The Poetry Of Terry
            McDermott


            
 


            
 

            
FROM THE ADVENTURES OF THE HUMAN CARDINAL



            Kent Cool Comes to Town

            (This was done in shadorma)

            
 

            
One morning

            
In Brooke Meadow Lane

            
Came Kent Cool

            
A wrestler

            
Who challenged the red bird man

            
To a three round bout

            
 

            
The title

            
Cool laid before him

            
A shiny

            
Silver belt

            
He was champion of the

            
Entire universe

            
 

            
Blue Wonder

            
Was thrilled with glee

            
Yet Benny

            
Objected

            
Though is was a bad idea

            
To fight the champ

            
 

            
 

            
The Deadly Brand X

            (This post was done in the PI form.)

            
Accepting the challenge

            Against

            Benny the Bat's objection

            The 

            Two met at the gym

            Blue Tornado Boy knew Uncle Pluto's Orange Soda gave

            Great strength

            To Brooke Meadow Lane's feathered hero

            Minutes before the bell

            Human Cardinal gulped down three two liter bottles

            Then Benny saw Blue Wonder's very tragic mistake

            He had been given the generic lethal Brand X!

            Earlier Kent Cool had made the switch

            Knowing that Brand X would weaken the Human Cardinal

            To near death

            
 

            
Aunt Neptune's Grape Soda

            (The post is done in naani form)

            
Red feathers were falling

            All over the place

            The doctors could do nothing

            Old H.C was almost gone

            
Benny the Bat

            Searched the galaxy

            For a bottle of

            Uncle Pluto's Orange Soda

            
None could found

            But Benny had some luck

            He found a bottle of

            Aunt Neptune's Grape Soda

            
The little green bat

            Arrived just in time

            Human Cardinal

            Was breathing his breath

            
The red bird man

            Was not a hundred percent

            But he would live

            Meantime Kent Cool fled

            
Uncle Pluto is now making more bottles
            of his orange soda. 

            The red bird man plans to hunt the tied-dyed hippie down!

            




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Terry
            McDermott lives in Crossett Arkansas and works in a laboratory
            for Georgia Pacific Paper. He is the author of "Tales of
            the Carnivorous Duck: A Collection of Stories and Poems."
            These days his main focus is working on "The Adventures
            of the Human Cardinal," a story of a superhero told in various
            poetic forms. His motivation for writing these stories is to
            show kids that poetry can be fun. You can read more of Terry's
            writing on his blog The Shamgar Report where he has been writing
            since 2005

            
Also visit Terry's internet home.
            or at http://shamgarreport.blogspot.com/