Roy E Peterson

Poetry is Passion Roy E Peterson

TABLE OF CONTENTS (100 Poems) 1. PERSONAL PROCLIVITIES: Advice to Myself/Be Careful what you Wish For/Cousins Pull Together/ Inventing the Mirror Ap/My Art Career Ended Early/My Funeral Song/My New Home is a Railroad Car/Poetry is Passion/Postings on the Internet/Some Words Refuse to Rhyme 2. HAPPIER ACTIVITIES: Happiness Comes from Simpler Things/Just Give Me a Shovel/Kit, the Cute, Clean Kitten/Nickels and Dimes/Panda Bear, Panda Bear/Revealing Reunion Memories/Sonic Drive-In/Surprise Hill/When Elephants Dance/Who Remembers the Dairy Mart 3. HEARTS AND FLOWERS: I'd Walk through Burning Fire/I Love Faults in Others/Love Sonnet #12 Cloak of Love/My Heart Had a Love Attack/ Restoring Faded Love/Roses on Your Pillow/See the Palm Trees Sway/Sonnetesque #1: North Star/ You Can't Steal My Heart/You Mean So Much More to Me 4. BOWS AND ARROWS: America is the Prize/ Arrogance of the Apocalypse/I Want to Offend You/My Fury You Shall Feel/The Great Suppression/Truth in a Time of Deceit/ Truth is a Necessity/Truth is Kindness/Use it Wisely/When in the Course of Human Events/Wisdom for the Male Kingdom 5. EAGLES SOARING: Blue Angels Flying/Don't Tread on Me/Eagle Overwatch/Let Me Tell You about Eagles/Mount up like Eagles/My Home is in the Mountains/Now and Forever/When Eagles Start to Soar/When We Once Were Great/Where Eagles Dare 6. HOME HEARTH GLOWING: Abuse Begins and Ends at Home/Coffee Drinking Overture/Home is made for Hearthin/I Need Better Fly Swatters/Look Homeward Stranger/Mothers Watching Over Us/My Future Awaits/Open Letter to My Adult Children/Pussy Cats or Puddy Dogs/ Texas Barbecue is Different 7. HUMOR IN THE HILLS: Actually Men May be from Pluto/Buster and the Coons/Hillbilly Bill's Still/I'd Rather Be a Bumbling Bumble Bee/I Have a Premonition/I Just Go Nuts for You/Monkey Band Paint Thinner for Dinner/Taz and All That Jazz/ Tennessee Trustee 8. UNNATURAL THRILLS: American Army Attaché/ Cologne that Stands Alone/Elder Survivor/Far Flung Fanning of the Furies/Fiery Chili/The True Legend of Sheriff Elfedo Baca/Trolls of Norway/ Valley of the Trolls/When Men were Men and Hair was Glue/Zero 9. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKES: Angels Using Stardust/ Hope Springs Eternal/I Thought I Would Help/ Miracles Come in Moments/Serial Provokers are Really Psychopaths/The Garden Gate of Glory/ Thinking Like a Millionaire/What Good am I, Lord/ When You Go Out on a Limb/Who Can I Trust 10. MUSIC MAKES: Country Music Scandals/ Hearts and Flowers/If You've Got It, I've Had It/ I Led My Horse to Water/I Saw You Coming/I Think I'll Give You Up for Lent/Music Makes the World Go Round/Perfect Songs for Hurricane Parties/When the World was Ours/You Blow Me Away