Sunset afterglow....

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it. 

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything. - Charles Dickens

Landscape at Kadwad, Karwar

View of the Landscape from the Highest Point at Kadwad village. The water body is the Kali River, and its Backwaters that extend upto Kadwad. The Arabian Sea is also visible on the horizon, along with the Kurumgad Island. This was taken a day before yesterday (sunday), when the Rains had receded for the day...

SUNLIGHT UPON THE LANDSCAPE

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Light on the landscape -- one effulgent ray

Scatters the shadows of the night away,

Lights up the mountains, robed in living green,

Lights up the valleys, nestling close between,

Discloses pit-falls, deep and wild morass,

The dizzy precipice, and dangerous pass,

And warns the traveler, wending on his way,

To fly the peril while it yet is day.

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Palms' Silhouette

Silhouette of Palm Trees
A silhouette is a view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black.

Silhouette of my soul

The dark mountain behind me looks so different
For every time I look it’s changed
My soul has the same identity
For when I think I have finally got it under control
The silhouette changes

The mountain starts it day dark with a siloute that defines it
My soul is always in dark
The mountain gets more defined as sun comes up
My soul is always dark
The mountain end up dark again
The silhouette changes

My soul starts it day
Always hung-over from last days confusing silhouettes
so I begin clawing my way out of the deep hole
Even in sleep my soul is confusing
I dream about things that always seem in the dark

Then one of my silhouettes comes up and shines all the darkness away
Bring a smile to day that started with a mountain of undefined silhouettes
I can hold this in place as long as I need it, because I do…always
So when the darkness approaches to make the mountain undefined
It silhouette lost again my silhouette of counterfeit dies a death everyday
In comes the dark

Drunk again with so many silhouettes of my soul that want to be
I fall down under my mountain of darkness in a silhouette
My soul surrounded by light, but the face of my soul in the dark
Hidden the truth of what all these moments mean
So I pass out drunk on confusion for the next day will be the same

The silhouette of my soul

John Doe

This picture was taken at Kadwad village, from the Paddy fields, just after the sunset. It did rain a bit after a few seconds of clicking this picture. The location was the venue for the yearly feast of a local diety, and the whole village was taking part in the festivities.
I didnt know the picture would turn out like this, and God knows what else can a Nokia N-70 mobile-cam can do...

Just in Time

Early morning, before the sunrise, is always a Good time for fishing in the Backwaters in Kadwad-Sunkeri, and these fishermen are just doing that...

Got this picture just in time, as the lead weights of the Spiral Fishing Net was hitting the surface of the super-calm water surface....

Oh wish I had a better camera, I would have captured the lead weights of the fishing-net hitting the water surface.....

Mother and Child

Child of My Heart
From the moment that I knew about you,
I loved you.
For months I carried you under my heart.
Watching you grow,
And waiting for the day when I would finally meet you.
When they placed you in my arms,
I loved you even more.

I held you snugly to my breast and stared into your eyes with total amazement.
Then as you grew and went through life’s many stages,
My amazement grew to awe.
You are a part of me and yet you are not.
You are who you are.
And all that you have been, all that you are, all that you will be,
Makes me love you even more.
You are my child,
My legacy,
Through you I will live forever.
For as you grow and as your children and their children will grow,
You will each carry on a part of me.
Though I love you not for the immortality that you give me,
But for the child of my heart that you are.

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Let the Sleeping Dogs Lie....

You've heard of the old saying let sleeping dogs lie,
Which in another way put means leave old grudges die.
Do not harbour old grudges for as long as you live,
You may not forget but you sure can forgive........

- Francis Duggan

Clicked this picture on a cool morning, just after sunrise, near the Kali Backwaters at Sunkeri-Kadwad, in Karwar. These dogs were content to lie there, without bothering about me, even when i stepped close to them to click this picture, and they continued to lie there.... These dogs look the same, maybe of the same mother....

Green - January Theme - Best Photo of 2008

Green

Green is money 
green is my truth 
Green is honey 
on my roof 

Green is my god 
green is land 
Green is a wad 
of contraband 

Green is a color 
green is my name 
Green is the dollar 
that put me in shame 

Green is grass 
green is my car 
Green is a mass 
on a distant star 

Green is my breath 

green is my greed 
Green was the death 
of my spititual seed 

Green runs over 
green runs deep 
Green is the rover 
that warrants my keep 

Green is my love 
green is the beginning 
Green is above 
my personal sinning 

Green is peace 
green is a tree 
Green is an aura 
that helps me to be 

Green is my soul 
green is my heart 
Green is my goal 
to heal me to start 

Green is the mountain 
green is the sea 
Green is a fountain 
that washes o'er me 

Green is a place 
green is learning 
Green is this race 
that keeps on burning

Green is the world 
green are the people 
Green are hurled 
under a steeple 

Green is the grace 
green is meek 
Green is a face 
that I will seek 

Green is forgiving 
green is rising 
Green is for living 
and compromising 

Green is a planet 
green is a kingdom 
Green is a pallet 
of colors of wisdom 

Green is this word 
green has meaning 
Green is a bird 
flying and leaning 

Green is my life 
green is my way 
Green will strive 
to keep me at bay 

Green is not money 
green is my truth 
Green is honey upon my roof..... 

Poet - Jon Coe.

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