Clouds Above Me



Clouds Above Me ©
(An Ode to the Clouds of Arlington)
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
August 26, 2022

Layer cake configurations
Amorphous critters galore
Can transport my whole demeanor
And make my spirit soar
Before the storm reveals its majesty
They gather to conceive their plan
Shall tonight be smooth and tranquil
Or shall the you know what
Hit the proverbial fan!
As I watch the morphing cotton-candy sky
Turn more foreboding dark and obscure
One thing is obviously certain
Of nothing I am sure
Will clouds on high be gentle tonight
And paint a calming palette
Or will they cry and sob supreme
Rain pounding like a mallet
Do your worst or do your best
Grand nebulous clouds on high
Sing your thunderous bellowing song
Your fire-bolts scorching the sky
For nature’s blanket of beautiful clouds
Remind us of simple grace
And let us know how blessed we are
To inhabit this glorious place

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A celebration of Arlington's beautiful clouds

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Written on August 26, 2022

Submitted by shulman.gary on August 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABXX XCXCADXEDFGBGXEXXXFXFXHXH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 895
Words 168
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 25

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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