Pulicat Processions

Lakshmi Sharath, my blogger friend, travel writer, editor, photographer, and Haiku poet,  posted this photo of the flamingoes at Pulicat  in her article in the leading newspaper The Hindu,  published   here.

The article had to do with how many different types of travelers one may encounter.

I wonder which category the flamingoes, themselves inveterate travelers, fall under.

 In the meanwhile, I just noticed something in the way the birds were conducting themselves.  :-))

(photograph by Lakshmi Sharath)

Slow dignified
steps,
top flamingoes
walk behind the
Head
in the Flamingo Procession,
at
the opening session
of
the Pulicat Flamingo Parliament.

A bit of chaos
in the waters
somewhere behind,
and
the others
nudge
the "backward turners"
into
doing the "right" thing;
and never mind
the doubts
over the
Mumbai Sewri-NhavaSheva bridge
that threatens
to endanger
their northern habitat;

Parliament is Supreme.


For the moment,
appearances
must be maintained,
no wings to be flapped.

Shhhhhh!
A lady from Bengaluru
is clicking them
for a newspaper
in Chennai....