Three Poems
Three short works about nature and people. You’ll be done with them in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.
By John G. Stamos
Bee Lines
John G. Stamos
A bee touches down,
Then investigates and inspects
The secret inner workings
Of a flower.
Is knowledge, of any kind,
Imparted?
Has either party become
The wiser?
Have both?
“Bee Lines” ©2025. John G. Stamos and The Renaissance Garden Guy
Trauma-rama
John G. Stamos
Exhibitions of fury,
Cavalcades of sound,
Demonstrations of might.
The polity of hormonal
Decree, or something
Learned and therefore more
Sinister?
“Trauma-rama” ©2025. John G. Stamos and The Renaissance Garden Guy
Right Brain: Redacted
John G. Stamos
O great scribe, commandeering algorithmic
Social whorls,
Mighty wielder of C++ words,
Your Lisp is your quill,
Your ink drips from the mighty Python’s
fangs.
Your art issues from within ML bowels
And from frameworks born of the
Coffee-and-Cheeto-stained keyboards
Of code-whisperers.
Is the alphabet yet a mystery to you?
Do you know where to place the commas?
“Right Brain: Redacted” ©2025. John G. Stamos and The Renaissance Garden Guy
Bees are cool. Flowers, too. Are human behaviors like brutality and aggression hard-wired or taught? (One’s bad, the other’s worse.) Using artificial intelligence to write your shit for you is cheating.
See? I told you that you wouldn’t be here long.
Cheers, and Happy Gardening!
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You are very welcome, my friend! Thanks for sharing with us!
It’s my great pleasure to publish these works here in The RGG, Gerri. I’m so very grateful for your interest and your appreciation.
These are all great, John! Thanks for sharing them with us! My personal favorite was Right Brain Redacted! Really awesome.
Thank you so much for reading these works, Diane, and for your very kind comments. As long as wonderful subscribers and readers like you continue to enjoy my stuff, I’ll continue to publish it right here in The RGG. Btw, I’m beyond pleased with the amazing work of the excellent, gracious contributing RGG writers (we’re publishing more and more work from a growing number of incredibly talented individuals), and I’m incredibly grateful to subscribers and regular readers like yourself, Diane, for your continued interest in our output here. And I’m doubly grateful that you enjoy the stuff that I myself write – it makes me happier than I can describe. I’m also glad to kmow that the third poem struck a chord with you. It becomes frustrating to those of us who legitimately write (our own original, non-AI-sullied work) for a living to have our work hijacked by AI algorithms and used to train more AI algorithms for the express purpose of people who are most decidely NOT writers to use those algorithms to write fake, AI-created material. Where will this crap end? In any case, I’m glad you picked up on the piece’s vibe, and I’m glad you enjoyed it. Once again, Diane, I appreciate your very kind interest, readership, and lovely thoughts. Thank you so very much.
“Right Brain: Redacted”
I love how you so artfully call people/AI on the carpet! “C++ words,” and “Your Lisp is your quill.” “Coffee and Cheeto-stained keyboard,” so visual and truthful. Your brevity is so incredibly eloquent in all 3 of these poems!
“Trauma-rama” and “Bee Lines”
The ending questions hit hard! They make me think and want to riff off the questions into a poem of my own!
Thank you for your attention to detail, eloquence, and brutal honesty!
Wow, Gerri, thank you so much! Your careful and well-phrased analyses are remarkably in tune with the intent of all of these short works. I appreciate your reading each of them, and I appreciate your thoughts about them, and your truly kind words. Thanks once again.
Short, but thought-provoking. I like them.
Many thanks, Michael. I appreciate your reading them, and I’m grateful for your kind words. I’m very happy to know that you’ve enjoyed them. Thanks again.
You write so beautifully.
Your poetry is pure delight.✍️💕😍
Thank you very kindly, Roxxy. I really appreciate that. I’m happy you’re enjoying my work. Again, I’m very, very grateful.
Hi, John. I believe in plant/insect (animal) interaction. Not just on a pollinating level. I grow sunflowers every year. If I want to or not. Finch are plentiful due to this constant summer food source. Over the past few years, with climate change advancing, the Finch are arriving before the sunflowers are even open. I have observed Finch sitting in the plants seemingly “whispering” to the unfurled flowers. I have a theory (maybe not scientific) that the action of the birds “whispering” to the buds causes them to hasten their maturation. And, yes, the bee and flower became wiser.
Keep up your interesting poetry. I enjoy reading.
I completely agree with you regarding the connectivity among the taxonomic kingdoms. It’s not at all far-fetched to imagine communication, or at the very least, communion, between plants and other creatures. And I of course thank you for your very kind words, Lane. They’re truly appreciated.
Poetry seems to be a lost art. However, you have resuscitated this art form beautifully.
Many thanks, Rick. I truly appreciate your kind words. As you point out, poetry – the kind that’s written without the use of AI – seems to have melted back into the shadows to a degree. There are, however, some truly remarkable talents out there writing fabulous poetry. It’s unfortunate that their work needs to compete for readership with machine-generated artificial creativity.
Wonderful poems, John! I immensely enjoyed all three and there is no substitute for the actual creative output of humankind, especially when it is done very well.
Thank you so much, Ann. I really, really appreciate that. And I do agree, art is a human convention, not an algorithmic invention. (My apologies, Ann. I was still stuck in rhyming mode!) But seriously, you’re absolutely right. It’s exactly as you’ve stated here. There is absolutely no substitute for human creativity. Thank you once again, Ann.
Your poems were a perfect treat for my afternoon tea break! Thank you for sharing these!
I’m glad you’ve enjoyed them, Lisa. Thank you for your kind words. And thank you so much for reading what we publish here. I’m very, very grateful.
Wonderful as always. You say so much in just a few words.
Thanks for reading them, Kevin, and thank you for your kind words. And hey, if I keep it short, there’s less of an opportunity for me to bore you. A conscious reader is always the best kind! Thanks once again, Kevin.