when she was born her headstone was a tomb
such were words written in blood on her mothers womb
the Muslim Woman
sits and begs
watches humanity as it passes by
she was born to live she will live to die
her hanky soaked in a muffled cry
allah ho akbar there is more
than sectarian hate in Islam
than meeets the eye
grandiose masjids touching the sky
madarssas bloom manafacture lies
the muslim woman
chauvinistic male Mullahdom
her rights deny
ignorance the Jihad
turned a Nelsons eye
the Crescent weeps
with eyes dry
muslims love killing muslims
a thought underlie
can we ever as Muslims unify?
our priorities that we misapply
the muslim woman
the perfect scapegoat to crucify.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
A Beggars Bowl
This was a poemless picture at my homesite I shall fill it as a poem here at Flickrs..
treacherously tattered tear stained soul
a little speck of dust you made it whole
what is godiness without you
in my wretched beggars bowl
a navajo princess pride and vanity
a dead indian beneath the totem pole
stitched lips of silence words unroll
treacherously tattered tear stained soul
a little speck of dust you made it whole
what is godiness without you
in my wretched beggars bowl
a navajo princess pride and vanity
a dead indian beneath the totem pole
stitched lips of silence words unroll
Fuck Shoes Unfuck Firoze
Bandra Bazar Road
Weeps overflows...
Politicos Doze
No one knows
Pass the Buck
Apathy grows
life eunuched
to good lucked doors
To live here
Yes I chose
Me Firoze
I sneeze
the guttered
waters from my
nose flows
my grandson
yet to be born
shall walk
tall barefeet
honeyed toes.
municipal machinations
unending woes
Fuck Shoes
Unfuck Firoze
update 30th June 2007
This is a picture shot last year , this is Bandra Bazar road, today was the same , rains flooded the area, gutters weeping , vomitting filth, luckily I have taken a sabbatical from bare feet walking because of my diabetes , soaring sugar evels, one never knows what might prick me .
I shot pictures on negs on my F100 this morning
my 431st poem
Weeps overflows...
Politicos Doze
No one knows
Pass the Buck
Apathy grows
life eunuched
to good lucked doors
To live here
Yes I chose
Me Firoze
I sneeze
the guttered
waters from my
nose flows
my grandson
yet to be born
shall walk
tall barefeet
honeyed toes.
municipal machinations
unending woes
Fuck Shoes
Unfuck Firoze
update 30th June 2007
This is a picture shot last year , this is Bandra Bazar road, today was the same , rains flooded the area, gutters weeping , vomitting filth, luckily I have taken a sabbatical from bare feet walking because of my diabetes , soaring sugar evels, one never knows what might prick me .
I shot pictures on negs on my F100 this morning
my 431st poem
Dog Day Afternoon
Bandra Bazar Road
flooded emotions in a swoon
from the Municipality
this is a yearly boon
open gutters
choked storm drains
unlike the craters on the moon
Oh to run away from Mumbai
settle in Dehradun
kids in Sherwood College
born with a silver spoon
but then on second thoughts
it is Mumbai just Mumbai in Monsoon
the rains seminal drops of a honeymoon
only the spolit sport municipality
keeps bursting this balloon
yet the resilient spirit
of a Mee Mumbaikar
the lovely month of June
when our beloved city
turns into a Blue Lagoon
Fuck Shangai Fuck Venice
Pedestrian cities out of tune..
no tsunami no typhoon
it is Mumbai Manoos
he whistles sings and croon
Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan
Baki Sab Lampoon.
The Whispering Venus
on the Sultry Mound of her Dune
Bollywoods Most Wanted
a poet a photographer a blogger
caricatured as a Cartoon
flooded emotions in a swoon
from the Municipality
this is a yearly boon
open gutters
choked storm drains
unlike the craters on the moon
Oh to run away from Mumbai
settle in Dehradun
kids in Sherwood College
born with a silver spoon
but then on second thoughts
it is Mumbai just Mumbai in Monsoon
the rains seminal drops of a honeymoon
only the spolit sport municipality
keeps bursting this balloon
yet the resilient spirit
of a Mee Mumbaikar
the lovely month of June
when our beloved city
turns into a Blue Lagoon
Fuck Shangai Fuck Venice
Pedestrian cities out of tune..
no tsunami no typhoon
it is Mumbai Manoos
he whistles sings and croon
Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan
Baki Sab Lampoon.
