To Live in a Yurt



To Live in a Yurt ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
June 2021

Out loud I shall blurt,
to live in a Yurt,
with that idea I would flirt,
while eating dessert,
so don't be so curt
at the idea of a yurt,
as a home for your skirt,
your pants and your shirt!

About this poem

A whimsical poem inspired by my niece's desire to live in a Yurt in the wilderness.

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Written on June 13, 2021

Submitted by shulman.gary on June 14, 2021

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme Axx bAbbbabb
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 240
Words 53
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 8

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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