Analysis of Life is Not Perfect



Life is Not Perfect ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
October 31, 2022

Life is not perfect
Newsflash dear friends!
My mantra each day
Until it all ends
Once you accept that
Strangely a calm
Will blanket your psyche
Like a well proven balm
Now nothing profound here
Just stating what is
Expecting perfection
Can prevent having bliss
So stumble through days
The best that you are able
Free your mind of perfection
And enjoy life’s bountiful table!


Scheme Axx Abxbxcxcxxdxxede
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 101011 010 11101 1011 11011 01111 11011 1001 110110 101101 110011 11011 010010 101101 11011 0111110 1111010 001110010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 439
Words 80
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 16
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 176
Words per stanza (avg) 39

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Learning to accept the imperfection of life will help you enjoy it more

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Written on October 31, 2022

Submitted by shulman.gary on October 31, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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