
Demarcations and Delineations
Poet: Dr. Alireza Bemanian
|January 28, 2026
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Demarcations, circumscriptions, delineations, and allocations,
the destiny, fate, and fortune, aptness, suitability, and adaptiveness,
to amend and adjust, alter and acclimate, and promote and endorse,
the absolute, outright, and unmovable, the tangles, snarls, and jams hard to pursue.
The thrusts and rams, momenta and impetuses, eager to surmount and subdue,
procurements dawdle, predicaments and quandaries, dilemmas and impasses,
pronounce and assert, enunciate confidences, to sieve and riddle,
abandon and halt, unrestraint and release, there, to appeal, obtain and retrieve.
The journey of self, to manipulate the curves, the pace, stride, and race,
Then, the ray, the beam and tray, twinkling, instants, and moments,
the birds, the fowls, ascenders, fly, to coast, and escape,
horizons expand, the eagles, eager, ready to wonder,
swing and turn, flap the wings, the air to let, the soar suspend.
Facing the gust, pushing drafts, a puff or blast, the breeze and burst,
slides and glides, drops or flops, riddles to rumble, ebbs are passing by,
they are reminders, mementoes, tokens, relics and remnants,
storms to play, to jest and tease,
rollers and surges, combers and rushes, angle and slanter.
Though, inclinations, dispositions, proclivities and penchants,
connections, correlations, the oneness, cohesion and coherence,
lucidity, rationality, and reasons, impel, goad, and endorse.
The lonely wonderer, the marveller and admirer, murals, frescoes,
abridgements, abbreviations, curtailments and contractions,
congeal and conceal, the essence of perpetuity, eternity and infinity,
the vibe, vitality, the verve and vigor, resound and echo,
the poses and miens, manners, demeanors, feelings to reveal.
Choruses and choirs, refrains, reprises, desist and abstain.
valleys plunder, pillages if insist, sun nudges surrenders,
the dales remain the solvents,
while, the mumbles, murmurs and mutters, the pitch and timbre,
perceive the pursuits, follow the marbles.
The bastion and turret, entice and lure, attract and cajole,
the corner is full, the feeling is mature, embark and invoke,
the knock to kindle, the whack to wonder, and portraits to ponder,
tentatively; curtains are hung to curtail, restraints blush the cautions,
fetters drop the hunters; the chains dilute the harbors.
When, have reached and expand, your soil and land, view, and the terrain,
the embracement, squeezes, and cuddles, the auras, strokes, and caress,
the bond, pledge and the oath; conjectures, inferences to surmise,
the winds, twists and breeze, conjure, summon and expose,
the songs, the tunes, and the chants, pursue the deeds, manners and feats,
your shade, the shield and fortune, kismet and faith, it is you.
Themes & Interpretations
The Dialectic of Constraint
Boundaries do not simply oppose liberty but create the conditions for meaningful movement. The “demarcations” of the title make possible the journey they seem to forbid.
The Aerial Passage
Eagles and ascenders represent consciousness breaking free from circumscription. Flight becomes the metaphor for transcendence through engagement rather than escape.
The Lonely Wonderer
The solitary figure who perceives murals and frescoes bridges the gap between isolation and communion, finding in contemplation the path toward connection.
The Other as Destination
The poem’s most profound claim: “it is you.” Human identity achieves its fullest expression not in solitary transcendence but in the recognition and embrace of the beloved.

