Between Darkness and Light poeticizes struggles for good and evil, shining a light in dark places and then reflecting the light of goodness. The range of poems is from darkly serious, "Coal Eyes," to light and entertaining, "How to Hit upon a Girl. The poems are from the heart of a soldier, statesman, singer, and scholar. The poems cover four decades of the author's life and are his complete collection.
This book is about the author's testimony to his diverse experiences both in growing to manhood and then becoming a Military Intelligence Officer and analyzing Soviet/Russian military and foreign policy.
American Heritage contains a comprehensive collection of the best poetry previously published in three volumes, Beyond Darkness and Light, Guardian Angel and American Heartland Poetry. Roy Peterson is the quintessential poetry and prose author hearkening back to the great poets in the Pantheon that is the American Heritage of Poetry. Compare his works to Wordsworth, Longfellow, Poe, and Frost for subject variety, style variations, and readable yet complex thought integration making him the poet of and for everyone.
Guardian Angel is a kaleidoscope of vivid poetic imagery and begins with "To all the angels I have known and some I never knew a thousand pardons for the stress I must have put you through." Guardian Angels protect the good from bad consequences. LTC Roy Peterson is the embodiment of the renaissance soldier, statesman, and literary gentleman and harkens back to the likes of Poe and Longfellow, but with the romantic urges of Hemingway and Lord Byron.
American Heartland flows from the Midwestern childhood of the author who learned the values of loyalty, bravery, and honesty with love for God and country. LTC Peterson's poetry is a unique portrayal of those values, as a substantive down to earth word painting, but with a transcending perspective, yet substantive down to earth painting with words everyone can unequalled by modern poets. His down to earth prose combined with his acumen, wit, and wisdom is comparable to Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanac. Like Longfellow he portrays a nostalgic past and like Poe, Roy's mystic moments in Fall Fantasy are seductive. Two sections of humor, however, set him apart as a poet for the ages.
Fight of the Phoenix is a historical personal account of duties as an Advisor in the Delta of Vietnam in 1972. The author counters claims of other Advisors and Academics and sets the record straight on the vicious nature of the Communist insurgency that killed their own people and the spectacular success of the Phoenix Program throughout the country and especially in the Delta Region MR-4 in targeting and neutralizing the enemy Viet Cong insurgents.
Russian Romance continues the Dane Nelson series from the Book Iron Ikon and describes the difficulties and obstacles of opening the first IBM Office in Vladivostok, Russia. The Romance part was due to a divorce suffered by Dane and subsequent interest of Russian women in anyone from the forbidden United States.
Gathering the Golden Poetry is like putting my poem harvest into a storage silo back on my youthful days spent on a farm in Pleasant Valley Township, Gregory County, South Dakota. Those nostalgic golden days of yesteryear shaped my cultural values, cultivated a sense of perspective and proportion, taught me to conserve everything from the earth to the limited food and goods we had as a struggling farm family, and enriched my soul with prayers before each meal. I learned to drive the old Case tractor at the age of six so my dad could use a pitchfork to fill the wagon behind me. My life was filled with family love, exciting things to see and do, creatively making my own toys and playtime scenarios as an only child, and reading the dictionary in the winter months in the evening by the flickering kerosene lamp. Since we did not have electricity on our farm until 1954, I remember the thrill of listening to radio programs and imagining the world beyond the farm.I am a member of the Society of Classical Poets, an organization dedicated to the renaissance of poetry with rhyme and meter. This volume brings my self-published total of poems to 2,400 with the broadest array of subjects from innate humor to comical tales, from love and romance to sensitivity to feelings, from patriotic to religious, from social and political critique to pointed remonstrances and measures for reform of a country and society going astray.Since I have the ability to write at all levels and classes of society, you will find poems appropriate for those considerations, a treasure trove of varied opinions and advice, and subtle messages that include double and triple entendrés. Word use constitutes the value in this gathering of my golden harvest.
