Happenstance Poems

Once Upon A Happenstance

Once upon a happenstance,
she fell into a swift trance. 
This view felt ordinary,
that was what made it scary. 

Every flower was in bloom,
still you should never assume.
Spots of energy raging,
can you feel what it’s staging? 

With that sweet breath of magic,
nothing here could be tragic. 

Timeless beauty’s engaging,
the Fey have be-spelled aging. 
A wand touching a mushroom,
you hear its rhythm go vroom.

There is a weight to carry
to take in this scenery.
A victim of circumstance, 
once upon a happenstance.

Have You Ever? II

Have you ever paused to skim a stone,
Seeing the interplay of physics, frolic and force?
 
Have you ever driven to a place unknown, 
Meshing technology, wanderlust and law?

Have you ever danced with your own,
Moved by rhythm, play and gladness?

Has ever a moment’s passion shown
You your part in the infinite pool of being?

What string of happenstance brought you, alone
To here, this spot, reading this?

Whatever your answers, whatever their tone,
They matter not a jot!

What matters is that you have grown,
Feeling joy as part of the infinite intricacy;

Delight that the universal tapestry has been thus sewn.

Happenstance

What happens is a bifurcated
fork, with fate's twin prongs.
You can prick with it,
or can be pricked by it.
The choice is yours!
Is that happenstance,
a chance happening?
Or did you make
the chance happen?

Happenstance

Was it just a co-incidence?
How on earth did 'we' gained confidence?
Are you the wish that I've been waiting to come true?
Or the stardust in the form of you?

I fall a little more for you as each day passes by.
It doesn't matter what I go through if you're my ally.

You're my firefly; even in then hopeless night you keep on reminding me that there's still light.
I promise we'll go on holding hands throughout the days and the nights.
We're still young and free.
There are still many dazzling times we got to see.
The fate will have to surender infront of us.
'Cause we are a syzygy due to trust.

By Happenstance

By happenstance a glance may say
we humans saw the light of day
in universe’s vast expanse
to personate our song and dance
within a fleeting earthly stay.

At night black velvet sky array
stelliferous with appliqué
might seem to firmament enhance
by happenstance.

Yet ‘midst the starry overlay
concomitantly underway
cause and effect their course advance
encompassing in nexus trance
connections cosmic, not at play
by happenstance.


~ Harley White


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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…

A source of inspiration was the following…

Info and image ~ Hubble Views a Not-So-Lonely Galaxy…

Split Wide Open

Split Wide Open

The world of God’s miraculous,
 Imbedded deep with creation’s love,
Split wide open
With the lightning of grace
Fragile shells of human bondage
Cannot contain their foolishness,
Nor feathers in the whirlwind
Neither dandelion seeds
Of crystal puffs - dizzy imbedded joy -
Uncontrollable laughter explodes,
On paths of effervescence,
Yearns to burst through
Frozen crusts of icy shame
Freezing clods of unexplainable remorse,
Floods in the wilderness of unworthiness,
Little bits of serendipity,
Untamed marvels – let loose -
In mystical coincidence grow 
No fruitless plains,
No impotent fertility,
Wandering hearts harvest wonder
In seeds redeemed from Eden’s scandal, 
Shattered pieces of providence’ paradise,
A universe split wide open,
Plans and diagrams dissolve in astonishment 
When eternal compassion bewilders logarithms
Astounds in surprises to marvel
At the fertile unbound universe
When two weary unsuspecting paths 
Link outside astral planes
And touch the fingertip of brimming joy!

6-11-22
Contest:  This or That
Contest Title: Split Wide Open
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh

Happenstance

Under the spell of Autumn and twilight
we encounter a pair of deer 

their delicate forms 
in soft shades of grey
poised for flight
a still life

We linger, transfixed until instinct
overtakes, and they flee.

All we take is a memory.

A Love My Happenstance

~Present vow
Open now
 to be your only love 
Call in your trance
My happenstance~

5/10/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021

Happenstance

HAPPENSTANCE


   happy grasshopper jumping on grass: next moment swallowed by sparrow.


    01/25/21

What We Need Is Love

 Love is sharing a bowl of spaghetti 
Not just for some, but Tom, Dick or Harry.

Remember the night is made for romance
No turning one's back on happenstance.

Whilst the world's out of tune, love, shield, protect
Tomorrow's uncertain, hope for the best.

Share music, poetry, what're preferred art
By any means, if you are kept apart.

Love grows lovelier quenched by love's showers
Years seem like days and days seem like hours.

Now more than ever before, life - it's tough
Lockdown isn’t cushy, what we need is love.


(((( Lockdown 2 - England - day 1 - 5th November 2020 ))))

A Happenstance Dance

 
There once was a girl who thought she could dance,
but she seemed more like a girl in a trance;
when the dancers went swirling,
she was uncontrolled whirling;
her final grand leap was quite happenstance !

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August 28, 2020


Poetry/Limerick/A Happenstance Dance
Copyright Protected, ID 20-1281-927-03
All Rights Reserved, 2020, Constance La France


Written for the contest, Limerick Fun
sponsor, Tania Kitchin

Third Place

A Confluence of Happenstance

While sitting on our favorite bench,
Beneath a big black cloud,
A smattering of raindrops fell,
Dispersing all the crowd.

The cell phone rang; some friends of ours
Just happened to be near.
We told them where to find us
As the sky began to clear.

We shared our bench, the sun came out,
The river was a’gleam;
Such luck in these uncertain times
Felt strangely like a dream.

A confluence of happenstance
Allowed us all to meet
And after months apart, our time
Together sure was sweet.

Earthly Blues a Pure Happenstance

softening    the atmosphere
with
       extraordinary curiosity
a narrative

     fascination with the exotic
         significantly
passionate
expressive
eloquent
energetic
              improvision
   a harmony
             of continuity
smooth

    a pure happenstance

threaded the grain&texture
of
    emotion            exhaled

By Happenstance

By happenstance
I strode across
the boundaries of my being
and marveled at the beauty
and horror I was seeing.

By happenstance
I chose to stay
outside the boundaries of my self
bask within the joy and pain
of being there with someone else

By happenstance
I acquiesced
to let teared rivers flow
to irrigate a troubled heart
to see just what might grow

By happenstance
of weeds and chaff
foibles that hid my fear
I chose to let them grow awhile
for we had days to share

By happenstance
of boundaries fled
of footsteps following - that led
to being in the place I am
outside the boundaries of my head


John G. Lawless
©10/12/2019

The Happenstance

By happenstance, we lock our eyes
     as I see her on the winding stairs
        as whispers float around the room.
Well-known and beautiful, at that moment,
     her dark brown eyes are fixed on me.

The smell of roses is wafting through the air,
     and I take one, breathing in its scent-
          feeling flutters never known before.
My normal world appears so dark and dank
     compared to this space where I am now.

This powerful attraction- is it truth or folly?
     Perchance it is a dream- but as I daub
          my cheek with dewy petals of the rose,
I know for sure a dream it's not- for now
     she stands before me, our eyes still locked-

her hands accept my offered rose-
     and I feel Cupid's arrow bind our hearts.

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