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· The Beekeeper Review and Film Poem


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· Ode to Simone Biles

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· Remembering Gene Wilder

· On Being 93

· My Sister's Birthday Poem (85 Years)

· The Holdovers Film Poem

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Judy and Dorothy and Maud, Oh My!

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

My poem below about FINDING DOROTHY by Elizabeth Letts is dedicated to JoAnne Pulcino, my dear cousin.

Friday, May 3, 2019


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Judy and Dorothy and Maud, Oh My!

Maud’s husband died so long ago.

But now there’s something she must know.

She’s worried about hubby’s book

and how the Oz movie will look.

 

Her mission is to help make sure

“The Wizard of Oz” will be pure.

So off to MGM she goes.

Will she find villains or heroes?

 

“Finding Dorothy” follows Maud,

whose efforts we should all applaud.

It also deals with Maud’s past life

as L. Frank Baum’s devoted wife.

 

Well-written and hard to put down,

the story sometimes made me frown.

An avid Judy Garland fan,

I cringed at acts by one bad man.

 

How Maud helps Judy be Dorothy

makes this book a winner for me.

“Over the Rainbow” still rings true .

And L. Frank Baum would love it too.  



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Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on May 12, 2019

enjoyed the read



Never stop writing!

m

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 5, 2019
This fantasy… I have never read the book, Oz, set an historical precedent that Walt Disney picked up on that you can create a whole universe around a basic moral. And Maude, would probably have gone unnoticed in history without Elizabeth Letts writing Finding Dorothy.

You have such a wonderful way of being poetic about movies and books. I love it!

Ron

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on May 4, 2019
"Somewhere over the rainbow" "The grass is greener on the other side of the hill" There are many clichés for finding love, peace, and success. Henry David Thoreau said something that found a place in me many years ago. "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." Enjoyed your poetic review Betty Jo. Peace... rlc


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