Melissa Kellogg

From the Stars Melissa Kellogg

In these poems, fantasy intertwines with emotion to create an otherworldly theme. It's not this solar system and beyond that are visited but the foreignness of life and even ourselves. Don't we all feel different-alien almost? Sometimes, we wonder why we are here. From watching airliners land, disco lights in the sky, and the blinking circuit board of a dystopian city, these poems capture what it's like to witness life with wonder and angst. And when we feel like running away, far away, we do so to the moon. Is it because we are homesick as another poem explores? When the world is being destroyed by kaiju manifested from the violence and greed of humankind, how do we proceed? There is fear, but as a couple of poems explain, we must have the courage to be superhuman. It takes a wise soul to recognize that we have to focus on what we can control, which is how we respond to any given situation. Heartbreak, love, loneliness, and depression are touched upon, as they are companions of ours throughout this endeavor we agreed to experience-an experience called life on Earth. These and other poems that focus on resilience can be found throughout this poem collection. Our emotions tell us one thing throughout these pages: we may have come from the stars, but we are exactly where we should be, no matter how we might feel.