Happy Birthday to My Younger Brother



The Birth of My Younger Brother ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 23, 2023

It was the blizzard of 1960
A frigid bleak December day
Way back then in Canarsie Brooklyn
My pregnant mom did frantically say
Oh lord it’s coming the time is now!
To the hospital we must go!
All well and good and go they should
If not for the drifts of snow!
Dad grabbed my mom and off they darted
While howling winds did furiously blow
To the Volkswagen Bug they speedily flew
The engine started right up don’t you know!
Believe it or not in reverse he went
As he knew that would give it more traction
My mom must have been panic stricken
With a horrified reaction
But on that fateful horrific day
A day certainly like no other
Successfully to the hospital they arrived
Happy birthday to my younger brother!

About this poem

A true story about my younger bother's birth.

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Written on July 23, 2023

Submitted by shulman.gary on July 23, 2023

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Scheme AXX XBCBXDXDXDXDXCCCBAXA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 786
Words 154
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 20

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

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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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