good bye good riddance
to old man old year 2008
wars pestilence
hate more hate
israel in great hurry
bombs wont wait
old arsenal to be disposed off
reached its expiry date
killing civilians children
sucked fate
eunuch silence
of castrated Arab leaders
bad soul mate
other western leaders
new year celebrate
humanity begging for mercy
at Allahs shut gate
every day is ashura
every land is karbala
as bombs detonate
enough is enough
we say with a clenched fist
no parking in India
for Pakistani non state actors
fucked terrorists
2009
we pledge
to get rid of these dim wits
this should hurt
those whom the cap fits
jehadis born and bred in England
call themselves Brits
or Bangladeshi mercenaries misfits
Afghani Taliban trained
human hating twits
play acting a deathly drama
and skits
venomous vipers
brotherhood born
in snake pits
whom a eunuch clergy
with their silence
gives clean chits
so you are photographerno1?
who uses the camera like a gun
to shoot us
to show us
like we are
good bad or ugly
without making fun
our dreams
our aspiration
our hopes
our message on your blogs
one by one
keeping us alive forever
even after your work is done
also shooting
the holy father
the holy spirit and his favorite son
At about 11.30 pm I decided to go and shoot the New Years Eves Mass close to my house at Carmel Convent Bandra.
This series is my tribute to my Christian brethren...a community that is peaceful at all times but has been battered blue in Kandhamal Orissa .
more pictures at my flickr photostream..
on begs from god
the other begs from man
beggary
moral spiritual
a part of a cosmic plan
seeing the world
falling apart
the messiah
came
he saw he ran
the world is a bill board
showing the antics
of jackie chan
a profit and loss account
to add some more sins
the bad son of a bitch
always wins
the good man is fucked
his clothes snatched
his arse burnt skinned
in a few hours
2009
a fucked happy new year begins
I am a beggar seeking alms as pictures
from the underprivileged on the streets
a camera with a shivas eye
that hardly ever cheats
captures their innocence
including their heart beats
pedestrian poetry
at the feet of my guru John Keats
pictures that will be seen
on my flickr photo stream
by a photographer bare feet
dust and heat human sweat secrete
some have mouths
but their souls
ravenously hungry
their human
flesh eats
cannibalistic cosmic convolutions
on a micro wave of lost memories
pre-heats
happy 2009
dead panned it greets
Today before the year ends I complete 56000 Blogs at Flickr in 18 months .
This month I posted over 6348 Blogs at Flickr my highest ever for any month since I joined Flickr in June 2007.
I am not a full time blogger I run a shop, but every available time that I snatch , I blog them as pictorial moments.
I shoot pain as I see pain sans metaphor.
I was not much into beggar photography but it was Dr Glenn Losack MD who pushed me towards this genre, a fact of inescapable life in India.. Mumbai where I live.
Some pictures are predestined to be shot.. I took Marziya with me and she on my waist as I shot all this on my Canon G9.
Than I got a call my wife and Marziyas mother wanted her back for the Majlis , so I skipped the shoot and met them at Cheap Jack Hill Road handed her over to them and continued ..shooting the Hill Road streets.. I returned to my shop.
I wont be shooting the midnight mass tonight....all depends .
I must add one person who honed my photography as a blogger is Neal Romanek Rabbit and Crow.. he gave me a lesson on ethereal quality and blur to some of my pictures I shot today of Marziya..
Without Yorrik, Tom Andrews, Friar Tuck, Aleem, Dragonfly , Kowalski,Dread Heading , Ben Bell it would have not been possible...and many others like Fred Miller , Anthony Posey , Bernie ,Daikitora Debbie Leirdasim, Don Duck Landes Michael Bell,...Aljie. designldg nabila 4 art,etc etc etc...
a new year in a few hours will wriggle by
the old year 2008 will slowly silently die
with it the mournful cry ...of the dead
who could not make it - in their graves
bullet in their souls wretchedly lie
terrorism kills humanity ..Why?
why can man live peacefully
in a world without borders
without a bleeding sky.
hamas gaza israel
a needle in the storm of an eye
a silent eunuch world
testicular less
watches helplessly
as events magnify
bombed hopes
bombed children
bombed peace
billowing smoke
within a sigh
a tooth for a tooth
faceless I
mans ego
making the world
into a pig sty
This evening I took Marziya and went to shoot the Mount Mary Basilica ,and I am just a few pictures away from 56000 Blogs at Flickr in 18 months ...
This is one Church that gives every human soul a peace of mind and spiritual tranquility.. specially on a day when the old year comes to an end , an year that has ravaged the soul of our beloved city....Mumbai.
It has hit us all as Indians ... and citizens of a peaceful world.
With this picture I wish all of you at Flickr Word Press Live Journal Vox Blog, Facebook, Buzznet , Fotothing and Alpha Inventions a smiling face of a very Happy New Year.
