Family of the Heart



Family of the Heart ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 10, 2023

In a world of dreams and fantasy
All blood ties have your back
But life sometimes throws you curveballs
That ideal world can easily crack
Once expectations of who you should be
All shatter and begin to crumble
Sad to say love can be tossed away
You tailspin, then fall and tumble
But then it happens I guarantee
Once again that family tree
Grows branches of love from those who know
Exactly who you were meant to be
A new family is born of those who care
For the one and only genuine you
For love is love is love is love
Your caring new family will tell you that’s true!

About this poem

Sometimes you must create the family in your life.

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Written on July 10, 2023

Submitted by shulman.gary on July 10, 2023

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Scheme XXX ABABACXCAAXAXDXD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 632
Words 125
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 16

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed. has spent a lifetime supporting vulnerable families and children. He began his career working with children with and without disabilities in an inclusive Head Start program in Brooklyn NY. He then transitioned to become the Special Needs and Early Childhood Coordinator for the Brooklyn Children's Museum for 10 years. His passion for advocacy grew as he worked more and more with parents of children with disabilities. For over 24 years he passionately advocated for the needs of these parents as the Social Services and Training Director for Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. in NYC. The last 8 years of his working life, Mr. Shulman served as a private Special Needs Consultant conducting hundreds of training sessions throughout NYC and beyond to help parents and professionals find and access the services and systems required to facilitate maximizing the potential of their children with disabilities. Now Mr. Shulman is happily retired in Palm Springs CA, but still volunteers his time any way he can to provide information to those in need of his expertise. Today, Gary enjoys sharing his poetry that he passionately writes with the goal of leaving this world a better place one word at a time. more…

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  • luisestable1
    This poem is not altogether in its thought. The first two lines could have led to a different world. Dream and fantasy do not have to be always positive or desirable. Dreams can be madding and fantasy can be wild and in that world the outcome would be otherwise
    There are lines that could be modified a bit to make the result clearer or have unity. 
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