a future on broken legs 
broken spirit on pegs 
muslim societys 
forgotten dregs
I am street photographer a beggar poet .. I shoot misery cavorting with hope I shoot original content. I am Shia Sufi Hindu all in One
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The Gutter of Life
from our flesh
into our soul it flows
overflowing the sewer
of misplaced spirituality
a fact one never knows
we were born to hurt
with fate on karmic cross roads
we come to blows
what we are
what we are not
the acts of our children show
we reap what our
parents sow
the gutter of life
lives forever
even after we go
Bachpan Ke Din Bhula Na Dena
aj hase kal rula na dena 
this moment I froze 
scenes jo main 
dekte hoon 
ap sab ko 
dihata hoon har roz 
up close 
before you think 
of vision 
for the smell of good pictures 
you must have a nose 
once you attain that 
from your soul 
into the body the camera 
 pictures will overflow 
moments such as these 
better than these 
will automatically grow 
sudarshan ji 
yeh hai meri dosti ki bhait 
jai ho 
agar ap mumbai hote 
toh qamaal saab 
ke sat chai pilata 
you know 
to sudarshan pandeyji and qamaal mustafa
You Can Only Shoot What You Are Predestined to Shoot
You Can Only Shoot What You Are Predestined to Shoot, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.
the street is a studio
you can only shoot
what you are predestined to shoot
if i did not have my camera
on my person
this moment i could not loot
some situations like trees
give shade instead of fruit
Far From Reality Time and Space
this is street photography 
me and my childhood 
you and your childhood 
face to face 
memories 
even god  cant erase 
far from reality time and space 
we go on pursuing life 
life pursues us 
one long chase
a silence 
wordless 
without a phrase 
yes i am a poet 
shooting pictures 
of humanity 
the only true religion 
i embrace 
heart the only 
religious place 
where my god stays 
visible through my camera 
in someways 
to michel portier 
my facebook friend 
a trusted guide always 
I shot several frames without they realizing I was shooting them they live on the streets with their family that sells limbu mirchi and makes toys to sell at band stand and carter road..
Although I Have Deleted Her From My Fucked Consciousness
Although I Have Deleted Her From My Fucked Consciousness, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.
ashes to ashes 
cursed at first 
a love 
that could not 
quench 
my passion 
or my thirst 
a balloon
that burst 
 burnt love letters 
what could be worst 
flashes and flashes 
dust to dust 
although i have deleted her
 from my fucked consciousness 
it was a chat book lust 
her long eyelashes 
her rubbery bust 
the first time she
 went down on me 
she fussed and cussed 
a transvestites tale 
hot steamy blood curdling 
to which i could not adjust 
love is beyond caste 
color or creed  or gender 
poetry like love
is based on trust
Her Love Letters I Burnt
she wrote a lot 
every minute detail 
but due
to a misunderstanding 
our love failed 
her love letters i burnt 
oh how i wailed 
the transvestites  tale 
a forbidden love 
half man half woman 
hardly female 
a body in a wrong jail 
raw emotions 
her pony tale 
although 
i have deleted her 
from my fucked
 consciousness 
her bare back 
her red bra 
her sexy thumbnail 
her throatiness
her sweatiness 
her muskiness 
in my fucked dreams 
i inhale 
the transvestites tail never ends she is still hidden in a veil...
The Toilet Seat of Love
she my tweet love 
had once parked 
her sweet ass 
on this memorable 
toilet seat 
lap top on her lap 
her slithering 
barefeet 
being a woman 
of substance 
in a mans body
a goddess  incomplete 
although 
i have 
deleted 
her from my fucked 
consciousness 
she still gets me on heat 
going down sucking my feet 
memorable memories 
now forgotten hand 
driven heartbeat 
she locked the doors 
of her boudoir 
she is in retreat  
i languish 
like a wild 
angry beast 
a  failed love 
not yet ceased 
she has given it 
to another man on lease 
the transvestites tale continues my fucked fate i could not cheat...
