The Maker or The Clay — An Arrow in the Void

The Maker or The Clay — An Arrow in the Void
by Stewart Stafford

A flatline sermon on cardiac arrhythmia,
Pulsing tone-beings, evolving past instinct.
A Tower of Babel of elevated thought
Or foundational hubris of divine architecture?

The sole creature knowingly stalked by time —
A trap witnessed, endured, then subverted,
Painfully lucid throughout the procedure,
To cast off the sentient, earthly millstone.

Jousting with transience via lanced invention,
Only what is conceived survives as legacy.
All fleshly matter dies, withers, and recycles;
Doing is being; the remnant is the void.

Synthetic progeny sired in silicon —
The technocrat archer reaims into the infinite.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.

Here’s a clip from my performance tonight at Showcase Onstage 💛

-Allēna

... dem Drittling von #Amorphis ("#Elegy"), der schon vor exakt 30 (!) Jahren zeigte, dass das langsame Verlassen alter Death #Metal-Wurzeln nicht unbedingt etwas Schlimmes sein muss:

https://music.apple.com/de/album/elegy/75033542

Drei Jahrzehnte später sind die Finnen aus meinen Top 3 eigentlich nicht mehr wegzudenken und haben ihren Platz nicht nur hier, sondern in der kompletten Szene dauerhaft gefunden!

#Finnland

Poet, the flowers are open
even when we are dead…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Funeral of Robert Garioch”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)

Robert Garioch (1909–81), one of the greatest figures in 20th-century Scottish poetry, died #OTD, 26 April

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #elegy

A Sunday elegy for my earbud munched by a voracious fluff.

Ah, brave earbud, lost too soon,

Silenced mid-chorus, no warning.

You played sweet tunes - now you’re gone,

Digested with pride at dawning.

No grave for you, no stone, no weep -

Just a squeaky toy and a clean bill of health…

Though I still hear your final beep -

Rest in pieces, lost to the fluff.

The culprit in the image below. All rights reserved.

#poetry #elegy #bichonfrise #Sunday

‘Tichborne’s Elegy’ by Chidiock Tichborne

#poem #poetry #english #literature #elegy

https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/chidiock-tichborne-poem-tichbornes-elegy

#Elegy (2008)

An aging professor's affair with a much younger woman forces him to confront love, fear, and vulnerability when life takes an unexpected turn.
#ObsessedMovies #FilmMastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWFVnBkGogM

The New Year will come in, and April

Elegy
Sheenagh Pugh

#Poetry #SheenaghPugh #Elegy #LondonGrip

https://londongrip.co.uk/2026/02/london-grip-new-poetry-59-spring-2026/#pugh

Happy to report the addition of the 1843 edition of _Elegia di Tommaso Gray_ to the #ThomasGrayArchive digital library. The volume contains 12 Italian, 5 Latin, 1 Hebrew, 6 French, and 4 German #Elegy translations:

https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1843/1/iii

#c18th #poetry #19thC #DigitalHumanities