
Destiny, Faith, and Fortune
Poet: Dr. Alireza Bemanian
|January 26, 2026
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Destiny, fate, fortune; ventures, endeavors, and abilities,
interactions, interfaces, exchanges, borders. Boundaries, and misfortunes,
linger and twinkle, glint and gleam, postulations, hypotheses, and notions,
deductions alter, adjustments revise, and amendments bundle.
The verve, zing and brio, rivers, turn, twist, and bow,
vigor and vitality, buttress, prop, and bolster —
serenity, tranquility, and harmony, composure, poise, and calmness,
pertain, relate, and shape, flame, blaze, and fire conjure, raise, and trick.
Graces, deportments, poises and composures, sprout, prevail, and abound,
bells and chimes, the sounds of rings; carillons do not halt and cease,
messages, dispatches, notes and tones, shall not befit gales’ deceased,
reserves, reticence, restraints, harbingers, heralds do not rest.
Challenges, encounters, contests pace, the sheep should have never laid,
tracks, routes, passages, excursions, ventures, and the jaunts,
mazes, warrens, the networks, snarl, growl, and scowl,
barely to ones who conceal, not sound to see, pardon or heal.
Walls if get colossal, lofty, farfetched and congealed,
obscurity, oblivion, opacity hinder and hamper manners and deeds,
hitches, tethers, thwart and shackle, incumber and impede,
streams grasp, scope and seize, flows shape fit, curvatures and seals.
Mazes encounter, dwell, and persist, the paves and covers, moving to persist,
while, tenacity, obstinacy, and resolve, remain blatant, flagrant, and revealed,
instances, demands, requests and insistencies, initiate and impel, goad, and exhort,
while, the bits and pieces, smidgens and tads, and jiffies and moments,
reverberate and resonate, ring and bond.
Brainteasers, puzzles, riddles and posers, simmer and smolder, bubble and rumble,
while, the strainers and sieves perpetuate, propagate, and disseminate, the essence and core,
the spirit and apparition, and courage and mettles of depictions, selections, and assortments,
the medley and miscellany, or, pastiches and parodies, touch, impact, shake and fade.
Pavements and covers, the rainy days and storms, squalls and flareups, eruptions
and outbreaks, promptly and viciously, revive, renew, and restart,
while, the spates, plagues, and bursts, intend and endeavor,
struggle and exert, to impose and open, the footholds, tractions, and grips of their own.
Squirrels plunder, upstream, the arduous and burdensome wanders,
One is to fit the urges, second sheers the marvels, both do atone surrenders,
occurrences, rationales, the bases. the iron, the feast and buffets,
settings, locales, and the sites, shall change the land of wonders.
Themes & Interpretations
The Architecture of Fate
Destiny, fate, and fortune are not decrees but structures to be navigated — corridors and exits within a cosmic architecture that demands traversal rather than submission.
The River’s Philosophy
Rivers that “turn, twist, and bow” embody adaptive persistence — not fighting obstacles but flowing around them while maintaining essential direction toward meaning.
The Labyrinth of Life
Mazes, warrens, and networks that “snarl, growl, and scowl” — life’s complexity as terrain requiring clear sight, the capacity for forgiveness, and persistent navigation.
The Squirrel’s Wisdom
The small creature plundering upstream represents practical wisdom — persistence and preparation that transforms the land of wonders through humble, determined action.

