Something About Parades



Something About Parades ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
August 23, 2021

As throngs of marchers pass me by
Proud minions of a cause
Some observers even cry!
I start to ponder this massive display
My brain somehow discomforted
And I am compelled to say
Pride is a rather unique strange fellow
It often prompts folks to proclaim and bellow
About one’s homeland, religion, sexuality
and shout out loud for all to see
So deeply proud it warrants a parade
Of things that were “givens”
Not choices that were made
It seems to me that pride should be
About choices you’ve made
In life, you see
Choices to be kind in all you strive for
Choices to be content and not just want more
Choices to love and turn your back on hate
Choices to lift up and not berate
Choices to leave this world a better place
Choices to embrace every race
Now don’t get me wrong, parades will continue
Marchers will march
Pride in every sinew
My point here is simple
not meant to degrade
Let’s march for good choices
In life we have made

About this poem

Celebrating the choices we have made in life rather than those things we were given.

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Written on August 23, 2021

Submitted on August 23, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XAX BXBCACDDEEFXFEFEGGHHIIJXJXFXF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 980
Words 186
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 29

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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