A Pink Moon in April is a book of classic poetry with rhyme and rhythm on the order of Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The author has previously been praised for his extensive knowledge and wide range of subject matter. Divided into 10 Sections with 10 poems in each section, this work begins with Nature themes and concludes with highly charged Political Criticism of culture and government. Section I, Nature: Poems on Bossy Cows, Dog Days, Owls in Trees, They Have Not Found Bigfoot and Zucchini Hunting Season. Section II, Rose-Colored Glasses: Poems titled, If I Have Helped One Friend Today, Murphy's Laws, They are Millennials, and What Is Death. Section III, Merry Lasses: Poems range from the serious, such as Memories Become You and Men Get Stalked Too, to the comical, such as While I was Grilling Hamburgers. Section IV, Pink Moon Ridges: The classical Antony and Cleopatra poem begins the mood of the section and love poems are the theme including Love Beyond All Measure, Love is a Spring, Pink Moon in April, and Wedding Plans. Section V, Burning Bridges: The theme is problems and overcoming them in unique ways, such as Because I Am a Man, How Do You Like My Crib? and Roy's Rules of Kitchen Chaos. The author delves into Mistakes Most Glorious, and Mysteries Only Women Can Answer, besides Mad at Dog Disorder. Section VI, Manic Phase: The section begins with the eclectic Bangers and Mash and Bathroom Etiquette for Married Men. Funny poems include Just Give Me Dr. Pepper and Plucky Goose. The serious side is reflected in Trust Someone and What is Sorrow, But a Plea. Section VII, Holidays: The section begins with a mournful, yet hopeful poem, An Old Man on Memorial Day. Another Fruitcake Christmas and Rascal the Rambunctious Reindeer are on the funny side. Other holiday coverage include Happy Texas Birthday, Easter Bunny Funny, and What Our Flag Means to Me. Section VIII, Political Maze: This section begins with Goodbye Hillary and ends with Wicked with Hillary. Political Commentary includes Snowflakes on the Campus, The American Socialist Democratic Plan and the IRS Is Coming to Town. Section IX, Alabaster Sample: This section is both religious with poems like I May Never Pass This Way Again, Prayer Changes Things and Sniper Hallelujah; and mystical with Alabaster Tomb, Death is Here, and When I Walk in Shadows. Section X, Knights Exemplar: This section is politically hard-hitting with poems like "Brothel in the Sky, Correcting History is Incorrect, and God Hates the Evildoer. The author is particularly passionate in his poems I Will Not Surrender, Politics End When Violence Begins, Statues Standing Stately in the Park, and You Don't Burn My Flag.
About the Author: Roy E. Peterson is a member of the Society of Classical Poets and subscribes to the belief that poetry must have rhyme and meter or it is a false illusion of poetic skills. Modern blank verse is anathema to such poets who work hard and are sufficiently disciplined to have real classical form and substance. To one such as Roy Peterson, Modern Art is to Classical Art as Modern Poetry is to Classical Poetry-amorphous, lacking in rigorous and creative imagery, crass and blatantly lacking in subtle texture, and flash without flame. In his sixth book of poetry, Roy E. Peterson uses various rhyming schemes and meter to compose a work of enduring value. Roy E. Peterson is one of those generation transcending poets who has been a master at a wide variety of occupations-a renaissance man who has won awards for his solo music abilities, ascended the officer ranks in the military, served as a Foreign Service Diplomat in Russia, was selected as the first U.S. Foreign Commercial Officer in the Russian Far East, and was a major contributor to national intelligence collection and analysis. He learned Russian, German, and Vietnamese in the military and used them in his countries of assignment. If asked, Roy E. Peterson will tell you that his favorite poets and ones he emulates and reveres are Robert Frost for his homespun and nature poetry; Henry W. Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott, and Alfred Lord Tennyson for their patriotic and heroic bent; Ogden Nash and Dr. Seuss for their creatively amusing endeavors; Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats for their romantic refrains and lyrical qualities; and Edgar Alan Poe for his flair for the supernatural. Academically, Roy E. Peterson has over 200 postgraduate hours and has taught for various universities in the fields of Global Business Management, American History, World History, American Government, World Politics, and Political Theory.