Short By Leaps And Bounds Poems

     When ’43’ comes around
         take it by leaps and bounds

      Don’t hide from it underground
         ~ every night, out on the town
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They deployed the force and unleashed the hounds

Yet their troubles grew by leaps and bounds

Through the chase I stayed unseen

Slipped through the cracks and stayed clean

Now I’m a shadow no one surrounds
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marvels of science
by leaps and bounds
yet no cure for cancer
or for basic problems
of poverty, starvation
and injustice

seriously !
do we expect we would
do notably better 
at a colony on Mars?


AP: Honorable Mention 2025...

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Lord only knows how the settlers survived
When in Arizona's desert they arrived

I visited there in late November
And the piercing heat I still remember

Air conditioning's great invention
Brought to this state renewed attention

The population grew by leaps and bounds
Many homes were built on the sandy mounds

"There's no humidity," some still will say
Yet none survive without AC each day



(AC stands for air conditioning)...

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Stephen

Stephen is my youngest grandson, so far.
Terrific little newborn that sleeps well
Even though he is the youngest, Stephen (III) in the family, he gets the “Big Name”! 
Practically perfect in every way… (As Mary Poppins might say!)  Oh, He is perfect.
He is growing bigger and stronger by leaps and bounds. 
Everyday he brings happiness to the family.
Now, we are watching him grow into his personality.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 1, 2010

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Bad news likes to travel fast,
Much quicker than the good
And you can’t stop it even if
You pause to knock on wood.

It’s like a snowball, growing as
It barrels down a hill,
Unstoppable and uncontrolled
As oil from a spill.

Through phone or text or face to face
The knowledge makes its rounds,
For once the news is negative
It spreads by leaps and bounds.

Technology can’t take the rap
For even in the past,
When something bad took place, that news
Would always travel fast....

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