Celestial Complaint
- Hashtag Kalakar
- Oct 3
- 1 min read
By Parvati Uppala
The Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Sea
Trooped to the court to demand a decree
They raised the charges of overuse, defamatory
By poets who shackled them in lines of poetry
The Sun protested that it is branded as bold
Stands indicted of being hot and uncontrolled
They neglected the times when it spares its heat
And the sweat, sunburns it causes, a scorching feat
The Moon alleged that they compare it to a lover
Evoking its name for beauty and peace to cover
Once each month, it withdraws from the sky
And bear a scar that no poet dares to eye
The Stars lamented, they are recognized as a guiding light
Yet terrorized to be cast down to adorn the crown of night
There is a limit to the number of cliches they can bear
For they are billions of radiant spheres burning rare
The Sea grumbled, they are ridiculed for carrying tears
Poets have reiterated this claim across a million years
Their tides are not the highs and lows of life
They drown the secrets, and the silence is rife
The judge announced that the poets stand guilty
Yet spared them a ban, instructed to use words duly
And urged them to coin fresh rhymes or be overruled
To which the cosmos sighed with poets rightly schooled
By Parvati Uppala

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