Celestial Complaint

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