Same Title Challenge - Chance

[wildsweetone]

in honour of Boo giving herself to help others, i thought i'd take the chance and post up another Same Title Challenge.

well, we can't have everyone just skiving off and thinking there's no work to be done, now can we? (it's a rhetorical question fly. )


so, the Challenge...

Chance

chance ( P ) Pronunciation Key (chns)
n.

1.
1. The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause.
2. A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck: Chance will determine the outcome.
2. The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability. Often used in the plural: Chances are good that you will win. Is there any chance of rain?
3. An accidental or unpredictable event.
4. A favorable set of circumstances; an opportunity: a chance to escape.
5. A risk or hazard; a gamble: took a chance that the ice would hold me.
6. Games. A raffle or lottery ticket.
7. Baseball. An opportunity to make a putout or an assist that counts as an error if unsuccessful.


adj.

Caused by or ascribable to chance; unexpected, random, or casual: a chance encounter; a chance result.


v. chanced, chanc·ing, chanc·es
v. intr.

To come about by chance; occur: It chanced that the train was late that day.


v. tr.

To take the risk or hazard of: not willing to chance it.


Phrasal Verb:
chance on or upon

To find or meet accidentally; happen upon: While in Paris we chanced on two old friends.


Idioms:
by chance

1. Without plan; accidentally: They met by chance on a plane.
2. Possibly; perchance: Is he, by chance, her brother?

on the off chance

In the slight hope or possibility.


[Middle English, unexpected event, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *cadentia, from Latin cadns, cadent- present participle of cadere, to fall, befall. See kad- in Indo-European Roots.]

Synonyms: chance, random, casual, haphazard, desultory
These adjectives apply to what is determined not by deliberation but by accident. Chance stresses lack of premeditation: a chance meeting with a friend. Random implies the absence of a specific pattern or objective: took a random guess. Casual often suggests an absence of due concern: a casual observation. Haphazard implies a carelessness or a willful leaving to chance: a haphazard plan of action. Desultory suggests a shifting about from one thing to another that reflects a lack of method: a desultory conversation. See also synonyms at happen See also synonyms at opportunity

Submission is to this thread on September 22nd.
Form: Any
Length: Any

Please state if you would like comments by other poets or not, ON YOUR POSTED POEM.


Anybody interested? Come on, sign up, you know you are!




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[wildsweetone]

17 views and nobody wants to take a chance?


was that a cluck i heard?

 

[tolyk]

I'll give it a shot.. no promises though, I'm not inspired like I was last time..

Ello WSO

 

[wildsweetone]

gidday tolyk!

not inspired? you're kidding right?

you've never taken a chance at any time in your life? you're not likely to in the future? think about it. there's plenty of inspiration, you just have to hunt it down.

(sorry son needs the pc for an assignment, gotta go)

 

[average gina]

17 views and nobody wants to take a chance?


was that a cluck i heard?

I'm feeling lucky... I'll see what I can do.

 

[tolyk]

gidday tolyk!

not inspired? you're kidding right?

you've never taken a chance at any time in your life? you're not likely to in the future? think about it. there's plenty of inspiration, you just have to hunt it down.

(sorry son needs the pc for an assignment, gotta go)

Not what I meant. Last time, the word Wasted wouldn't of done anything for me, had I not of had a really bad day before seeing it. I need to be in a certain mood before I can write poetry, even if it is bad poetry sometimes I can't force that mood, it just happens.. I call it inspiration, but it's not the traditional sense of the word.

 

[wildsweetone]

looks like it's you and me tolyk, everybody else is whimping out.

oh come on everyone, you know you want to share your work on the off-Chance you'll write something better than me.



heck it's not that hard.

 

[tolyk]

looks like it's you and me tolyk, everybody else is whimping out.

oh come on everyone, you know you want to share your work on the off-Chance you'll write something better than me.



heck it's not that hard.

Well, I'll get to writing something, or maybe multiple somethings, we'll see.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'm in, Wild, and the comments thing goes without saying.

 

[bluerains]

I luv that word

CHANCE...like FATE...Serendipity ,or life is in the CARDs....am sure I can find a bit of ink...to flow...

 

[BooMerengue]

in honour of Boo giving herself to help others, i thought i'd take the chance and post up another Same Title Challenge.

well, we can't have everyone just skiving off and thinking there's no work to be done, now can we? (it's a rhetorical question fly. )


so, the Challenge...

Chance


Submission is to this thread on September 22nd.
Form: Any
Length: Any

Please state if you would like comments by other poets or not, ON YOUR POSTED POEM.


Anybody interested? Come on, sign up, you know you are!




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I might give it a shot, if I find enough time. And y'all know I love the comments. But I can't promise I'll give them.

I really wish there hadn't been so much endless discussion on commenting. It has frozen me from giving any. Shame...

 

[wildsweetone]

Those taking a Chance:

wildsweetone (if i can dream up something )
tolyk
average gina
Lauren Hynde
bluerains
Boo (they not keeping you busy enough honey? )




anyone else? let your mind wander and i just know you'll come up with something. come on in and sign up.

 

[wildsweetone]

only a few days to go. i hope everyone's doing okay.

 

[wildsweetone]

well, only hours to go. i've managed to get my little bit into some semblance of order, now if i could just make it make sense.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'm several timezones behind you. Still have 26 hours! (phew!)

 

[Angeline]

Sorry WSO, but my poem

wanted to be on a page now.



