The challenge:

Is to draft a poem about a superhero or heroine.

Personal Note:

Having cleared the smoky tears of disappointment from my bloodshot eyes whilst watching from the sidelines, I have persisted with my pursuit of the original Smackdown Flat Earth theme. And although this is one of the craziest acrostic poems I have ever written, it has worked out perfectly, allowing me to create a biblical mechanoid super person.

PREACHER MAN

Placed on a table out of harm's way sat an exhausted and forlorn-looking little steam engine, he might not be human, but he could still pray.

Reaching deep into his mechanical soul, with ticks and tocks he summoned the spirit of the old grandfather clock.

Each word of his mantra resonated inside the tin can that formed his belly, the cooling cinders and ash began to swirl in his tiny boiler, the furnace remnants of his homeworld which without tinder had lain stagnant until now.

Almighty toy maker, I pray not for me but for my young master who has been captured by futuristic automatons and strapped to a chair, and for what purpose I know not is being experimented upon.

Can I beg that you make and send us a clockwork saviour to rescue him from these fiendish demons, with glowing red eyes they call LEDs?

He breathes in deeply and with his final puff of steam, emits a shrill whistle which is so loud it draws the attention of the powerful-looking figure residing in the mind of his young master.

Ethos the God of Moral Integrity, known by his peers as the Preacher Man due to his frequent habit of preaching from the lectern, is wielding a flat earth-style disc-shaped Meta Bible, with a swing of a bionic arm he hurls the Meta Bible, in an ancient Greek discus fashion. It soars from the cathedral ceiling's clockwork portal, to bounce around in the mind of little Marius and exorcises all the automaton's dastardly probes.

Round and round, flew the Meta Bible, leaping meta-physically from one boy's mind to another, carrying out the same exorcism freeing their minds of the invasive probe, and freed from the automaton's steam-driven mind control they awake.

Moving from mind to matter in a puff of smoke the half-human, half-mechanoid Preacher Man bearing the wings of an angel leaps from the portal in the cathedral ceiling and rippling with God's life-giver lightning summons the return of his Meta Bible, which appears in his hand as if by magic.

And with a snap of his forefinger and thumb, the Meta Bible divides into its many booklets, the misdeeds of the automatons must be undone, so Ethos despatched the Micro Bibles one by one to finish a job only half done.

Now it was the turn of the automatons, his Micro Bibles were set to work separating the parts which were human and the parts which were mechanical, and the book of Genesis gave both forms life and of course, Marius's toy train who became the Son of a Preacher Man was commanded to watch over the new life forms as they served their penance, repairing his beautiful blue planet which for no good reason had been split into multiple flat earths.