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Dance Baby Dance

by Betty Jo Tucker — Read all 96 poems by Betty Jo Tucker

Because I am a former tap dancer, I loved the "Dance Baby Dance" independent film. It motivated me to write the short poem below.

Thursday, February 1, 2018


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Just tap tap tap that old time step.

Give it pizzazz and lots of pep!

Or shuffle off to Buffalo.

It feels so good if fast or slow.

 

Then shimmy with real style and grace.

Remember this is not a race.

Next do some wings like it’s a dare.

Feet a-flyin’, hands circling air.

 

Tap dancing chases blues away.

It helps you get through every day.

So tap tap tap as time goes by.

“Dance Baby Dance” will make you try.

(Released by Indie Rights/Winds of Hope. Not rated by MPAA.)

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Reviewed by Mystic Rose
Reviewed on April 30, 2018
Your poem has pizzazz and charm.

Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on February 7, 2018

I so enjoy reading your poems, or articles of reveiw!!

m

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 2, 2018
I danced along with you as I read. I must be getting hard of hearing or sight. As I read, my mind switched what you wrote and I thought you wrote or said, that you are a former lap dancer. ;-)

I keep encouraging a former girlfriend of mine to enter America's Got Talent. She still does shows for groups around town at 75. She both sings and dances Proud Mary, in a Tina Turner routine doing the shhimy that rivals Tina, herself.

Ron

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on February 2, 2018
I don't know, but I've been told, keep on dancin' and you'll never grow old.

Reviewed by Melva Henderson
Reviewed on February 1, 2018
A poem that gets our feet tapping, whether we tap dance or not.


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