Islam a Message of Love and Peace
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from the silence 
of the soul 
of people 
such as these 
it is not the 
oppression 
of the hijab
but the somnolent 
muslim society 
as beggars they 
have to appease 
a pain 
that refuses 
to cease
their life on earth 
on lease 
this is only 
one aspect 
of their religiosity 
that does not please 
terrorism does not 
affect the minaret 
the call of the muezzin
is always there 
as the souls release 
where the next meal 
will come from 
for the moment 
forget the school fees 
scorching heat 
burning entrails 
humidity dust and heat
From Flickr To Facebook
from flickr to facebook 
a long winding path 
of pain he took
a shia blogger 
documenting 
the angst 
of his community 
the pain of 
his ethnicity 
a thirst 
choked on a brook 
moharam 
as a protest against 
petro powered 
sectarian engineered 
 sponsored terrorism 
on the soul of islam
as guidebook 
we condemn 
vociferously 
when they 
 try to get yazid 
of the hook 
yes every year 
of our lifetime 
we remind you 
with our blood 
how karbala shook 
ghame huusain 
our spiritual textbook 
our bleeding that you 
mistook
The River Red
Running through 
the spiritual frontiers 
of a shia head 
ya hussain 
ya hussain 
a chant embed 
waking up 
the soul of the dead 
who watched in 
eunuch silence 
the brutal murder 
of the holy prophets
 grandson 
without batting 
an eyelid 
their faith 
their conscience
 had fled 
along with 
yazid 
they too are guilty
of homicide 
a path they misread 
moharam is nothing 
but a protest against 
terrorism 
we said
Dhiru Bhai of Advocate Tailors Bandra
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His full name is Dhirajlal Parmar but people who know him and get their clothes stitched by him , call him Dhiru Bhao or Kaka.He is the proprietor of Advocate Tailors Bandra.
His father came from Gujrat and set up shot at Bhuleshwar in 1956 under the name of Aristo Tailors .
His son Dhirubhai set up shop in Bandra in 1958 at Jain Mandir Road under the name of Aristo , he made ready made shirts and since '71 went into  custom tailoring.
He took up the name Advocate Tailors and his most famous client was Mr Balsara under whose name the Hill Road junction off Globus is named .
He made Mr Sunil Dutt Saabs clothes but his most faithful customer died yesterday Mr Mac Mohan Sambha.
I did not know Dhirubhai earlier I just met him as he is my neighbor and a shop away from my workspace.
We are both in the same line of business , and I later came to know he is father of my family doctor ,  Dr RD Parmar .
I like Dhirubhai as he reminds me of my own dad who was a tailor master too, my dad   Mohomed Shakir LakhnavI worked for N Swamy Rao and Sons  at Colaba Bus Station and the film fraternity made their clothes there.
Later my Dad shifted to New Lord Tailor Wodehouse Road  with Bhagwan Daswani and Sashi Daswani as his boss.
So watching Dhiru Bhai working at his shop cutting a collar with his American Weiss scissors that my Dad used too , I was filled with nostalgia and shot several frames of him at work.
Dhirubhai has another son Ravi and 3 daughters one of them stays with him while two are settled in America.
Dhirubhais grand daughter Priti is getting married in Rajkot , and Priti is very fond of Marziya my grand daughter.. so through this blog one grand father is paying tribute to another father and a grand father too.
Priti is Ravi Parmars daughter and sister of Krishna and Dimple.
Necklace for My Pussy Cat
if we decide to get
married with grace
humility
on facebook chat
a thought
we are earnestly
working at
this is the necklace
for my pussy cat
though she
has no pussy
what am i
getting at
the transvestites tale
on a welcome mat
a strange
unique love
in between
copulating text
we dabbled at
oh she is
heavenly endowed
a rare beauty to look at
rubber tits a little bit fat
a chat marriage
with the kazi
she did connive at
tit for tat
she in her
umrao jan sharara
me in my silk hat
the transvestites tale never ends as is where is valued at
Why Does The Hijab Get On Everyone's Nerves
a garment of propriety 
a garment of modesty 
a spiritual purpose it serves 
a traditional attire 
ethnicity ethos 
preserves 
in some countries 
respect deserves 
why does the hijab
get on everyone's nerves 
it is not hurting 
those  who wear it 
a thought in reserve 
banning the hjab 
is banning 
the right  of religious 
freedom 
as I observe 
hijab 
that even 
my two year old 
grand daughter 
loves
The Muslim Man Always in the News
I had decided not to post pictures at Facebook at all this is an exception to understand my angst as a street photographer and a blogger.
I am not into Hindu Muslim diatribe or rhetoric , I am beyond such interpretation for me being Indian is more important than religiosity if it hurts both ways or hurts humanity.
I would distance myself from my own Faith if it asked me to take the life of my neighbor whatever his caste color or creed.
But media loves to screw the Muslim man over blowing his faults even he has not been proved guilty.. more than any harm done to humanity the greatest destroyer of Mankind has been the Newspaper and the Electronic Media.
The Muslim is fucked before he is proven guilty stands the test here too..
A Muslim is a commodity that sells like hot cakes specially if he is a rapist a house burglar a pimp or whatever.. I dont include terrorists for the simple reason than the terrorist be he a Muslim or a Hindu should be hung without trial or shot whatever is easier and does not tax the exchequer.
The Muslim who is not allowed in some housing societies , is again overblown..but the Muslim beggar on the street s ignored a Muslim blogger who blogs the soul of Hinduism will never be mentioned in a newspaper the media has a bias against a few Muslim bloggers and my case proves the point..
