation?
or is my screen
really dirty?
look at those pencils
even the imperfections
are perfect
blue and red
side by side
pencils in 3D
colour boundary
irregular and wavy
pencil coverup
red points up, blue down
which is the proper
orientation?
at the party
completely unsuccessful
no one mingled
and then I wrote this microfiction:
He was new at the 3D glasses manufacturing plant and desirous of making his mark. That he was a new hire didn’t faze him, nor his complete ignorance of the science behind the technological marvel of seeing things rise out of page and jump through the movie screen. He could only hear the imagined adulations as he revolutionized the industry.
Which is why he moved the red lens to the right eye and the blue to the left.
The dressing down he received from his boss following massive customer complaints of everything receding and moving backwards was epic. He nearly lost his job. Nearly.
Undeterred, his next attempt at innovation will be to make both lenses purple and let each eye decide what colour they want to see - the red or the blue.
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