“The Wizard of Oz” is a wonderful allegory of “life’s journey” in search of love, wisdom, and confidence. We are all on “the yellow-brick road”of shared experiences, to self-realization. Frank Baum tried and failed at many endeavors. “The Wizard of Oz” movie was released twenty years after he died. The haiku reveals Frank Baum’s journey to his glorious destiny…literary immortality!

Things are not often what they appear to be. Follow the yellow brick road!

My poetic practice (from a poem of mine):

Sometimes you walk around the corner
and bump into the right word waiting there, smiling
to embrace your thought.
She's lovely in the shadows
and even more radiant on the page.

Once in a while, a strong emotion
wakens you from your slumber,
lifts you up and transports you
to where you've never been,
let's you molt your previous life
and breathe air so fresh
it has a taste.