Short By Leaps And Bounds Poems

Jumping on a trampoline
Falling off could be quite mean!
Jumping up with leaps and bounds
Oh how fun that really sounds!...

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   Interlude from annoying talking heads ~
                                              ballet's leaps and bounds ahead
...

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YES... I believe they surely will
With progress man has made in recent years
The technology has moved ahead
To such a degree in leaps and bounds
Decades ago, only the far thinking man
Had not considered such advances
But now without a doubt it's our destiny...

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time moves in subtle leaps an bounds,
an older still is this old hound,
i write the tripe that comes to me,
from some smartass, surreptously,
not necessarily me,
but i am the channel medium,
found, who writes it down,
4 thee....

thank you Lizzie Treetop's, 

"mirror poem"

Don...

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Leaps and bounds from a former state,
Will it ever be enough?
Not now, for I still hesitate.
Swaying by the line, unable to move,
Your impatience impedes me,
Will my fears you disprove?
In the absence of hope I'm slowly drowning,
Here silently screaming, 
But the days you keep counting....

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Missing in leaps and bounds 
Freeness
Money can't buy
Word tree
Leaves falling
Giving space
No chase
Choosing the right passage
Forming a need passed
The flow saying
Block defeat 
Sprout the postive buds
Building new house
Windows open now
Freshness of movement returned

04/22/11 Spare Moment...

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popping and kicking
snarling with an insatiable rage
reveling in her destruction

she glows red
then fades into slivers of gray
smolderingly sneaky

her power not fully understood
she has started out small
but increases in leaps and bounds

the woods glows red
swept under her orange cloak
of destruction...

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Listen to poem:

lurking ghostly
come the mist
hope meanders
in darkness
of frail dreams


while in the gardens
sundrenched colors
sway my mind
in leaps and bounds
where frolic butterflies
in endless flowered fields

precious time frivolously spent
wisely in the playground of my mind



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on August 16, 2020...

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These obstacles are high
     the leaps and bounds exhausting
Yet your challenge is the bit I bite 
    to tear away your percieved control.

I am the force of will who knows no master.
    I am the beast to ravage all oppressors.

My muscles tremble my fervour grows
    And my freedom will over throw.
 
Let loose your reigns and see how high I soar....

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Children rise with sleepy eyes

While the moon and stars are yawning

Sunrise sounds with leaps and bounds

As another new day dawning

Watch them play all through the day

Till their energy expended

Mother's there with love and care

And her open arms extended

With dinner bells and bedtime tales

And no vigor left to borrow

The day is done neath setting sun

Children soon dream of tomorrow...

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I love the snow grandma said with feeling.
It makes me happy said her grandson, Greeling.
The more it fell, the happier they became.
Cocoa! Said grandma. Greeling yelped “Monopoly game!”

School was cancelled, so they stayed inside cozy and fine.
Park Place and Boardwalk gave grandma a really hard time.
Greeling was winning by giant leaps and bounds.
I hope the snow never stops! Said grandma, who owned two hounds....

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Summer sallies in blazing hot
Gentle in approach it is not
Chilly Spring winds soon forgot

Scorching sun off cooling soil steams
Warming all the rivers and streams
Melting core of soft snow dreams

Songbirds practice their choral sounds
Joined by grasshoppers’ leaps and bounds
Insects build their own playgrounds

Chirruping crickets call their mates
Flowerbeds fill with garden snakes
Sweltry nights no heat abates...

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Finding a oneness  in thyself 

Written By Dean Masciarelli

October 11, 2010 (10:41am)


Finding a oneness in thyself

So that my life can have
more meaning and purpose
and ultimately true self worth;

Has been challenging in itself

But through leaps and bounds
across this earth;
and simple acts of kindness

I have taken 
everything 
off of the shelf 

Because I have learned
how 
to smile; and reward myself...

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Now I somewhat know ? While when I was young..
Over this course be a few years, perhaps; the children ?
Dwelling amongst her grave stones; knocking, upon doors 
Beautiful girls finding their pictures ? Vomiting blood these years
Paved in red his tears; facing yet another day, My Soul ? Faith,
Did we belong ? Forging forth of leaps as bounds; a song she'll sing....
Better beyound then here amid, Babylon ? Time's stage be set; Angels await....

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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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She floats about on dancer toes
She spins and splits 
          and dips and flows
She glides and tips 
          She hops and lifts
She twirls and tucks 
          then stops and ducks
She moves around 
          in leaps and bounds
and flies aloft 
         (but comes back down)
It's true! 
         That Lindsay loves to please
She knows her art implicitly
For if you ask, 
          she needs not guess
Her pirouette 
          from arabesque!...

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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

Poetic form: Name...

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So much there that can be so pleasing,
even if it's backwater teasing
but who claimed life was a gas to enjoy
easy squezzy with every toy
when did the alarm sound to slow us down
easy does it say's the crowd
don't wanna miss the next go 'round
entertainment leaps 'n bounds
shiny brass in tooting form
skinned-topped bucket rolling norms
booted sassy short skirt screamers
make us all believin' dreamers

 easy does it,easy squezzy
just give me somethin' plenty pleasin'.......

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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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Life is not always what it seems.
 Crushing your hopes, smashing your dreams.

 Life is a cycle of ups and downs.
 You can recover in leaps and bounds.

 Life is what you make it your destined to reign.
 You can get through all the sorrow, the pain.

 If you feel you can't go on. 
 God is with you at each new dawn.

 So look for the sunshine, it's there in your sight. 
 You can see it with God as your light.

 Life's what you make it your destined to reign.
 Just let God take over the reins....

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