I'm not sure I follow the initial post either. Are you saying that the moon is a cliche and thus shouldn't be in a poem? Or can only be in a poem if it is used in a fresh way? I don't think a physical object can be a cliche. A trope or a symbol or a rhyme (moon/June) or a comparison might be cliche. But the physical objects themselves can't be--whether moon or roses or what have you. They just are. If the moon shows up in a lot of poems all over the world throughout time that is surely because of the universal experience of the moon.
I think this thread could belong to mastery if it became a thread for the discussion of moon poems, of the moon in poems. Any takers?
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