AMERICAN HERITAGE POETRY COLLECTION
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IF I WERE AN ANIMAL, WHICH ONE WOULD I BE? By Roy E. Peterson (April 4, 2012) If I were an animal, where would I be? Down on the ground or up in a tree? Perhaps in the sky flying in a vee? Or swimming around down under the sea? If I were an animal, how would I hide? Perhaps in a burrow where I could abide. A good camouflage I sure would have tried. Or hidden myself down under the tide. If I were an animal, what could I do So I could avoid the fate of a zoo? Run faster than wind, fly high in the air? Use razor sharp claws, or have teeth that can tear? If I were an animal, who would I be? A soft Teddy Bear, so soft and snuggly. With a mistress to carry me under her arm To hug me a lot and keep me from harm.
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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.
About the Author
LTC Roy E. Peterson authored three books of poetry “Beyond Darkness and Light” (2011), “Guardian Angel” (2012), and “American Heartland Poetry, Wit, and Wisdom”. In recent years he authored six more books of fiction, nonfiction, relationships, and juvenile literature. LTC Peterson was born and raised in South Dakota, the American Heartland, and then moved with his family to Texas at the age of thirteen. His writings bear 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. A graduate of Hardin-Simmons University (BA degree) in Abilene, Texas, LTC Peterson holds three Masters degrees in Business (University of Phoenix), International Relations (University of Southern California) and Political Science (University of Arizona). His first poem was published while at Hardin-Simmons University. LTC Peterson served in the Army as Commander, Portal Monitoring, of Soviet missiles under the INF Treaty for the On-Site Inspection Agency, Military Intelligence and Security Advisor to the Army Staff in the Pentagon, Commander of a Military Intelligence Company in Germany for the 66th MI Group, and Assistant Army Attaché in Moscow. Roy Peterson was selected by the US Department of Commerce as the First Foreign Commercial Officer in the Russian Far East at the newly opened US Consulate in Vladivostok, Russia and as a Visa Issuing Officer for the US Department of State. IBM offered and he accepted a position as the first IBM Regional Manager in the Russian Far East, a territory the size of the continental United States. More recently, Roy Peterson taught Elites in Government, American History Since 1945, Marketing, and Global Management for the University of Phoenix in San Diego and Southern California. He opened an international trade business and sold product to foreign countries.