‘My Fairytale’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society June 3, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry 16 Comments . My Fairytale You could be my Cinderella _I danced with at the ball. You’re the one I’m looking for _Since you first fled the hall. You could...
‘Ten Pennies Per Paper Poppy’: A Memorial Day Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 26, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Ten Pennies Per Paper Poppy ---a childhood memory of Memorial Day Ten pennies per paper poppy I helped my mother sell We sold some fifty...
‘Spring Has Sprung’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 20, 2025 Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Spring Has Sprung Spring has sprung. It has begun--- _Birds nesting in the tree. It’s warm again. The cackling hen _Can go outside to...
‘Big Pharma Ads Are Everywhere’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 6, 2025 Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . Big Pharma Ads Are Everywhere Big Pharma ads are everywhere __Suffusing my TV. They fail to give me confidence __that they are right for me. They...
An Easter Poem: ‘In the Garden of the King’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society April 19, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . In the Garden of the King In the garden of the King I sit beside a crystal spring. The Tree of Life shines up above Fed by God’s eternal...
Two Poems on Happiness, by Roy E. Peterson The Society April 1, 2025 Beauty, Children's, Poetry 17 Comments . Happy Like Winnie the Pooh If I could be happy like Winnie the Pooh, Just thinking of good things in all that I do. I’d just want some honey—a...
‘We Already May Be in Purgatory’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society March 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . We Already May Be in Purgatory The Peterson Postulate "What if this life is just a test so we can become better people?" ---The White Lotus HBO TV...
‘Lines for Your Valentines’: A Valentine’s Day Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society February 14, 2025 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 16 Comments . Lines for Your Valentines Without you here, my life is like A broken pencil, simply pointless. And if you tell me to take a hike, My legs won’t...
‘Fifties Country Living’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society February 13, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Fifties Country Living Sit down with me my children, come! __I'll spin a tale or two About when I was just a kid __in nineteen fifty-two. No cell...
‘Death Is But a Passing’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society January 18, 2025 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments . Death Is But a Passing A death is but a passing from one world into another, A change of state, a change of place, a starting to discover, A test...
‘Twas the Day After Christmas’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 26, 2024 Poetry, Satire 10 Comments . 'Twas the Day After Christmas ‘Twas the day after Christmas. Mom went to the store To return all her presents and gift herself more. The...
‘Journalists Live in a Fantasy World’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 16, 2024 Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . Journalists Live in a Fantasy World If you like fiction, then turn on the news. You will hear journalists giving their views. Facts are...
‘American Espionage and the Soviet Target’: A Poem on His Experiences, by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 2, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . American Espionage and the Soviet Target I was assigned to Russia as an Army attaché— A legal spy who operated every single day. The era of the...
‘Black Friday Before Christmas’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society November 29, 2024 Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . Black Friday Before Christmas Many of the stories are real ones from the Internet. ‘Twas the month before Christmas right after Thanksgiving.I...
‘Truth Streaked Across the Sky’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society November 18, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Truth Streaked Across the Sky Truth streaked across the skyAlighting on a foreign strand,Where politicians buried itBeneath the lying sand. The...
‘Song of the Spirit’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society October 31, 2024 Beauty, Music, Poetry, The Raven 28 Comments . Song of the Spirit After midnight slightly drowsy, Contemplating writing lousy, While the script-score I redacted, Something in my head...
‘Consequences of Following Advice’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society October 7, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . Consequences of Following Advice Advice can come in snappy lines __That have a fun refrain: “Let a smile be your umbrella,” __Though that...
‘I Love My Paranoia’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society September 23, 2024 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . I Love My Paranoia I love my paranoia That no one else can see. It’s like a loving shadow Surely protecting me. Some say it's a sixth sense, Or...
‘I Have Waited for September’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society September 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 26 Comments . I Have Waited for September I have waited for September When the stars shine silver white; When the sun with trepidation Chases off the cold of...
‘Cold Blooded Murder’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society August 7, 2024 Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Cold Blooded Murder It is a hot and muggy Sort of Texas day. Time to do my stalking And hunting down my prey. I’m armed and dangerous. My weapon...
‘What Is Grief?’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society July 24, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 25 Comments . What Is Grief? When we are plagued by grief, We only think of sorrow— The loss of a dear loved one Whom we won't see tomorrow. Tears haunt our...
