
Dance, stroll, and ramble
Poet: Alireza Bemanian
|January 4, 2026
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Dance, stroll, and ramble,
hike, roam, and amble,
when, the modes, means, and manners,
seduce, prompt, and prod.
The vast meadows of vision,
paddocks of intrusions, interfaces and incursions,
the constancy of the moves, combine, gather, and alter,
the changes, breaks, alterations, is it figment, or, confirmation.
The sky is blue, the oceans web and ebb,
the forests grow, breed, and nurture,
squirrels bound, leap, and hop,
rewards, paybacks, additions, remind, induce convictions.
The wholeness and entirety, totality, unity,
resonate and resound, vibrate and surmount—
vitality, verve, and vigor, rings and echoes,
breed and burgeon, to veil thwarts and angers.
Participants, accomplices, partakers,
contestants, contenders, contributors,
resurrect, revive, and resurface,
the pendulums veer, dither, and waver.
Rise and resurgence, renaissance and emergence,
designate and renew, succor and restore,
the empty nests, the collapsed cases,
laments, sorrows, and regrets, retreat and flee.
Benefactors and patrons, sponsors and promotors,
and the symphony and opus, the dances and strolls,
to roll and troll, spin and sway, and trundle and hurl,
momentum of the spins, the heaven of earth, to cuddle and squeeze.
The songs and tunes, choruses and chorales,
carols and chants, echoes and beams,
saturate and soak, inundate and deluge.

