Gracemount High School S1 and S2 students and Matthew Fitt paid a visit to Our Dynamic Earth to explore deep space, the tongue-twisting language of sci-fi poetry and the possibility of other life forms on faraway planets.

Farewell to Planet Musbeca

"Goodbye, Musbeca!"
I say as I stand at the window
Of our craft
As we leave Musbeca
Watching its misty blue
Corners drift away
Seeing
The people we have met
They used to be strange
Now they are normal to us.
The weather was raining
An eclipse of the fou rth moon Kastrik
Came to say farewell.

Christina Grieve

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Farewell to Starmea

I stand upon the planet
Watching it move,
Watching it glow
Getting far away in a moment
Remembering who I know.
Split into two parts
One Valanea
One Purpus.
One as red as volcanoes
One as white as ice.
Wind roving round and round
And stars shining bright
Red and white, white and red.
'Looks beautiful,' I said.
Wind was cold
Noise was sweet
Like a lorry telling me to sleep.
Going to my home
To my family in planet Earth
I am happy too and I am sad as well.
Shall I laugh or shall I cry
As divided as land and sky.

Bilal Ahmed

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I stand alone in my starship
For the last time I watch the moons align,
The planet Clyptec shakes violently
As the stormy wave runs over it.
The Clyptecians rush to fissures to miss the
Swelling, fiery blast of power.
But are dragged screaming into the
Beam of fiery vapour.
I feel sorry for them, but glad to leave Clyptec
I will return to my own planet
And never see Clyptec again.

James McCutcheon