Extra Day
Extra day of the calendar
Breaks during the leap year;
Three hundred sixty-five dawns
Let additional morn appear.
A man or a person born
On the twenty-ninth of February
Is called a leaper or a leapling
Whose birthday is intercalary.
When non-leap years come,
Some leaplings do celebrate
On either the first of March
Or February twenty-eighth.
February twenty-ninth is a date
That occurs in four-year pace;
For the Earth does not orbit in precisely
Three hundred sixty-five days.
In the year two thousand twenty,
Whether the sky is blue or gray;
And if the world will still exist,
There'll be another extra day.
Copyright © Bernard F. Asuncion | Year Posted 2017
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