Destiny, Faith, and Fortune

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Destiny, Faith, and Fortune

Poet: Dr. Alireza Bemanian

January 26, 2026

© www.bemanian.com

باز دارش دیده از جورِ جفایِ طالعِ سرگشتهِ مفروضِ عین

Dr. Alireza Bemanian — epigraph  |  © Alireza Bemanian / بمانیان

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, turns, twists, and bows,
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 cease.

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, pardons; or to heal.

Walls not to get colossal, lofty, farfetched and congealed,
obscurity, oblivion, opacity not to prevail,
manners and deeds to flow and drift, emanate and impart; not to hinder and hamper,
hitches, tethers, thwarts and shackles, incumber and impede,
streams’ grasp, scope and seize; the tides’ shapes, 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,
the bits and pieces, smidgens, tads, and jiffies and moments,
reverberate, resonate, ring and bond.

Brainteasers, puzzles, riddles and posers, simmer and smolder, bubble and rumble,
the strainers and sieves perpetuate, propagate, and disseminate,
essences and cores, the spirits and apparitions, tiptoe and tread,
courage, the mettles of depictions, selections, and assortments, revivify and restore,
guarding for the medley and miscellany, pastiches and parodies, not to touch or impact,
but, merely to 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.

Alireza Bemanian  •  January 26, 2026  •  © www.bemanian.com

Stanza Analysis

Themes & Interpretations

Fate as Architecture

Destiny, fate, and fortune are not decrees but navigable structures — corridors, mazes, and permeable borders. The poem refuses fatalism, mapping a pluralistic metaphysical terrain where cosmic forces and human agency coexist in perpetual, dynamic negotiation.

The Grammar of Revision

“Deductions alter, adjustments revise, and amendments bundle” — the poem’s philosophical signature declares that truth is constructed iteratively, not received wholesale. Understanding accumulates through continuous refinement, enacting the very philosophy it describes.

Water and Fire: Dual Agency

The river that “turns, twists, and bows” models adaptive persistence — navigating without capitulating. The flame that “conjures, raises, and tricks” offers transformation. Together they define two irreducible and complementary modes of human action against cosmic resistance.

Signal Against the Storm

Carillons that “do not halt and cease,” messages that “shall not befit gales’ deceased” — in an indifferent universe, the act of sending signals is itself an act of defiance. Human communication is constitutionally incompatible with annihilation; it outlasts the storms that would silence it.

The Squirrel’s Wisdom

Against eagles and lions, the poem’s closing figure is the squirrel — small, persistent, gathering against winter, plundering upstream. It embodies the poem’s deepest claim: meaning accumulates not in grand gestures but in arduous, incremental striving that transforms the very land it traverses.

Destiny, Faith, and Fortune

Odyssey  —  Dr. Alireza Bemanian

January 26, 2026  •  © www.bemanian.com