I have a wide range of interests from bubbling humor and blistering satire to serious critiques of politics and society. First and foremost, though, are my usual twenty or more classical poems of love and romance including what have been judged superb love sonnets. "Every Heart Gets Lonely" is my 71st book of poetry and 94th book of various genre. There are one hundred (100) classical poems of love and romance, wit and wisdom, humor and comedy, advice and dissent, patriotism and criticism, inspiration, history and mystery. One section is devoted to Russian invasion of Ukraine and another to St. Patrick's Day. Thirty-five (35) of my poems have been published by the prestigious Society of Classical Poets of which I am a member. You may read them all by going to their website, clicking on the Member button, clicking on my name and it will take you there. With publication I will have published 4,513 poems. Personally, I am an Award-Winning Singer and retired LTC, US Army, Military Intelligence and Russian Foreign Area Officer. I was the first US Foreign Commercial Officer in the Russian Far East and IBM Regional Manager in the same location. As one of the most educated men in America with 200 post-graduate hours and 3 Master's Degrees. I make no apologies for my logic and views on any subject you wish to name unless it is esoteric science.
If you have not read one of my books of classical poetry, you will discover I have a wide range of interests from bubbling and bizarre humor to serious critiques of politics and society. First and foremost, though, are my usual twenty or more classical poems of love and romance including what have been judged superb love sonnets. "Destiny Awaits Me" is my 68th book of poetry and 90th book of various genre. There are one hundred (100) classical poems of love and romance, wit and wisdom, humor and comedy, advice and dissent, patriotism and criticism, inspiration and perspication, history and mystery. Twenty-five (25) of my poems have been published by the prestigious Society of Classical Poets of which I am a member. You may read them all by going to their website, clicking on the Member button, clicking on my name and it will take you there. The cover credit is "The Valkyrie's Vigil" by Edward Robert Hughes, 1854-1914. Personally I am an Award Winning Singer and retired LTC, US Army, Military Intelligence and Russian Foreign Area Officer. I was the first US Foreign Commercial Officer in the Russian Far East and IBM Regional Manager in the same location. As one of the most educated men in America, I make no apologies for my logic and views on any subject you wish to name unless it is esoteric science.
Classical poetry is a passion and an art that freezes thoughts in time for viewing in the future. The beauty of an allegorical allusion brings life and laughter into alignment with inspiring words that rhyme. Painting portraits that describe feelings perpetuates in the memory images of fantasy and romance. Reading them over and over leads to discovery of clues the poet left like footprints that are discovered where none have gone before. Join me in this world of timeless circumstance where the magician is the poet who deftly pulls off a trick while creating an illusion. Four new Love Sonnets in Shakespearean format are a perfect match in rhyme and meter to his classics. You be the judge of how closely they approach the master in depth of thought. The poem of Boudica is of the greatest warrior queen from the past who almost succeeded in running the Romans out of the British Isles. The Playtime Section is filled with ten humorous poems with groundhogs, cats, aand biscuits with sausage gravy among the subjects. Social media critique includes hit and run clickers and posters without hosters. Even the serious section is light hearted with poems about Sean the Gian Lepruchuan and the Seven Dwarves of Old Age. A new Texas tale is told of how Paul Bunyan met Pecos Bill and why his cow turned blue. Then I present how precious are your thoughts, the naked truth and when poets write what do they mean."Always Means Forever" removes the dimension of time with clever concepts that stretch the imagination with glimpses into a future fulfilled.
If you have not read one of my books of classical poetry, you will discover I have a wide range of interests from bubbling and bizarre humor to serious critiques of politics and society. First and foremost, though, are my usual twenty or more classical poems of love and romance including what have been judged superb love sonnets. "Shadows on the Garden Wall" is my 69th book of poetry and 92nd book of various genre. There are one hundred (100) classical poems of love and romance, wit and wisdom, humor and comedy, advice and dissent, patriotism and criticism, inspiration and perspication, history and mystery. Twenty-five (25) of my poems have been published by the prestigious Society of Classical Poets of which I am a member. You may read them all by going to their website, clicking on the Member button, clicking on my name and it will take you there. The cover credit is "Romantic Couple" by Carl Herpfer, 1633. Personally I am an Award Winning Singer and retired LTC, US Army, Military Intelligence and Russian Foreign Area Officer. I was the first US Foreign Commercial Officer in the Russian Far East and IBM Regional Manager in the same location. As one of the most educated men in America, I make no apologies for my logic and views on any subject you wish to name unless it is esoteric science.
