The "Circle" of Life...Really?



The “Circle” of Life…..Really?
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 11, 2023

The circle of life is often what “they” say
Well, who are those pundits anyway?
It seems that circle takes rocky rotations
Unexpected turmoil causing brain cell gyrations
One day you’re healthy, blithely strolling along
The next day the ER with the ill-fated throng
Good folks who deserve neither pain nor grief
Nobody’s immune to that life draining thief
Well that “circle of life” seems to me a misnomer
Roller-coaster’s more like it, you don’t need a diploma
To realize that life springs surprises ad infinitum  
Try as you might there’s no way you can fight them
So what is the point of this verbiage I display
It’s to live your life with gusto as if it’s your very last day!

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Life is more like a roller coaster than "circle".

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Submitted by shulman.gary on July 11, 2023

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Scheme XXX AABBCCDDXXEEAA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 775
Words 138
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 14

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

 · 1950

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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