A picture is worth a thousand words
Said an ad-man counting money
We forgot why
Coz he didn’t say it with pictures
So we flocked to the gram
From the tyranny of words
Words that shaped the world
And ended empires
Words that made us weep
With joy, with grief, with life
Are refugees now
In a world of colour
Posing for screenshots
And asking how much
A picture of a thousand words is worth
Note: They told me no one reads blogs any more. You have to do Instagram. I realized it does work well, and helps me write poetry which I had assumed I couldn’t. But had to write how I felt about the whole thing
The Apathetic Indian 
On the gram? Probably worth a few likes, comments and reposts..currency of engagement
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Currency of instant gratification. The part of me who’s a photographer is angry at this mockery
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Pictures and the art of photography are not defined by time or technology, what matters is how much it captures or what it intends to define. During the renaissance you had councils, the Victorian era gave rise to museums where the worth of a picture was dependent on how many visitors. The delivery of opinion has changed, from critical articles to like/comments/shares.
Artists have never needed the world to accept them or their art, so why be angry at the changing forms of gratification?
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I wouldn’t say I’m angry. Just feel that words and pictures are both different art forms to be appreciated. Today, words get reach only if you screenshot it and put it on a picture sharing platform.
I’m just sad that a fish has to learn to climb.
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Never saw you as a poet, but should have known you can do wonders with words- no matter which form.
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Thanks! Still can’t rhyme, even if my life depended on it.
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