Winter Skips Bengal

             

courtesy: google image

Mischievous is truant winter

With its feet ready to drop out

Pursing its warm lips in a pout

Runs the errant child of Nature

El Nino is its dearest peer

Holding hands they joyfully shout

Mischievous is truant winter

With its feet ready to drop out

Green parrots now are in despair

Date palm sap forgot to drip out*

We failed to meet its needs no doubt

So it flees and elsewhere loiters

Mischievous is truant winter

*In winter a slit is made into the date palm tree for the sap to drip out and collect into a pot to be made into jaggery by heating (During summer the heat at night makes the sap rancid and alcoholic).This is known as Nolen Gurh in Bengal, a winter delicacy. But this year we almost had a warm December and topsy turvy weather because of El Nino.

 

Posted for dVerse MTB; The Rondel

Nolen Gurh, courtesy   ; google image