To The Stars

"To the Stars" is a repetition poem in which my intent
was to use at least one line and reproduce it
somewhere else in the writing.  All topics were given
in the Writer's Workshop class I attended recently,
but the individual student selected the themes.  For
this poem, I used the theme from a Japanese Animation
series known in the U.S. as "Robotech."  For fun I
added a Robert Frost and William Cullen Bryant verse
and slight sensibility.  That just came to mind in the
3rd and 4th paragraph.

To The Stars

We went to the stars
One calm stormy night
Up we flew to the stars
Oh so bright
Nothing is barred
Everything is all right

We left our barren planet
To make everything safe
Tidirol beckons us
For the sake of a
Weeping race

Dashing and burning we tear
Through the gap
With our Valkyrie fortress
We do bring our wrath
To crush the masters in
Their own burning swath

Are we a war-like race
Like our friends do
Say so
It is hard to believe the
Strife of the human soul

Someday we will return
To our earthly place
To the land of our birthing waste

We went to the stars
One calm stormy night

- By Rajit Hazarika, Kansas. Rajit is an 11th grade
student in Overland Park High School, Kansas.