To My Mother In Law, With Love



To My Mother In Law, With Love ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 2, 2021

How do we remember a person?  
What legacy do you leave?
Do people care about the outfits you wore?
Your meatloaf, that chicken that beef?
Will those left behind deeply ponder
About the lipstick that you wore?
Or how sparkly clean and sanitized
Was your spotless kitchen floor?

Well here is exactly what I think
My brain’s been on overdrive
Thinking and contemplating
I’ll share while you’re
Still very much alive

Friend to all, not a selfish cell
Always there to share your love
With neighbors, friends, and family alike
This gift you were given from above

Have a bagel you ask with love in your heart
Have a bagel…..More coffee too?
Not to worry, we all know very well
This is just part of you

You haven’t always had an easy ride
Life’s thrown you a curve or two
You’ve learned to take it all in stride
When you’re happy or when you’re blue

Mother, wife, neighbor and friend
Many hats you’ve had to wear
You’ve tackled life’s adversities
With very little fear

A warrior when you’ve had to be
A nurturer of course as well
A nurse, a banker the Calvary
The farmer in the dell!

Always there to love your children
Always there for your beloved spouse
Always there with an invitation
To enjoy your lovely house

So what will they all remember
What is your legacy true?
It’s all of this, and so much more
Your legacy is all of you!

About this poem

A love poem thanking my mother in law for being just who she is.

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Written on July 02, 2021

Submitted by shulman.gary on July 02, 2021

Modified on March 07, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXX BXCXDCXC XEXCE FAXA XGFG HGHG XXIX JFJF BIBI DGCG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,383
Words 261
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 3, 8, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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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