The Old Time Monsters



The Old Time Monsters ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
June 29, 2023

Oh how I do love when those monsters appear
On my flat screen TV instilling such fear
I remember in my youth seeing Frankenstein
Chills slowly ascending up my chubby boy spine
Not to mention Lon Chaney morphing wolf man supreme
I sat with my brother and how I did SCREAM!!!
Then dressed in all black count Dracula would bite
I’d be shaking and crying-such vampiric delight!
Creature of the Black Lagoon in his swampy lair
Would raise up my fuzzy crew-cutted short hair
King Kong was the champ of his jungle domain
When first I did see him my brain went insane!
Godzilla the terror decimating the land
Never has a dinosaur been so frighteningly grand
But now as an adult I look back and do wonder
Do monsters really exist to ravage and plunder?
Sadly yes I must state, clearly so I do know
For I see human monsters in this world it is so,
They choose to berate
They relish in hate
They bully and attack-such a sad, sad fate!
You know who they are I need not explain
Please don’t be those monsters!
Allow your kindness to reign!

About this poem

Do monsters really exist today? My poem explores that notion.

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Written on June 29, 2023

Submitted by shulman.gary on June 29, 2023

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Scheme AXX BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKKGAG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,094
Words 214
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 24

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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