Well Grounded From Back in the Day
Well Grounded From Back in the Day ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 7, 2023
A Mahjong game gathering
At our Brooklyn home tonight
Brings Blackout Cake remnants
For a chubby boy’s delight!
Our daily sanctuary
The streets we’d all embrace
We never feared what dangers lurked
In that warm and loving space
Second generation parents
Just struggling to survive
Never sharing stress with children
For tranquility they would always strive
Each day a new adventure
Possibilities supreme
Our parents greatest joy in life
Was to see their children dream
Dream of better days ahead
Lives devoid of doubt
But grounded profoundly in self-esteem
“I know that I can do it!!” We’d always proudly shout
Those halcyon days, Brooklyn childhood days
I carry in my vintage soul
They help me to know that survive I can
Memories help to make you feel whole
Well seasoned in life I joyously remain
Perambulating my time away
Still wondering, rejoicing and creating
Happy to awake another day
Always recalling and blessing the roots of my life
When foundations were firmly laid
This well worn soul can proudly extol
A life still so proudly well played
About this poem
What we learned in childhood, if the quality was there, keeps us grounded in life.
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Written on July 07, 2023
Submitted by shulman.gary on July 07, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,147 |
Words | 209 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 32 |
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