The Flamingo City

Navi Mumbai Mahanagarpalika

Has been awarded first prize amongst

All corporations, cities, towns in India

By the cleanliness and the beautification dint

Besides sanitation drive throughout

Nooks and corners of the streets

Massive painting has been carried

Out on the walls, pillars, under FOBs,

Of the animals, human beings, cultural

Events, variety of colourful plants, birds,

Especially bright pink reddish feathers,

Stilt legs, S type neck, filter feather,

Wading, nestling in the mud, lives

On the planktons, creatures, insects

In the muddy, marshy, salty, water

Threatened by predators and the poachers

Pink metal sculpture of which have

Been erected in the main squares

Found all over the world in six

Species, most of them seem flamboyant

Plunder, flocking in thousands every year

At Karave, Palm Beach, Nerul, Turbhe MIDC,

Large flamingos sanctuaries at all creeks

Befitting the name ‘Flamingo city’