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Passport Photograph
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Passport photograph
ID
Does the face fit?

Just a blob in a blobs' world -
but I would hope to made of rubber
and bounce with
the good energy of an electron
and not the negativity
of a free radical

Or perhaps to be made of steel
like a ball bearing
which glides along smoothly,
easing the free-flowing movement
of other of life's more necessary parts...

It's a blob's life;
little spheres living life in squares:
rushing about in cars, trains or planes;
living in houses;
hiding behind desks;
confined, labelled and packaged
in your own blobby box:
"Hello! I'm a Big Blob;
what kind of blob are you?"

Blob existence says that
cyber-space is not real life
and not real relationship;
So why is it that here
I find our blobbiness
disappears like the awkward
and clumsy husk of a seed,
revealing the shining nature
of the soul within
and exposing that which
is the truly life-giving
and fruitful part?

No passport photograph
required for acceptance
here -

but fingerprints are everything!

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 Reviews of "Passport Photograph"
Reviewed by Zenith Elliott
Reviewed on April 15, 2004
thought provoking...but very true! I enjoyed the way you put this poem together...

Reviewed by Debashish Haar (Reader)
Reviewed on April 15, 2004
BRILLIANT poem, wonderful perspectives and use of symbolism from different realms...I am saving this, Kate!

Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on April 15, 2004
If I get the docs clearance I'm off to NY monday week, we have to give our finger prints at airport.

Mr Blobby

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)
Reviewed on April 15, 2004
"t's a blob's life;
little spheres living life in squares:
rushing about in cars, trains or planes;
living in houses;
hiding behind desks;
confined, labelled and packaged
in your own blobby box:
"Hello! I'm a Big Blob;
what kind of blob are you?"

Powerful poem Kate!

Reviewed by KJ McPhee
Reviewed on April 15, 2004
For true vision you need to be alone with your thoughts and not the thoughts of the blob nation or group that we nominally belong to, and that's when poetry begins, when you take responsibility for your own self-growth, then watch that blob go beyond its blobbiness!

Reviewed by Floria Kelderhouse (Reader)
Reviewed on April 15, 2004
Oh this is so excellent....I guess we are
all blobbs then Kate....happy blobbing to you...
I know I have made so many friends here...and they
are true friends...fingerprints on the soul I would
say..many have left them on mine...you included...
great writing...floria


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