Best Leap Year Poems
Leap year babes party every fourth year
When their birthday arrives they can cheer
But on a positive note
It would surely get MY vote
Getting old is something they won’t fear!
15th September 2016
January slips into the past
As shorter month takes stage to play her part.
Blithely unaware of pain she brings,
Ignoring once again my frozen heart.
He had been looking forward to the spring,
Welcoming its coming with delight.
Jealous of his eagerness for March,
February took him with her in her flight.
I count the days that pass and fear the rest,
Doing my best to speed them on their way.
Furious with me for wishing her demise,
This year she's taunting me with one more day..
By: Joyce Johnson
Boss, being as this is leap year
and Feb 29th is an extra day
do I have to work tomorrow?
tomorrow being an EXTRA day
He says, take your appeal
to the big man upstairs
he invented 365 days
and these pesty leap years
With all due respect, I reply
I thought it was the Greek culture
Not the the big man upstairs
that invented "time" as we know it
(I didn't REALLY say that, I just thought it)
BUT, I say, it's an EXTRA day
kinda like SATURDAY?
do you expect me to work
SATURDAY?
So he says, look at it this way
most months are 30 or 31 days long
so really, you are working a short month
only 29 days long
I have to admit
this crap makes sense
so I give up my appeal
concerned that I might
if I don't keep quiet
end up owing money in the deal
The newest Leap Year beckons women to make a heartfelt move
while promising to be true to the soul and actions
I have knelt down because it's time that I propose to you,
even impromptu, promising to say "I do" with Celtic words: Aoibhneas, Baile.
I love you for your distinct virtues. Please, do not misconstrue this vow that I now renew.
You're likely to be amazed by such words of praise coming from me
But you should know that I love you verily; I've reappraised the situation,
And I'm all aglow when I think of the stargazed dream
Such a marriage could set us free and raise our expectations, we who are Vikings!
If I don't take the chance to propose during our dance, four years will pass again with less romance; thus, it's best I write these words of confession to you with my own pen rather than to keep them suppressed, all the while,
Promising that my vow will be acknowledged by God above who blesses our love, still expressed while un-professed
My mind reaches out to you, boundlessly and timelessly, no matter what you say or do, thereunto, without any borders to keep my love away; I invite your imagination to fly with thoughts of the magnificent adulation and how I'll reveal my heart to you, going on a mountain rendezvous, with vegetables overgrown in your garden where they thrived,
Undervalued for such a long time while nature embraced you in a breakthrough,
Growth arose with the sound of bells nearby--chiming, dancing, and chanting in rhythm, the mountains, all the time, dipping into the valley to meet you in peace.
This year will be Leap Year, it's true, and all I want to do
Is marry you. No more, no less, only to achieve heartfelt happiness.
I'll view you through the misconstrued residue of my own true love.
An unusual Bus of 366 tires
one of its twelve compartments
is one more than normal
It's another new uncommon day
A day that comes just once in every four yrs
I'm happy I'm alive to see today
God I'm most grateful
Facebook won't be able to bring up this memory until the next for years
I won't be able to check the memory from this fone then, cos I'd av changed it
More grey hairs, new look,
Wife and children hopefully
More friends, some betrayals
Plenty success and achievements
Better fones, better life
Older ( but younger in mind and wiser
Wishing my brother success in his exam
I love my mother, love my father
Love my brothers , love my family
My special love to Oloye Adeyinka Olufunmi. Waiting for your man.
My apologies to Tosin Oloye, forgive me.
I love and respect my BBL alwaz and ever
I love myself, love my life
Love and respect my friends
God bless NOSDRA zones and HQ
Love my colleagues, God bless u all
Till 2020, LOVE YOU ALL
a riddle in verse
What is the number of years
Israel roamed the wilderness
if we divide it by ten?
What is the number of ears
on a frog duo warbling so loudly
your head is starting to spin?
What is the number of gears
on an average-size semitruck
minus half of a dozen?
What is the number of beers
found in a guzzler’s six pack
if two of them are missin’?
Riddled number whether in Rome or right here
tells us how often we celebrate Leap Year.
The Gregorian calendar makes it quite clear.
Pope Gregory XIII made ten days disappear.
February 10, 2020
Juliet Ligon's contest: What's in a Number?
february ends
frisky squirrels living fast
amidst the first blooms
Leap Year's "poll" vault
Olympic primary trials
Push-over leaps by party default
others limp away with denials.
