Coffee, Tea, and Poetry with Bucolic Imagery: 150 Original Classic Rhyming Poems

“Coffee, Tea and Poetry with Bucolic Imagery” is a collection of 150 original classical rhyming poems by the author who has published with this volume 7,000 original classical poems in 98 volumes among his 121 books. In his non-compendium books such as this one, his poetry is divided into sections of ten poems. In this one they are: 1.) Love and Romance, 2.) America 250th Anniversary 3.) Humor and Comedy, 4.) Wit and Wisdom, 5.) Inspiration and Fantasy, 6.) Nature 7.) Haiku, 8.) Political and Social Observations, 9.) Personal Reflections, and 10.) Society of Classical Poets Limerick Challenge, 11.) Revisions that I do not count as added originals.I am a member of the prestigious Society of Classical Poets and a member of the Advisory Board. More than two hundred fifty (250) of my poems have been published by the Society of which I am a member. I have been an award-winning poet and featured writer in several annual volumes of the Journal of the Society of Classical Poets, Western Writers, Oprelle and Quiet Thoughts.LTC Roy E. Peterson is a prolific American poet who has written 7,000 verifiable classical rhyming poems in 98 of his 121 books. His 7,000 verifiable poems are second only to Edgar A. Guest with 11,000. His 610 sonnets are the most in history followed by Petrarch with 317. He is equal to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., John McCrea, Mark F. Stone, and Gabriele D’Annunzio as the highest-ranking military officers (Lieutenant Colonels) to be poets.Humor, wit, and wisdom are Roy’s forte. He is compared to humorists Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers rolled into one.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. Read more