The Wish-Granting Tree

beautifully told...

I had to read this at least three times out of necessity just to grasp that it was about a tree, a couple and a boy.
 
Allow me to re-arrange the lines into what I think would be a more beneficial structure that would minimize confusion.
 
Parijatam is singing.
 
As the sun shifts low  
she lights her Panjat candles;  
each one a promise, a coin, a kiss.  
Her perfume is jasmine and frangipan.  
  
"You are everything I wished for," he says,  
"And more".  He still leaves her though.  
 
Parijatam - arbor tristis - is not singing.
As the sun lifts its face from drinking the water,  
her children spill from her arms, glorify the ground.

Thanks  Magnetron, but no,  It is based on a Buddhist legend, and the order is as it should be..  In fact you have missed out the most important part, which is that Parijatam's children - i.e. the flowers with their bright orange stalks - will be used to make saffron dye for new robes, such as those worn by the boy who collects the flowers.  In a sense, he is one of her children from a previous harvest.

If you google 'parijatam robes' or 'wish granting tree' you'll find more information.

I understood the 3rd part.    
   
I chose only to comment on the initial 2/3rds that I had difficulty with in regards to what was actually what.    
   
Does it involve    
   
a tree, a woman and a man    
   
-or-    
   
a tree expressed in a symbolic female/male relationship ?  
 
If you re-arranged the lines as I suggested, it would likely appear clearer to the average reader that it is one or the other or possibly both.
 
The current arrangement is ambiguous and cause for additional reads out of need for clarification.

But that's also me wanting to reread poems again and again because I enjoyed them, not because they didn't make immediate sense during the initial read.

Well Magnetron, no one else seems to have a problem with it - here or in other places I've published it.  Poems are often symbolic and not always clear at first reading.  I'm not prepared to rewrite it just because one person is confused, sorry.

I don't have a problem with it. It was just a suggestion from a reader.  
 
A suggestion that you skirted in favor of saying the reader was oblivious to the final 3rd of the poem.  
 
Keep in mind that the Honest Critique option is for Honest Critique.  Tick the Friendly Feedback option if you are not comfortable with Honest Critique.
 
Happy Writing.

Yes, assuredly, and more blessings will come.

Likewise, but thank you for your attempts

I didn't skirt infavour,nor inpersuasion of a little festive cheerin' the mistaken

Happy Writing to you and yours, also.

This captures the deep, cyclic nature of life.

wonderful story & scenery. mournful beauty...

wonderful

Very enlightening words you offer here.  Thank you for the reminder of the, Upanishads, and the razor's edge.

Thank you.  I'm glad you like it.

I'm going to feature this poem
for the reminder of the Upanishads
and the razor's edge.

And for the reminder of the Upanishads eho fif not die in vein.

if you do, btw, may I see the link please? Tha x

Thank you, I'm honoured.

Sara