The Whispering Venus
on the Sultry Mound of her Dune
Bollywoods Most Wanted
a poet a photographer a blogger
caricatured as a Cartoon
Slumbai Mumbai Shangaied
Our city fathers keep unnerving us each time they want to make Mumbai into Shangai..
The Rains come we look like Venice , cars floating like Gondolas, making love in the car on the back seats during floods , with a juicy Bhuta maize in hand is the best kick, a horny guy who deals in stolen car parts at Chor Bazar was telling me...It gave an extra kick , he is already married this he was talking about his maid servant who accompanies him to buy chicken at Bandra Bazar Road..
Wife is in bed enwombed to her 9th kid expected any day like the torrential rains...
Bandra Bombil wadi, near Hill Road has sleepy East Indian cottages, this morning it was a stream kids swimming under the shadow of the Cross, Jesus watching uninterestedly , He watches this tamasha every year, this is the only Cross close to a gutter that has pigs paying homage to the Messiah.
They call it Bandra's Bay of Pigs.
I came out from this lane into a water gushing, snotty brown muddy, phlegm gurgling Bandra Bazar Road..suffering from tuberculosis, nothing had changed , ..
Bandra Bazar Road residents take all this in their stride, the new independant corporator was not around, the old Congress I corporator he got inundated in the hustings..totally washed out...hook line and sinker..
The next elections in Mumbai will be very crucial ones people expecting better amenities, better governance and better and not bitter Disaster Management.
Our life during the rains is exactly like the chicken in the coop , the butchers are smiling with Municipal grins.. we are dead either way..
The Rains come we look like Venice , cars floating like Gondolas, making love in the car on the back seats during floods , with a juicy Bhuta maize in hand is the best kick, a horny guy who deals in stolen car parts at Chor Bazar was telling me...It gave an extra kick , he is already married this he was talking about his maid servant who accompanies him to buy chicken at Bandra Bazar Road..
Wife is in bed enwombed to her 9th kid expected any day like the torrential rains...
Bandra Bombil wadi, near Hill Road has sleepy East Indian cottages, this morning it was a stream kids swimming under the shadow of the Cross, Jesus watching uninterestedly , He watches this tamasha every year, this is the only Cross close to a gutter that has pigs paying homage to the Messiah.
They call it Bandra's Bay of Pigs.
I came out from this lane into a water gushing, snotty brown muddy, phlegm gurgling Bandra Bazar Road..suffering from tuberculosis, nothing had changed , ..
Bandra Bazar Road residents take all this in their stride, the new independant corporator was not around, the old Congress I corporator he got inundated in the hustings..totally washed out...hook line and sinker..
The next elections in Mumbai will be very crucial ones people expecting better amenities, better governance and better and not bitter Disaster Management.
Our life during the rains is exactly like the chicken in the coop , the butchers are smiling with Municipal grins.. we are dead either way..
Mumbai Chikened Out
This was shot last year , today I shot pictures too on negatives on my F100, the situation is te same, gutters choked, water logged , man stranded , this is Bandra Bazar Road, I did not venture any further , to my shop and bachk home.Disaster Management a total hogwash.
The Ad Guru Alyque Padamsee appealed to our Chief Minister to come lead the helpless from the front , take a dip in the unholy waters of this Maha Mumbai Kumbh.
This picture is not very far from where I stay, all these pictures are on my homesite a gallery of pain called Bandra Bizarre Road.. Bandra Bezar Road..but Bandra Bazar road all the same..
I copy a few excerpts from kind courtesy :
www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070017...
"Rain halts life in Mumbai"
"NDTV Correspondent
Saturday, June 30, 2007 (Mumbai)
Heavy rainfall in Mumbai has flooded the busy Andheri, Worli, Sion, Kurla, Wadala, Chembur, Borivili, Kandivili and Malad areas.
The showers also crippled transport systems on the ground forcing diversions to avoid flooded roads and disrupted rail services.
There was chaos at the Mumbai airport with no flights landing or taking off till late afternoon.
The airport has now reopened but with a huge backlog of flights many passengers are still stranded.
The weather office has forecast more rainfall throughout Saturday.
The Army has been kept on standby in Kalina, one of areas which was worst affected by the 2005 rain disaster.
The Mithi river, which had flooded in 2005 is rising and authorities have said that people living near the river may be moved out if levels continued to rise.
