E.T. Finds Friendship and Safety

A poem based on E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

Left
Stranded
Found by kids
Who take him home
And try to help him
Contact the mother ship
As he says ET phone home
Hidden in a pile of stuffies
They ride their bikes out into the night
Using powers of telekinesis

Up
They fly
Past the moon
On a mission
They would never guess
To get him safely back
To the mother ship that left
Poor ET alone, finds friendship
With a group who safely return him
To the big spaceship that comes back for him

Line count = 20


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Written for
Day 6 Etheree
The poetry form, Etheree, consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables.
Etheree can also be reversed and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Get creative and write an Etheree with more than one verse, but follow suit with an inverted syllable count.
Double Etheree: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/etheree.html

Topic-- The Steven Spielberg film that sparked the perfect “minimum effort” Halloween costume for generations. All you need is a little red hoodie, a bike and a white sheet and presto, you’re the delightful boy Elliott (Henry Thomas) and his new friend E.T., the mysterious shaved-sloth looking alien who was stranded on Earth after a cosmic crew neglected to pick up their cutest member. After the sun sets on the children darting in and out of the homes looking for candy, Elliot and his crew have a much larger task at hand — help E.T. phone home. A later autumnal evening climaxes in a cinematic bike ride into the sky, where E.T. uses his powers of telekinesis to fly Elliot up into the twilight. The shot is so iconic it would later become the logo for Amblin Entertainment, Spielberg’s production company. — M.W.
Movie- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982

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Love this movie.