Barakoa - sonnets in a time of plague

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BARAKOA

On the tides of Lolwe fountainhead of the Nile, the Ankh, Siaya's beautiful Soul dances the direful Coronach, her chant-song for her beloved river Nile now dead. 

 

As the Ankh dances on the bleak tides the barque of the sun capsizes out of the sky at sunset with the body of her beloved Nile. As the barque of the dead makes the feared journey across the abyss of the damned Siaya's beautiful Soul sings her rage against death. The rage of the Ankh shutters the chains binding the Soul of her beloved and the boat of the dead begins the arduous journey of the return of the Soul reborn. 

 

The Ankh's beautiful dance guides the sun boat out of the abyss of the dead and at dawn the triumphant sun reaches for the sky. As Siaya's beautiful Soul dances the joyous dance of the reborn sun, her bleak Coronach turns into the great song of affirmation , rebirth and renewal.

 

BARAKOA is a sonnet sequence chronicling the dolorous journey of the Soul, her perilous quest for rebirth, and the glorious dance of resurrection that the Ankh sings with the return of the glorious sunrise of the Soul. BARAKOA thus mirrors the journey of the Ankh, Siaya’s beautiful Soul. As the land suffers from the devastating plague so does the Ankh. As the land remembers that, once, there was a promise made, an oath sworn, a debt of honour, so does the beautiful Ankh reach the soaring heights of the Coronach become the dance of rebirth, affirmation, renewal. 


BARAKOA - sonnets on a plague devastating Siaya. The land elects the beautiful child-maiden to take the mantle of the Ankh, Siaya's beautiful soul, chant the Coronach and save the land in the time of the Corona virus.


          

 

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