Before I Go to Bed: Poetry for Dreaming

By Roy E. Peterson

1. GOOD TIME RHYMES: Blackberry Cobbler/Fate is Fickle, Eat a Pickle/Fishing Soothes the Savage Soul/I am a Chestnut Tree/My Doorbell Works Just Fine/Painting Word Pictures/Simple Times and Simple Rhymes/Taffy Pull/The Story Behind "Pop Goes the Weasel"/The Tastiest Mud Pies I Ever Ate 2. ONCE UPON A TIME: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc/I Only have had One Nightmare/Mr. Frog and Mr. Toad/My Dog Rusty/My First Bomb/Nursery/ Rhyme Crime/Once Upon a Time/Wee Willie Weasel/Whatever Happened to Reddy Kilowatt(TM) When Lightning Strikes 3. HEARTS AND FLINGS: Before I Go to Bed/Be My Flower Girl/Crimson Hearts and Diamond Rings Holding the Umbrella/It must be Spring Again/ Long Road of Love/Love is not a Two-Way Street Peaches/Show Me a River/You are my Soulmate 4. FUNNY THINGS: Are You Tryin' to Teach me New Tricks/Cinco de Mayo/5th of May/Cinco de Mayo to Seis/Diet Dilemmas/Happy Boy/If I Had no Neighbors/My Dog Won't Hunt/The Real Fortune Cookies/Things I Need to Do/Trimming Trees 5. MEMORIES OF MOTHERS: Creation of Mom Happy Mothers/Hearing Mother's Voice/Heavenly Mothers' Club/How much Do We Owe MothersMother's Day Salute/Mothers Have Antennas/Mothers in Heaven/Now that Mother's Day is Here/Thank You for our Mothers 6. ADVICE FROM THE SAGE OF SAN ANGELO: Always Being Right: Advice from the Sage Autograph Your Work with Excellence/Debt and the Interest of Others/How Much Longer Dad/It is Okay/Self-Quotes on Truth/Siberian Venture/So Young Man you are ready for a Date/The World of the Narcissist/When all else Fails 7. WINDMILL IN OUR MIND Allergy Season is Tough this Year/Cupid Tries His very Best/Hey, Hey, Snowflake/I am Having News Flashes/It Must Have Been My Alter Ego/Mother's Old-Time Cold Remedies/One Painting/Tender Was the Night/The Perfect Love/Windmill in our Mind 8. POLITICAL ACTION: Be the Force/How to Shoot Down a Drone/If I Were a Congressman/Invasion of California/Political Action/Speaking for the Republican Party/The Secret Code of the 1960's The Week Before Memorial Day/Though I May Rage/Who Reopened History's Dust Bin 9. THANK YOU LORD: A Young Boy's Prayer/ Choose the Path of Righteousness/Heal My Wounds, Oh Lord/Hell is Open to us All/How Long will last my Grief/Life Lived Well/Psalms 139, The Bible, Search Me/There is a Quiet Place/We Know it as God's Plan/When God is Silent 10. MUSIC: All the Joys and All the Sorrows/I Got a Mercedes/I was Going to Send you my Love/My Song Writing Career/Take Me to your Sea/The Joint Heirs Gospel Quartet/There's a Kiss I Might have MissedThe Worse for Wear Bar/Time's Run Out/Unfinished Song Thoughts

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1718779755
• ISBN13: 9781718779754
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"