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.