Chance has blue eyes.
Elongated. He doesn't see
order. His logic
is marginalized, lost
in a rusted corner
of expectation.

He says he can't read. I watch
him pile syllables in mismatched
slurries of dejection, I watch
his lashes sweep toward the floor
as he sinks in the haven
of his chair.

Chance talks to the table,
not me because he needs to
be safe, so I hold the book
and the hope someone else
squandered

Chance but Fate
has thrown us together, our fingers
almost touching when I hand
him the cerulean crayon. He might
hear me when I tell him
how to spell sky.

 

[wildsweetone]

was going to put this up tomorrow but apparently it's the 22nd now lol

Chance

You are the glassed hour of time
the secret stealer that cuts
chaff, watching her inhale twisted longings

knowing one hit won’t suffice. She’ll beg
and you’ll be there, the tourniquet tightening
as that seductive needle slips
silently into her vein. Waiting

as thought clouds
and her mind floats above
shadowed webs
until she is yours.


(feel free to comment)

 

[Tzara]

Well, call me lazy, but I think an STC named Chance should live up to the name.

The following lets me not only be compositionally lazy but play with some of the ideas of one of my favorite poets, the late Jackson MacLow (1922-2004). MacLow was what one could only call an experimental poet.

OK....

So he was a nut. Or, more kindly, just an avant-gardiste. Concrete poetry, sound poetry (poems with no semantic content—just pure and mere sound), etc. etc.

I love this stuff.

One of his inventions, created under the influence of one of my intellectual überheroes, John Cage, was what he called "diastic" reading. As explained here, diastic reading "is an arbitrary but not random way of selecting words from one text to create a new text." It produces a text that is, in MacLow's words, "nonintentional... but deterministic."

Is it poetry? I think it can be, at least sometimes. It can sound gloriously well.

But, you decide.

The following is a truncated and slightly modified processing of WSO's dictionary definition of chance posted as part of her original challenge, run through the DIASTEXT program by Charles O. Hartman. I have mucked a bit with the punctuation (naughty me, violating the nonintentional principle) and trimmed the output considerably. The original output ran to 16 pages in Microsoft Word, which I thought might severely try the patience of even, well, me.

Read it out loud. Language is a lovely thing, even when it only sporadically makes sense.

And feel free to comment to your cranky little heart's content. Happy clueless Blip gives you permission.


Chance

Chances putout.
Phrasal or upon upon:
pronunciation element unexpected,
pronunciation accidental opportunity:
premeditation
pronunciation
Indo-European.
Key seems any chance chance random,
possibly;
not the chance:
one unknown and likelihood.
Chances random,
unknown accidental.
A an old unexpected in haphazard,
unpredictable element unpredictable possibility.

Specific conversation.

Unpredictable unpredictable unsuccessful.

Unpredictable element plural:
are from present meeting suggests implies one happen happenings
happening;
happen....
While present participle determined happenings adjectives
to what
chance meeting specific leaving one element seems to no happening;
rain?

Favorable games.

Not to accidentally is possibility.

Latin thing happen assignable ascribable participle carelessness chance:
haphazard cause.

Cause happening;
are favorable to error perchance:
present adjectives is absence.
Casual assumed foreseen chanced,
to come chance
was cause.

Cause happening;
event.

Event,
French,
shifting events that
chance
chances that chance rain?

Random,
chance
without slight befall.

See friend.

Took carelessness have foreseen
chance outcome.

Something or probability.

Chances good win.

That opportunity controlled.
Baseball.

Possibility.

Unexpected determined lack guess.

Lack luck:
chance the
chances chance chance escape.

Would ticket.

Willing
while desultory determined not stresses observation.

Determine something happening;
favorable to chance the or putout

Perchance
random,
determined stresses the chance:
one lack will likelihood something gamble,
shifting likelihood likelihood
Indo-European determined of of specific took something.
Often event.

French,
cadentia,
determined happenings have cause.

 

[My Erotic Tale]

Bows Humble (~_~)


Chance

Have you gambled with taking a chance?
Risking your neck
when you put both feet
into your leap

silver in silver
in cylinders
bored
to death
sweating bullets

banking on balance
and recovery skills...
Nil
but you do it anyway.

...taking a chance!

Putting your head in the noose
and hoping no one pulls the lever
or was it a mere flip of the coin
nothing important
when your last breath rides on a spinning quarter
and an itchy trigger

Is Russian roulette a gamble
or... chance?

 

[tolyk]

I'm not going to make it, sorry WSO

 

[wildsweetone]

no sweat tolyk. there'll be another STC in a couple of weeks.

 

[tolyk]

no sweat tolyk. there'll be another STC in a couple of weeks.

Sounds good I'm going to keep working on this, just won't meet the deadline.

 

[wildsweetone]

tzara: 'Well, call me lazy, but I think an STC named Chance should live up to the name.' - sorry, my pen had a mind of its own, so i took the chance and wrote what it wanted.


tolyk: cool bananas whenever you're ready.


anyone else going to share their poem?

 

[Tzara]

tzara: 'Well, call me lazy, but I think an STC named Chance should live up to the name.' - sorry, my pen had a mind of its own, so i took the chance and wrote what it wanted.

Don't be at all sorry, ma'am. There are many ways to look at chance.

Thanks for the challenge. It gave me a (um) chance to play with something I'm interested in.

An' that wuz fun.

G'day, NZ. (or is that just the Aussies that say that?)

 

[wildsweetone]

gidday is fine. in aussie it's 'gidday mate'