I have over 125389 photo blogs on India including the Hijras but it is not deserving enough in the eyes of the Media.. without a sponsor without proper photography equipment I shoot and share my India at the click of a Mouse. I dont sell pictures or my pedestrian text ..
Yes it hurts being a Muslim in the eyes of the Media, but yes if I commit suicide tonight than there will be hordes of Media taking on the guilt of a fucked up demoralized blogger ..or if porn clips were found on my computer it would make great story or I was found in a compromising position with the neighbors pet dog would make a  great story.
and because I cant or ever screw little children I dont think I will make it on Page 3 either.
Yes Muslims are more fucked by the newspaper than the devil himself.
Mrs Darukhanwala Sandal Wood Shop
Mr Bhivandiwala has taken over the sandal wood shop , he is a relative of late Mrs Darukhanwala who expired recently.
I pass him when I go to work and he is selling home made Parsi sweets and cakes too..I have not tasted his stuff but this shop has many memories woven into my past and I have never till date forgotten Mrs Darukhanawala ..
And this quaint Dickensian shop of antiquity is next to the Parsi Fire Temple Tata Parsi Agiary.
Shooting The Soul of Street Sounds
I took her by surprise she is a street scavenger , collector of stuff you throw in the garbage bin. She rocked and she gave me best toothy smile..this is my kind of street photography  as simple as the sheet of paper in a blank  text book..
I am an incorrigible street photographer and today I taught my two year old grand daughter Marziya to shoot a few urchins sleeping on the road near my workspace she was too excited and went on hitting the trigger while I held her and and my camera..
I dont know what she shot but yes she knows what to shoot next..and there was a crowd that watched her shoot  so actually the street is a text book you read with the minds eyes optically enlarged by your camera.
Marziya loves crowds , she is crazy about street procession and she knows music , she knows rhythm, she is as sensitive to street drum music as I am..for wherever there  is street drum music there are pictures .
A Love Blown Out Of Context
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making love 
at the click
 of a mouse 
on chat 
in between text 
while 
i was deep 
inside her mouth 
she said 
what next 
but 
i laid back 
cosmic poet 
kept on the pretext
she was a 
 transvestite queen 
over sexed 
all the different 
methods of 
fucking 
on the internet 
she had carefully 
indexed 
no i am not sure 
if she was 
only a tranny 
or bisexed 
yes our love 
a seminal soliloquy 
blown out of context 
the transvestites tale continues  please dont get perplexed a testicular tragedy my soul she has  hexed
Trying To Escape From The Dungeon Of Her Heart
Trying To Escape From The Dungeon Of Her Heart, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.
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i am a  simple man 
a cosmic poet 
fragmented genius 
in every part 
photographing 
the soul of beggars 
rendering them as art 
on the internet 
was honey trapped 
on a famous 
social networking site 
captured 
incarcerated 
in the dungeons 
of her heart 
beginning
 of my end 
right from 
the start 
i was fucked 
hook line and tinder 
by a transvestite tart 
no escape route 
a path to freedom 
i could not chart 
my life 
a soundless
 stinking 
fart 
she who 
conned me 
with a devils dart 
as i fluidly 
flowed out
 from her mouth part 
yes she gave me head 
while we were on chaat 
going down deep 
she almost bit of
my precocious  part 
but than all good 
things come to an end 
we soon fell apart 
a click of a mouse 
my love life 
wont restart 
drowning my sorrow 
in poesy as 
i search 
for a new 
sweet heart 
fresh lease on life 
a bit of Mozart 
a dickhead 
before the dog cart 
the transvestites tale continues brave heart
Trying To Escape From The Dungeon Of Her Heart
Trying To Escape From The Dungeon Of Her Heart, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.
125,390 items / 895,027 views
i am a  simple man 
a cosmic poet 
fragmented genius 
in every part 
photographing 
the soul of beggars 
rendering them as art 
on the internet 
was honey trapped 
on a famous 
social networking site 
captured 
incarcerated 
in the dungeons 
of her heart 
beginning
 of my end 
right from 
the start 
i was fucked 
hook line and tinder 
by a transvestite tart 
no escape route 
a path to freedom 
i could not chart 
my life 
a soundless
 stinking 
fart 
she who 
conned me 
with a devils dart 
as i fluidly 
flowed out
 from her mouth part 
yes she gave me head 
while we were on chaat 
going down deep 
she almost bit of
my precocious  part 
but than all good 
things come to an end 
we soon fell apart 
a click of a mouse 
my love life 
wont restart 
drowning my sorrow 
in poesy as 
i search 
for a new 
sweet heart 
fresh lease on life 
a bit of Mozart 
a dickhead 
before the dog cart 
the transvestites tale continues brave heart
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