Given the gravity of the situation, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has ordered all officials related to flood control to stay in office for the next 24 hours.
Trains halted
Trains on the Central and Harbour lines have been halted and services on the Western line are running behind schedule.
Western Railway has cancelled nine and diverted four trains heading to mumbai.
Schools shut down abruptly and students turned back home in the showers.
The Education Department has extended the date for junior college admissions for Mumbai, Thane and Raigad to July 2 due to heavy rains.
Slums in several areas of Mumbai, including Asia's largest slum Dharavi have been submerged.
Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak has said the city storm water drains had capacity to cope with upto 40 mm of rainfall but over 178 mm of rainfall has already been recorded.
In thane, two persons have been electrocuted. The Fire brigade is having a tough time attending to calls of heavy flooding in the low-lying areas, from where people were shifted to safer places.
Slums in the city were also inundated.
A building in Malad was evaucuated after fears it might collapse in the bad weather.
The BMC has said its disaster management teams are working to free drains to let the water recede.
Increasing water level
In Sangli the level of river Krishna is rising steadily due to heavy showers.
The river level is at 36 feet and inching closer to the danger mark of 45 feet .
There are reports of water entering low-lying areas along the river and villages being cut off due to flooding.
Reliance Energy and BEST, providers of power in the city and suburbs, have cut supply in various places, particularly low-lying ones, as a precaution.
Raigad district
The army has been called in to help with rescue operations in the Konkan region.
Water stood at four-feet level in the streets of Mahad region in Raigad district.
About 1000 people were evacuated to safe places and two people reportedly died after a landslide.
Water level in Krishna river touched the 36 mark, but danger level is 45 and the water is rising.
Flooding also cut off five villages in the region. "
Back to my Bandra Bazar Road, nothing has changed much, misfortunes is our lot, we the eunuched souls that once in a while called Marathi Manoos, Mee Mumbaikar...
We weep like the rains as they fall on our heads and remind us of out Municipal Mortality..
The Municiplaty kills us much before God does...
The Ad Guru Alyque Padamsee appealed to our Chief Minister to come lead the helpless from the front , take a dip in the unholy waters of this Maha Mumbai Kumbh.
This picture is not very far from where I stay, all these pictures are on my homesite a gallery of pain called Bandra Bizarre Road.. Bandra Bezar Road..but Bandra Bazar road all the same..
I copy a few excerpts from kind courtesy :
www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070017...
"Rain halts life in Mumbai"
"NDTV Correspondent
Saturday, June 30, 2007 (Mumbai)
Heavy rainfall in Mumbai has flooded the busy Andheri, Worli, Sion, Kurla, Wadala, Chembur, Borivili, Kandivili and Malad areas.
The showers also crippled transport systems on the ground forcing diversions to avoid flooded roads and disrupted rail services.
There was chaos at the Mumbai airport with no flights landing or taking off till late afternoon.
The airport has now reopened but with a huge backlog of flights many passengers are still stranded.
The weather office has forecast more rainfall throughout Saturday.
The Army has been kept on standby in Kalina, one of areas which was worst affected by the 2005 rain disaster.
The Mithi river, which had flooded in 2005 is rising and authorities have said that people living near the river may be moved out if levels continued to rise.
Given the gravity of the situation, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has ordered all officials related to flood control to stay in office for the next 24 hours.
Trains halted
Trains on the Central and Harbour lines have been halted and services on the Western line are running behind schedule.
Western Railway has cancelled nine and diverted four trains heading to mumbai.
Schools shut down abruptly and students turned back home in the showers.
The Education Department has extended the date for junior college admissions for Mumbai, Thane and Raigad to July 2 due to heavy rains.
Slums in several areas of Mumbai, including Asia's largest slum Dharavi have been submerged.
Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak has said the city storm water drains had capacity to cope with upto 40 mm of rainfall but over 178 mm of rainfall has already been recorded.
In thane, two persons have been electrocuted. The Fire brigade is having a tough time attending to calls of heavy flooding in the low-lying areas, from where people were shifted to safer places.
Slums in the city were also inundated.
A building in Malad was evaucuated after fears it might collapse in the bad weather.
The BMC has said its disaster management teams are working to free drains to let the water recede.
Increasing water level
In Sangli the level of river Krishna is rising steadily due to heavy showers.
The river level is at 36 feet and inching closer to the danger mark of 45 feet .
There are reports of water entering low-lying areas along the river and villages being cut off due to flooding.
