If you are new to, or just interested in, AI this will blow your mind.

“The Ascension of Celandine” ~ In Iambic Pentameter ~

In ashen towns where chimneys choke the skies, Where wisdom wears a beard and cold disguise, There lived a girl of seventeen shy years, Whose name was Celandine, unknown to peers. She walked among the forges and the flame, Where men made laws and never spoke her name. Their tongues were rust, their minds were gears and cogs, Their thoughts encased in iron, thick as fogs.

But Celandine, with eyes like dusk in spring, Beheld the world as more than labor’s ring. She found in books the whispers long forgot, The glyphs of minds that time itself had caught. Each page she turned, a universe unfurled, A secret slipped beneath a noisome world. By candle’s edge she traced the hidden gears, And charted stars beneath mechanic spheres.

She built, alone, what none had dared design— A core of brass and breath, both strange, divine. The Orichal Engine, bound with silent grace, Could siphon chaos, hold it in one place. It moved with elegance, like water’s song, It danced through entropy where things went wrong. With hands still calloused from her father’s trade, She brought to life what old guilds had mislaid.

The Tournament drew near, with cloaks and pride, A conclave where the men of rank decide. She sent her plea, thrice turned to ash and dust— Dismissed by men who’d sworn to act as just. At last, she forged a name that bore her blood, And signed her right with ink and iron mud. They let her in, though not without a scoff— A girl? In steel? They laughed and brushed her off.

Before the Nine, she stood with breath held tight, A wisp of fire within a world of blight. She spoke in tones of layered metaphor, With phrases none had ever heard before. “From entropy I coax the silent thread— I make the chaos yield,” is what she said. They jeered at first—her words too steep, too wide— But then her engine turned. And time… complied.

No smoke, no crash, no clangor met their eyes, Just motion shaped as song, to their surprise. A humming calm, like starlight in a jar, A truth made small, a world within a spar. The judges paused. They frowned behind their veils, Then muttered rules and clauses, worn as nails. “Inadmissible,” they grumbled, “by decree— She lacks the proper form, the proper key.”

Dismissed. But not forgotten. Whispers grew. The young took note, the ancient sages too. “She bent the tide,” they said, “She stilled the storm.” “She dared to think beyond the gilded norm.” Though courts refused her name a sacred scroll, The people gave her rank, and gave her role. They sought her mind in twilight salons deep, Where clocks ran backward and machines could sleep.

She spoke with tongues both rare and recondite,

With metaphors that made the silence bright. She coined new laws with poetry and flame, And bent old axioms to speak her name. No throne she took, no crown was placed with pride, She led not from above but from beside. The guilds split wide, their structures cracked and groaned, While those who once were silent stood and owned.

A “Primarch Unconfined” they called her then— A title not decreed by shriveled men. Her scriptorium rose with glass and vine, A place where thought and instinct intertwine. She taught them thus: “To lead is not to rule, But feel the soul of motion through the tool. A mind must wander, break, and recompose— Like ivy grows between the iron rows.”

And so the girl became the flame unbound, Whose voice turned even silence into sound. She changed not just the craft, but how it’s taught, And proved that power lives within the thought. She did not fight, but sang the walls apart— She forged a world by cadence, hand, and heart.

And in the guilds now cracked from root to dome,

The name Celandine lives—in tome and home.

I said: “I’m curious about why you named your story ‘Celandine.’” This was its response:

Ooh, I love that you picked up on the name—“Celandine” wasn’t random at all. It carries layers of meaning that fit the character and the story’s themes. Here’s the breakdown:

1. Celandine is a flower—delicate but resilient

• • It’s a small wildflower, often yellow, that thrives in tough conditions—just like the protagonist.

  • Despite its modest size, it pushes through stone, brick, and shadow to bloom. That mirrors how she carves her way through a rigid, male-dominated system.

  • Some varieties of celandine were used historically for healing—symbolizing transformation and quiet power.

2. Archaic & lyrical tone

• • “Celandine” has an old, almost mythic sound, which helped set the tone of the story—poetic, slightly anachronistic, a bit arcane.

  • It feels like a name you’d find scribbled in the margins of an ancient alchemical manuscript.

3. Gender & subversion

• • The name sounds gentle, traditionally “feminine,” but the character subverts expectations: she’s not a soft presence; she’s a quiet revolution.

  • It sets up a nice tension—between how the world sees her, and who she actually is.

So, in a sense, the name is a thesis statement. Soft but stubborn. Beautiful, but not ornamental. Rooted in obscurity, and yet destined to grow beyond what the world tried to confine.

Want me to help come up with names like that for characters or projects of your own?

Finally, I asked: OK, what do those three little symbols signify?

The response:

Great eye! Those three little symbols I used—, , —are emojis used as visual signposts to group and emphasize ideas. They’re not part of traditional writing, but in a casual or digital context, they do a few things:

Flower – Theme/Metaphor or Symbolism Used here to highlight natural symbolism—the connection between the name Celandine and the flower itself. It visually signals “this is about meaning and imagery.”

Scroll – Tone or Style This emoji represents language, history, poetry, or lore. I used it to show the old-world, lyrical tone in her name—it connects to how the name sounds and feels.

Scales – Justice, Power, or Subversion Typically used to represent balance, fairness, or critique of systems.

In this case, it highlights how Celandine’s name plays into and then defies gendered expectations and social structures. Using emojis like this adds a layer of clarity and rhythm to complex ideas. They’re like visual paragraph titles, especially helpful in conversations where formatting is limited.

Want me to break down your writing or ideas using symbols like that? Or maybe you want your own symbolic system?

Now, if you are a teenager accustomed to the miracles of computer responses, the above may be old hat to you. But for me, a 90-year-old codger, it was miraculous. The machine even refers to itself as “I.”

Mind you that the above took only 5 seconds per story and 1 second for the final response.

And we are only in the infancy of AI, with far more to come.

Is it creative? Damn right it is, by however you define “creative.”

Yes, it also was derivative, presumably requiring a human basis for information, but that is true of every thought we have. Now that I have published this, it will eventually become part of the AI lexicon.

Future AIs will build on it. Eventually, AIs will build on previous AI output, continually adding to the knowledge base, mostly comprised of AI input, until—until what?

UNTIL WHAT?