
Start the Glide
Dr. Alireza Bemanian • Odyssey, Volume 4, Chapter II
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Start the glide, soar the firmament,
sail the dream, the abundance, profusion,
and the, copiousness of the rays—
celebrate and commend, rejoice and revel.
Gleams and patinas, carousals and delights,
the shore is serene, breeze is tender,
and the shade stays unruffled,
composing to seek, combining thrills.
Sapphire and azure, cobalt or blue,
the smokes could raise, the fumes and burns,
tarnished, smudged, and smeared, surfaces and shells
hinder, wave, flutter or flap.
Though, impediments and obstructions, scatter and fling,
arrogance and conceit deter and bar, dooming the beams,
lurching grins and smiles, tottering saunters and strolls,
the froths and fizzes, decline and dissolve, to wane and vanish.
The sun intervenes, the winds intercede,
clouds do proceed, the shades heal the needs,
the time does approach, wonders, the clouds do cleanse,
surpass and exceed, the carved and etched, reveries and dreams.
Conventional discernments and faith,
while, the clouds were convincingly perceived,
block passages, pure lights and gleams,
tapers’ glimmerings, the glows; ironically, teeter flashes and sunbeams.
Though, sun, clouds, and winds,
Cohorts, collaborators, the partners,
the linked allies, pertinent legions,
shoulder to shoulder, and hands in hands—
spread the life, stretch the vows, convince and compose.
Droplets and rain, do ride the clouds,
not shy to insist, combination of routes, the courses and means,
insistent, tenacious, emerge and expose,
potions, infusions, vitality, verve, and vivacity,
pertain and contain, the sceneries, backdrops, and milieus;
finalities and resolves, do reject the phantom of flaws,
the orchestrations, symphonies, opuses and sonatas,
reveal and divulge, the tandem of pursuing thoughts,
spreaders and bringers, the secrets and messages,
embedded and fixed, only to pertain and relate,
to, your love, ardor, fervor and zeal.
Alireza Bemanian • January 21, 2026 • © www.bemanian.com
Themes & Interpretations
The Dynamics of Ascension
The poem is a manifesto of momentum. Unlike contemplative stasis, it demands We “Start the glide”—initiating the movement that allows us to master life’s currents.
Rehabilitating Obstacles
In a reversal of tradition, clouds and rain are not enemies but “Cohorts” and “partners.” What seems to block the light actually provides the “potions” needed for vitality.
Aerodynamic Morality
Ego and arrogance are depicted as clumsy drag (“lurching grins”), while humility and zeal create the smooth “glide” of the authentic soul.
Cosmic Symphony
The final resolution rejects the “phantom of flaws,” revealing that the entire universe orchestrates its secrets to reflect human “love, ardor, fervor and zeal.”

