Planetarian Haiku

a poem by Charishma Jaikishin Ramchandani

Small wanderer
Swift on his travel-
Mercury

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Brilliant light
Abundant with love-
Venus

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Fierce red
On a wobbly erratic path-
Mars

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Precious stone
With warmly coloured striations-
Jupiter

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Yellow giant
Wearing rings of ice and rock-
Saturn

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Slow moving
Giant with rings-
Uranus

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Confused deceived giant
Imagines, idealises, creates-
Neptune