Poem That Will Lift You Up

Charlie McReynolds was born and reared near a large
Cattle ranch in West Texas. He was the fourth child in
A family of six, two older sisters, a brother, and twin
Sisters younger than he. He dreamed of travel and far
away places as a child while milking three cows and
laying on the haystack looking at the blue sky and the
bright West Texas stars. After college, a run at the
Texas legislature, a short term as editor and publisher
of the Andrews Reporter, he started traveling for a
large steel company. He had written several poems
while in college and as a reporter, but on his traveling
job, he was again all alone on the road and he begin
to write again.Wining a trip to England got him
thinking about other places to go. The Philippines,
Poland, East Germany, India, Czechoslovakia,
Pakistan, France, and Holland as well Belgium, Wales
and Scotland was where he traveled until he zeroed in
on Cuba.