Great poetry assails the senses and full range of human emotion. Eternal Spring contains ten sections with poetry to make everyone laugh as in Happy World and Fun for All (Parts I and II); consider Lessons of Life (Part III); relate to Romantic Refrains and Live and Love (Parts IV and V); understand why the author does not write in blank verse (Part VI); become spellbound with the Preternatural (Part VII), realize the effects of old age in Suddenly Winter (Section VIII); react to a range of issues in What Else (Part IX); and reflect on memories, including Chocolate Cherry Christmas and Leroy the Lucky Leprechaun in Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas (Part X). Along the way the reader will become engrossed and enthralled by one of the great rhyme and meter poets of the early 21st Century who compares to Poe, Frost, Longfellow, and Kilmer. His romantic love poems, Tonight I Sail the Dreamy Sea and I Believe in Miracles 'Cause I Believe in You, are in the tradition of Byron, Keats, and Shelley. In My Epitaph the ending will moisten the eyes of the discerning.Judge, Writer's Digest 21st Annual Self-Published Book Awards comment on his previous book American Heritage Poetry Collection:“American Heritage… represents a major achievement for Roy E. Peterson as he gathers a lifetime of poetry into this generous volume.....he's done his literary output justice.....”Judge, Writer's Digest 21st Annual Self-Published Book Awards comment on his previous book American Heritage Poetry Collection: “American Heritage… represents a major achievement for…Roy E. Peterson as he gathers a lifetime of poetry into this generous volume.....he's done his literary output justice.....”
LTC (US Army, Retired) Roy Peterson served as an Assistant Army Attaché inMoscow during the peak of the Cold War Years from 1983-1985. American Attaché in the Moscow Maelstrom is a carefully crafted work that opens the window on what it was like to serve American interests in that intense environment. This book is more than reminiscences. As a professional intelligence officer, the author provides instruction on how to conduct overt intelligence collection, insight into the craft of human intelligence collection, historical perspectives, and how act as an attaché. Although this is a nonfiction book, parts of it read like a novel. Roy Peterson is presently (2005) a faculty member of the University of Phoenix, President of TriCrown International LLC, and Senior Executive Vice President of Executive Information Systems and Investment Group. Roy Peterson served inVladivostok, Russia from 1993-94, as the first U.S. Foreign Commercial Officer in the Russian Far East for the US Department of Commerce, as a Visa Issuing Officer for the Department of State, and as the first Russian Far East Regional Manager for IBM. Roy is a recognized consultant and educator on international trade, marketing, and global business strategies.
When you savor the rhyme and meter of new classical poetry, you reconnect with your senses, are stimulated in the mind, and restore feeling to the heart. This is the author's 39th book of poetry, all of which include a minimum of 100 poems of romance, advice, humor, and spiritual uplift. The author has an innate depth of feeling that is conferred on the reader. Through pleasant hours of reading and understanding, you receive the gift of insight to the material, sharing of the comical, and access to the eternal worlds that inhabit the mind of the author. Ten sections in this book relate perfectly to the following realms of fantasy and reality: 1. Nostalgic poetry of the good old days including Frito Pies, Car Hops and Slang of the 1960's. 2. Love Poems involving romance, pressed roses and Sonnets. 3. Advice on character, friends and leaving legacies. 4. The humor of little llamas, pets and chili cookoffs. 5. Happy days and nights with coffee, hugs and tropical islands. 6. Understanding blessings, mothers and teachers. 7. Our protectors are angels, police and soldiers. 8. Faith of a mustard seed, truth and grace are all in this section. 9. Crusades involves conservative values including the U.S. Constitution and how to protect the first four freedoms in the Bill of Rights. 10. The last section is seasonal holidays from Christmas in December and birthdays to St. Patrick's Day in March. The author's "voice" is a mix of great poets from the past, which you may well identify from the reading of the varied verses.
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