I
a treepie alights
on the wooden window sill
for biscuit crumbs
I hide behind the blue door
to pick words from morning bowl
II
to step in or not
a shy, hesitant winter’s
clumsy feet quiver
shiulis* are yet to arrive
for the leased out date palm trees
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*Shilulis are people collecting sap of date palm trees to make date palm jaggery, a delicacy of West Bengal.
Posted for Micropoetry Month: Nov 2017 #17 hosted by Thotpurge
sumanar/lekha 
Love the words in morning’s bowl.. the second though is a classic! Winter’s clumsy feet and the shiulis with their surefooted climb up the palm trees! And the taste of nolen gur ice cream… !!! Thanks for sharing Sumana.
A gentle moment there with the treepie. You were both in your own morning mediation.
Her in the blessing of charity left, yours in the charity of words.
These are nicely done, Sumana. 🙂
Lovely and now I know where jaggery comes from .
Lovely tanka
have a nice Friday
much love…
..to pick words from morning bowl…made me smile. Love your tankas☺
Very nice juxtaposition in first tanka, and beautiful rendering of seasons/nature in second, in fact very warm rendering. So well-crafted.