Sis boom bah; blah, blah, blah,
"poll'-itics and the media.
LEAP YEAR
Jumping a day in February on every fourth year
three hundred sixty-six days appear
in a leap year, no error, clean clear,
welcoming Olympic.
02/10/20
Fourth Place
' 'Great Leap Forward Contest by Beth Evans
Thursday, December 31, 2020 signals conclusion of latest leap year
Whether alphabetized, digitized,
homogenized, marginalized, satirized... place names
from "A" to Zaire
Thursday, December 31, 2020
signals conclusion of latest leap year.
The Pacific island of Tonga first
to ring in New Year 2021
glad tidings dispersed
celebrated at 10 AM GMT December 31 -
making tiny island nation
first to head into a fresh year.
Second to last
will be American Samoa 11AM –
just 558 miles from Tonga,
where locals and visitors
celebrate a full 25 hours before.
Earth's orbit around the Sun (year)
and rotation on its axis (day) where
latter not perfectly in line there
by necessitating
smooth functioning of Gregorian calendar
(also called New Style Calendar)
which did premiere
fifteen eighty two courtesy king's spear.
Ever since 1752, whence
in the modern sense
the first leap year implemented
madding crowds reportedly rioted
most likely uttering expletive
than "what nonsense"
reportedly riots erupted
courtesy chaos did arrange,
when England made the change
spurring some citizens
demanding immediate compensatory exchange
they get their 11 days back home on their range
from the government haint so strange.
To determine whether a year is a leap year,
follow these steps without Fanfare
For The Common Man
the famous title of Aaron Copeland air:
1. If the year is evenly divisible by 4,
go to step 2. Otherwise, go to step 5.
2. If the year is evenly divisible by 100,
go to step 3. Otherwise, go to step 4.
3. If the year is evenly divisible by 400,
go to step 4. Otherwise, go to step 5.
4. The year is a leap year (it has 366 days).
5. The year is not a leap year (it has 365 days)
Doors of hope open, walls are falling
A new beginning, a new calling
The transition is over, you are in a new field
A new leap year is granted
In this new firing range
New targets may seem strange
But fear not, you'll hit every one
For every challenge will be shot down
Don't ponder and panic, be still and know
Let your doubts and fears go
Still your emotions and thoughts
For you will not be suddenly caught
Know with your every fiber
You are meant to be a hero, a victor
In perfect timing, you have arrived
Despite your struggles, you have thrived
Unlock what needs to be
Let it pour onto your lap, for you are free
As sure as light shifts into darkness
You will shine, you will have access!
It is like that of a leaping rabbit who hop on all four,
Twenty-twenty, would then leap an added four more,
Leap at each fourth year, a day February would score,
As for a century leaps at every four hundred years.
2020 January 19
Great Leap Forward Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Beth Evans
How can you mend a Broken Heart ?
How much time and heartbreak hurt will it take ?
To Love Again ?
And is Love worth it ?
Or is it Just ?
4 Season's on any given
Leap Year Sunday
Before Blue Bank Holiday Monday
With nobody to snuggle up
Or spend with
Truth wears a face as grace brings light,
Hope flings a trace with space for sight;
Ink stains now style fond smiles in place,
Sense feel worthwhile that piles brisk pace.
Live thus true fest with zest that glows,
Etch touch of jest as quest frames grand show;
Ask for due grace to ace fine feel,
Prize time and space to face what thrills.
Yield that bold poise where choice firms gain,
End with stern voice to hoist heart’s strain;
Apt that clear art that darts with ease,
Reach each crisp part as start greets peace.
Taste that full flair as air shows best,
Watch how joy pairs most fair swift fest;
Embrace this sea to be fond urge,
Note soul set free that sees warm surge;
Thoughts rise and fall with call you brave,
Yes bear due gall and all ere grave.
Trust love not late to date due charm,
Worth floods your plate with fate that arms;
Endow your space dear face with joy,
Niche love’s fine trace in place sans ploy;
Toil with deep peace as ease moves touch,
You know the lease as tease knows much.
Enter fond feel that heals brisk flair,
Now and here thrill good will heart airs;
Dance with the dream as streams greet light,
Opt glimpse of theme as beams forge flight;
Wit mellows cheer as clear mood flings,
Sighs thus endear sans fear’s pulse string.
Love and light flow in glow that sums,
Observe the show that knows outcome;
Vouch certain poise as voice now speaks,
Exact due choice as grace signs peak.
Leon Enriquez
29 February 2020
Singapore