Ever so often, these days quite the norm I think, this is part of my life. Take, for example, this morning, while on exam duty for the Model Exams going on in school, this word popped into my head. That’s a pretty dangerous thing, jumping into my head, and that too, at moments when my head needed to be clear and all, watching pens scratching furiously on paper. Let me also admit that I had a sudden blanking out as to the exact meaning. 😀 Duh. That is a confession, coming from me, ain’t it? Go on, boo me a little. However, and this part is important, imagine how the meaning caught up with the words, and the words I had to write once it popped into me head. So there I was again, doodling words, while watching them kids 😀
This:
HAPPENSTANCE
An intriguing word, wouldn’t you say?
A word, perhaps to happen to pass by?
In pages full of fun,
Or maybe sore and grevious pain…
But there, then
Just then
Out pops that word
Taking mark
Holding stance
Happening to chance
Or chancing to happen?
Oh, whatever!
My eyes, they scour possibilities
And my childlike mind claps in glee!
What if I put a batsman’s gear
On Happen, and let him take stance?
Such glee! Such mirth spills out
At such a nonsensical thought 😛
Else, perhaps, there stands Happen
Netaji cap and all, muffler wound about thehead 😛
Taking a stance, and stands triumphant
Happen stands victorious, shout his fans, uproarious 😀
On a more curious note
Were it to populate
A modern day Alice in Wonderland?
No! No! Murder! Fire! would shout England!!!
Or maybe America
Yeah. Maybe. D’ya think? Sorta! 😛
However, whatever-
I must say, my morning’s brighter
Having chanced upon
The word Happenstance! 😛 😛
6 February, 2015.
Day#6 of Ramblings In February. I am so loving this nonsense.
Incidentally, I checked the word, and discovered what I have always believe in, there is no, NO, NO coincidence! 😀 😀
February 6, 2015 at 11:44 pm
*stands up and claps* A word that pops into your mind and there you are spouting verse, and what a verse too! Kejri’s muffler, Alice, England, America, they all find a place too 😀 😀 You should do this more often. 🙂
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February 6, 2015 at 11:46 pm
Awww… thank you so much Shail! I had such fun writing it, while invigilating – and a hard time keeping a straight face! Luckily one class had Maths, and another a Language paper 😛
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February 6, 2015 at 11:49 pm
Really, some of the best things come to us when we least expect it; and then if you hadn’t noted it down it could have vanished too. It does that a lot for me 😦
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February 6, 2015 at 11:50 pm
I know that only too well… Full many a write have I lost thataway!
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February 6, 2015 at 11:51 pm
In that case, *same pinch*
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February 6, 2015 at 11:54 pm
🙂
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February 7, 2015 at 6:02 am
Nice word and I like the beautiful explanation (s) for that! How we identify Kejri as soon as we read muffler clad man…! I am smiling while reading these words…you must have had the same expression while writing this! If any student had noticed, she must be wondering about it! I like the ‘American’ accent too!
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July 12, 2015 at 3:12 pm
Sandhya, a lot late in getting heer, I know but thank you for the visit and the words!
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February 7, 2015 at 3:29 pm
I read through this as if in a trance
how can you pick a word and make it dance
and with a simple verse, its beauty enhance
Will I be one day able to write like this, perchance?
Stunning verse and yeah isn’t it a coincidence that such thoughts hits you while you are in ‘class’ 🙂
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July 12, 2015 at 3:13 pm
Lol. Govind, I get that a lot 😀 The thoughts hitting in class. Minus quotes 🙂
Thank you for your kindnessess 🙂
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July 12, 2015 at 4:30 pm
That was quick 🙂
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July 12, 2015 at 4:33 pm
Errm… I presume you are being mildly ironic 😀
I’ve so many pending replies to make, and as Robert Frost went on his less travelled way, knowing that road leads on to road, so too, blog to blog, comment to comment, I shall, one hopes make it through the lot 🙂
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July 12, 2015 at 4:38 pm
Not at all. if you had read my comment on Shail’s status on FB you will know.
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July 12, 2015 at 4:45 pm
🙂 Oh. Which one of the many I wonder. The truth and lie wala?
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July 12, 2015 at 5:03 pm
Her status you d……………. 🙂
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July 12, 2015 at 5:11 pm
Duh… 😀
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July 14, 2015 at 3:06 pm
I meant dearest teacher. 🙂
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July 15, 2015 at 9:54 pm
Athe athe 😀
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February 8, 2015 at 10:51 am
As I read this, I thought I am always Happening to Stance. and Sometimes Stancing(as opposed to Dancing 😉 ) to Happen. That is such a fun play with words Usha 🙂
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July 12, 2015 at 3:14 pm
It is, isn’t it? Thank you Rashmee!
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February 8, 2015 at 3:42 pm
Going Awww at your child like glee in finding a word like that – magical Usha, right ?? 😀
Loving it all !!
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July 12, 2015 at 3:16 pm
Uma, indeed, when that child is me 😛
Thank you!
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March 3, 2015 at 11:55 am
‘Happenstance’ is this post’s word
And i don’t find it at all weird
That ‘pen’ too is in it
She does that pretty well, i’nnit
So there you are — two-in-one — and then a third!
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July 12, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Ahahahaha! Gulshan, you so adroitly turn that word so beautifully and pat me back with such a lovely compliment! Thank you!
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