Reliance Energy and BEST, providers of power in the city and suburbs, have cut supply in various places, particularly low-lying ones, as a precaution.
Raigad district
The army has been called in to help with rescue operations in the Konkan region.
Water stood at four-feet level in the streets of Mahad region in Raigad district.
About 1000 people were evacuated to safe places and two people reportedly died after a landslide.
Water level in Krishna river touched the 36 mark, but danger level is 45 and the water is rising.
Flooding also cut off five villages in the region. "
Back to my Bandra Bazar Road, nothing has changed much, misfortunes is our lot, we the eunuched souls that once in a while called Marathi Manoos, Mee Mumbaikar...
We weep like the rains as they fall on our heads and remind us of out Municipal Mortality..
The Municiplaty kills us much before God does...
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Peace of Shit a Poem / Obituary Mr Marquis Pets /Rains
Peace of Shit a Poem / Obituary Mr Marquis Pets /Rains
Originally uploaded by firozeshakirphotographerno1
It has rained cats and dogs , distempered pussys in Mumbai , since last night , the roads are flooded , gutters choked , this is what happened last year, what happened year before last , life goes on.The Mumbaikar braves it all, he walks the on a live wire with Death overshadowing him, this morning news was a guy travelling in a local train on his way to work standing near the entrance of the train got into an argument with two commuters who beat him up badly, the 300 train travellers watching this reality show none coming to his help, a local journalist Sivnath rushed him to the Sion hospital he was proclaimed dead, he leaves behind a young wife and a daughter.
This is the other dark side of the Marathi Manoos ..the two guys were eventually caught by the railway police this is Mumbai life on a slow track.
Mee Mumbaikar , hollow words , when Man destroys another Man not for religion, not in defence but because he believes in Might is Right.
Funny had I not joined Flickrs I would be writing this at Word Press.But I have to reduce the load on my Homesite , so I am bringing my poems here re edited revitalised ..
I walked from home with my F100 shooting Boran Road , I dont have the energy to punish myself or my surviving camera in the heavy waters.I opened shop at 11.45, I packed off the staff gave them an off , they live nearby , one guy stays at Mulund he called up it was bad day of flooding at his end..Mumbai in the rains ,, bhuta , a cup of Irani pani kum chai, Brun Maska ..some Kheema is the right stuff for a restless soul..roads lead to Good Luck Irani joint near Mehboob Studios..
my post
photographerno1: 05/23/2006 5:50 AM
head above shoulders
a heart filled with boulders
love
missing files and folders
beauty is ugliness
in the eyes of the pissholder.
life peace of shit as
you grow older
find a new
ass licked beholder
my 366th poem titled peace of shit this poem happened as I was commenting on Velvet Paws latest Ratty post.
Rats are very intelligent ..I kept White Rats.
These I would buy from Marquis Pets , I owe my love for animals to Douglas Marquis , there is not a single lad that has never bought a fish, Persian cat, a dog, parrots, love birds guinea pigs , hamsters, squirrels, from Marquis.
Marquis died a few years back, his wife was bedridden but she could do all her work directing the help.
And their bedroom was the hall, Marquis was a chronic asthamatic, always wheezing, never cursing.
Marquis was a Chor Bazar freak, he would leave very early morning, to buy the glass pieces that came from ship breaking yards, out of this he made unusual Aquariums, he bought all kinds of stuff, made cages, custom made, in my alcoholic days when the booze joints were shut for dry days specially at the Yacht restaurant ..they would give me a take away ofa quart gin I would come to Marquis borrow a steel glass mix it with water get tanked.. listen to Marquis's yarn..
I remember a very big shot Shetty who was on his last legs thrown out of his house a more condemned alcoholic than me .. would come and drink his hooch, country made stuff thar wa 100 proof or somethinng like that.
He was a terrible sight he spoke of good times, his kids, his homlessness, gave me the creeps as I was on the kerbside trying to walk his walk..
Yes I came away I never forgot Mr Shetty.
And I never forgot Mr Marquis.
He was known fondly as Dougie.
Bandra Banstand was Marquis's Haunt or Adda opposite the Sea Rock Hotel, opposite the mega star Sharukh Khans house would be a horse cart of Marquis kids took rides grew up with their Dreams..
I miss Marquis but do bang into his son Chris who was settled in United States but gave up all that came home to take over his dad business of Pets.. Chris Marquis
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