Another school day, found in learning’s shrine
Thoughts seeking adventure’s breath of escape
Youth deserves to fill tomorrow’s headlines
Endless visions gathered, flight plan takes shape
Looking up into heavens’ blackened sky
Seeking to travel amongst brightest stars
Dreaming of final frontier, flying high
Searching incessant mysteries afar
Piloting starship of latest design
Fascinating discoveries in view
Transforming as universe redefines
Unlocking galaxy’s intimate clues
Departing from mankind’s earthly cocoon
Reading Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon”
This poem has been crafted as a sonnet: Note the four stanzas filled out with 14 lines, each line contains a total of 10 syllables, and the consistent rhyming pattern connects every other line in each stanza. It is doubtful that William Shakespeare ever considered designing a sonnet around this theme. Renowned French writer Jules Verne published one of literature’s earliest science-fiction novels, From the Earth to the Moon, in 1865.