‘My Patchwork Quilt’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society July 10, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 23 Comments . My Patchwork Quilt Somewhere within my closet a patchwork quilt rests there; The patches cut by hands and with stitches sewn with care. The...
‘American Dream Where Did You Go?’: A July 4th Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society July 4, 2024 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . American Dream Where Did You Go? American dream, where did you go? Visions grand that I loved so? Land of opportunity Heading toward...
‘Rending the Night’: A Vietnam War Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society June 26, 2024 Culture, Poetry 33 Comments . Rending the Night Remembering My Army Service in Vietnam . Flying bullets rend the night, Sleeping birds in instant flight. See the darkness...
‘I Hear the Distant Thunder’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society June 12, 2024 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . I Hear the Distant Thunder I hear the distant thunder rolling__Across the nighttime sky.Incendiary lightning strikes__Of fire are drawing nigh.If I...
‘I Saw a Naked Wood Nymph’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 29, 2024 Humor, Poetry 25 Comments . I Saw a Naked Wood Nymph I sat down in the forest, a picnic in the shade. I saw a naked wood nymph flitting across the glade. I dropped my sandwich...
‘And Yet We Wash Our Hands’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . And Yet We Wash Our Hands When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, butthat instead an uproar was starting, he took waterand washed his hands in...
‘Some Can’t See the Beauty’: A Springtime Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society April 30, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 20 Comments . Some Can't See the Beauty Some can’t see the beauty in __A flower or a tree. I call them nature blind because __Their minds won’t let them...
‘The Woods Have Waited Anxiously’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society April 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 41 Comments . The Woods Have Waited Anxiously The woods have waited anxiously for me to reappear. I left them when the snow piled high in fall of late last...
Soviet Tactics I Witnessed and Still in Use Today by ‘Masters of Deception’: by LTC Roy E. Peterson The Society April 2, 2024 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 38 Comments . Soviet Tactics I Witnessed and Still in Use Today by LTC Roy E. Peterson Outside of the Chinese Communist Party, which itself uses forms of...
‘Coffee Limericks’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society March 17, 2024 Humor, Limerick, Poetry 45 Comments . Coffee Limericks . I love to have coffee each morning, Including the act of the pouring: __I smell the aroma, __Come out of my coma, And wonder...
‘Come on Congress, Do Your Jobs’: A Poem on the Southern Border by Roy E. Peterson The Society March 4, 2024 Culture, Poetry 38 Comments . Do Your Jobs Live up to the Constitution That contains a plain solution. Guard us from invading mobs. Come on Congress, do your jobs. It’s...
‘You Can’t Control Everything’ and Other Poetry by Roy E. Peterson The Society February 18, 2024 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . You Can't Control Everything You can't control the wind that blows, The destiny of others' souls, Time and tides and what they bring--- You can't...
A Poem on the Winter of 1949 Blizzard, by Roy E. Peterson The Society January 30, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . A Blanket of Snow from childhood memories of the blizzard of 1949 on a farm near Bonesteel, South Dakota. The world is all bound in a blanket of...
‘Christmas Hallelujah’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 25, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Christmas Hallelujah sung to the melody of “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen When I hear a song of destiny, Of peace and love and harmony, From...
Dancing Bear: A Christmas Party Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 22, 2023 Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . Dancing Bear I came late to the party. I should have stayed away. When I walked in, I heard the din of party in full sway. I cannot much remember...
‘Limericks for Lame Cowboys’ and Other Poetry by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 13, 2023 Humor, Limerick, Poetry 14 Comments . Limericks for Lame Cowboys A cowboy who came from Seattle, Had a habit of disturbing cattle. __The horse made a jump. __He fell on his rump, And...
‘You Might Be a Leftist Liberal Democratic Clone’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society November 28, 2023 Poetry, Satire 19 Comments . You Might Be a Leftist Liberal Democratic Clone You might be a leftist liberal Democratic clone, If you think someone else should pay your student...
‘Sounds Like Paradise’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society November 14, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Sounds Like Paradise Kids are in the backyard playing; __The dog is playing too. I think that sounds like Paradise--- __Doesn’t it to you? Wife...
‘The Democratic Party Dressed for Halloween’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society October 29, 2023 Poetry, Satire 34 Comments . The Democratic Party Dressed for Halloween The Democratic Costume Party is held on Halloween With Hillary as Jezebel, the dangerous sleazy...
