The Intellectual Abyss .Part one

The blogger ibikunle Abraham laniyan authors new series of sonnets to explore theme around the overwhelming pedigree and vast nature of knowledge.

Sonnets 1: The overwhelming nature of vast knowledge.

Behold the labyrinthine corridors,

Where valetudinarians repose;

The intellectual and ancient lores,

In unintelligible verse disclose.

A recapitulation of the past,

Illuminating every shadowed thought,

With magnanimity so thick and vast,

In philosophical refinement wrought.

Yet insignificance remains the goal,

Amidst extraordinary circumstance;

Incomprehensibility of soul,

In multisyllabic and wild deliverance.

For beauty is a transient delight,

Surviving only in the spirit’s light.

Sonnet II: The Stygian Architecture

Theme: Gothic decay and forgotten structures.

The dilapidation of the monument,

Suggests a subterranean despair;

With architectural abandonment,

In melancholy and the chilly air.

Ecclesiastical and grand design,

Now antediluvian and gray with age;

Where superstitions and the ghosts entwine,

Upon this desolated and broken stage.

A reformation of the mortal mind,

Necessitating solitary dread;

In tapestries the centuries unkind,

Have woven for the unremembered dead.

Though reputation fades like morning mist,

The darkness will eternally persist.

Sonnet III: The Pathological Ordeal

Theme: Medical and scientific dread.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsili-

Covolcanoconiosis fills the lung;

A pathological and deadly plea,

In languages of misery unsung.

Prognostication of a grim disease,

Necessitating immediate relief;

With unavoidable and sharp degrees,

Of incommunicable and heavy grief.

The pharmaceutical and cold regime,

Of antithetic and corrosive cure;

Is but a temporary and hollow dream,

That mortals must periodically endure.

For biological and brief is breath,

Before the unavoidable of death.

Sonnet IV: The Linguistic Conundrum

Theme: The complexity of language

Sonnet IV: The Linguistic Conundrum

Theme: The complexity of language itself.

Floccinaucinihilipilification,

Of lexicographical and mighty skill;

A total metamorphical creation,

That intellectuals strive to fulfill.

Sesquipedalian and dense decree,

Of circumlocution and the vague intent;

Inextricably bound to liberty,

In venerated and strange argument.

Polysyllabically we strive to speak,

Commemorating ancient etymology;

Though definitions are obscure and weak,

Within this unoriginal anthology.

Let pedantries obliterate the weak,

As definitions are the truths we seek.

Sonnet V: The Astronomical Silence

Theme: The terrifying scale of the universe.

Intergalactically the void expands,

In unimaginable and cold excess;

Beyond the limitations of the hands,

Or mathematical and vast finesse.

The constellations in alignment glow,

Precipitating universal fear;

While gravitational and silent flow,

Suggests a cataclysmic end is near.

Extraordinary is the stellar birth,

Yet temporary is the solar flame;

Away from insignificant and dusty Earth,

Where none remember a familiar name.

For cosmos is a multisyllabic sea,

Of endless and dark originality.