Sunday, July 25, 2010

They Celebrate The Spirit of Idd

they definitely
dont celebrate idd
at all
they beg on idd day
but yes they did
hear the muezzins call
after the namaz
a few coins
like rain will fall
mother and her child
small no new clothes
no sheer korma
for them hopes
reverberating
on a wailing wall
punished by fate
punished by poverty
on the floor they crawl
have they ever celebrated
idd no they dont recall
from one goal post
to another goal post
kicked like a football
no their luck wont change
says the oracle
psychic octopus paul

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Namaz Heaven On Earth

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Namaz Heaven On Earth

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Someone Has To Shoot The Shooters Too

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Barefeet Blogger of Bandra West

Shot by BL Soni of DNA


shooting
the streets of pain
a pain that never
ends holistically
healing
the soul of humanity
upload and send
not for money
not for fame
with no evil intent
head bowed in prayer
knees bent
no karmic confusion
to feel sorry
or repent
the call of
the muezzin
peace brotherhood
a message well meant
live let others live
without hate bigotry
our souls re invent
tolerance the mantra
of unity in diversity
ladies and gent

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Photo Journalist Idd Special Picture

The Mumbai photo journalists the dead wood variety, those who have lost it, a mental block of creativity, end up manipulating pictures.
This is the quintessential Idd Hugging picture .
And they expect to compete with those across our shores.
Even the few good photo journos end up like this a lethargy , an apathy, their celebrity status gets them through, now mind you I am not talking about guys in other regions of photography who do am excellent body of work and make us amateurs proud..
I bitch because who do we emulate , in order to become good in this field..its a sad day death of photo journalism and the blame at the photo editors desk.. not beyond.Girish Mistrys kids from his Shari Institute shoot better pictures .. more defiantly and differently too..my criticism is constructive but than you have the God given Freedom of expression to tell me "Go Fuck Off .."

Like a photo journalist who hurled these words at me when I politely told him to come up with something new ..I hold nothing against him personally he shoots what his photo editor wants and unlike a blogger he has to earn his living , luckily I moderate my own photos and work under no editorial constrains.

I shoot a poem and am happy it ends up as a picture..

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Idd Namaz at Bandra Station

every year come what may
i shoot the idd namaz
with my camera
i come this way
shoot the followers
of Allah head bowed
in prayer
with you the rest
of humanity
a spiritual
moment
of peace
love brotherhood
i share
barefeet
with
poetic flair

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