Glance and Gaze

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Glance and Gaze

Poet: Alireza Bemanian

January 15, 2026

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Glance and gaze, skim and scan,
glint and shine, chandeliers, pendants and lusters,
the light sweep and span, bright rays reveal and unveil.
the gems to reflect, stones and rocks to demur.

Devotions and pieties, do tend to sustain,
smear and slur, totter, stumble,
pillage, plunder, don’t spurn and taunt,
horizons are inert, to reach and alter.

Vistas are torpid, prospects are passive,
steer the fortune, the kismet and faith,
avert and direct, deter and bundle,
curious and alert, curtains do often fade—

Matches, contests and derbies,
stages, rostra, the podia, constantly revert.
fairs and fetes, relapse, and regress,
trends and tending, shall always fulfil.

The coops and cages, bolsters and columns,
the boosts and augments, know how to knock,
the wind and twine, ballet of the curves,
tap and smite, beat and strike.

The bars to reinforce, slabs to tolerate,
plops and pops, do splash off,
while, rods and poles, bolster and sustain,
rainbows peer and peep, tweeting secretive fame.

Regard and cleanse, purge and reflect,
then, respect and concede to voice within,
the judgements gather, conceive and commit.

Streams flow, creeks overwhelm,
brooks wallow and wade,
still, the breeze, ceaselessly susurrate,
the gales skirmish, drafts and swings,
mumbles and mutters;
though, the soaring birds, foretell the whispers.

Journey and voyage, outing and passage,
have wooed to rally, restored or carried,
carriage and wagon, only to be made,
Courage and valor, shall, pursue the valley.

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