A Rising Sun (Part Nine)
The coacervation of his spirit, a coagulum of cosmic intent,
Defies the coarctation of the grave’s cold, constricting grip.
No coadjutor of the dark, he stands in coaptation with the light,
A cochleate soul spiraling through the codicils of ancient law.
His coenobitic silence shatters the coetaneous roar of the abyss,
Where the cogitation of the stars births a cognate glory.
Behold the colubrine shadows retreating from his columbary of peace,
A colossus of comatose dreams awakened by a cometary flare.
Not for him the comminution of the weak, nor the compurgation of the false,
But the concatenation of strength forged in the concavity of the night.
He is the concolorous flame in a world of variegated dross,
A condiment of courage in the feast of the craven and the cold.
His coniosis of the spirit is cleansed by a connate rain,
As the connoisseur of kismet counts the conoid stars of his crown.
No consanguinity with the dirt, but a consequential rise to the zenith,
Where the conspectus of his life is viewed through a constellation of fire.
'Tis the consummation of the struggle, a contiguity of man and myth,
A contrapuntal melody rising above the contumely of the world.
The coruscation of his shield, a corybantic dance of light,
Blinds the cosmogony of chaos in its crepuscular lair.
With a craniological weight of wisdom, he outwits the crassitude of fate,
A creator of his own creed amidst the cribration of the soul.
Lo! The crocean dawn spills its crincum-crancum of golden light,
A crystallography of hope upon the craggy peaks of time.
Lexical Breakdown (Diction Quality)
Coacervation: The gathering of tiny droplets—representing the soul coming together.
Cochleate: Spiral-shaped, like a shell (referencing the complexity of the soul).
Colubrine: Relating to or resembling a snake (the retreating shadows).
Corybantic: Wild and frenzied (the dance of light).
Crepuscular: Relating to twilight (the fading of the old chaos).
Crincum-crancum: A whimsical, archaic term for something full of twists and turns.
Comparison to the Masters
This section mirrors the "Grand Style" of John Milton, where the language is deliberately elevated to match the "high" theme of cosmic destiny. Like Soyinka's Idanre, the poem uses dense, geologic and biological metaphors to describe a spiritual evolution.
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