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    Behind The Wheel: A Trucker's Poetry Book
    Behind The Wheel: A Trucker's Poetry Book
    Behind The Wheel: A Trucker's Poetry Book
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    Behind The Wheel: A Trucker's Poetry Book

    By Charles Reynolds

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    Charles B Reynolds is a (former) trucker who is tired of the misunderstood and much maligned life of a trucker. The general public view of a trucker as a uneducated, unruly, uncouth person who is nothing but a pain on the road is far from the truth. Charles examines life on the road, the impact on family friends, the reality of the job and the life of a trucker in general.

    Charles has been wriitng for over 34 years and has numerous careers from a sonar tech in the Navy to a frelance journalist. Trucking was one of the most difficult in terms of everyday life and the perception of the general public on what these dedicated professionals offer in relation to what they have to do in order to earn a living.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles Reynolds
    Release dateSep 15, 2011
    ISBN9781466097148
    Behind The Wheel: A Trucker's Poetry Book
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    Charles Reynolds

    Charles B Reynolds is a freelance writer with over 34 years experience writing. "Behind the Wheel" is his first book of published poetry. "CATHARSIS" is his second eBook, a collection of short-short fiction. His non-fiction book, "Thinking Ou Loud: The Book" is now published.

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      Behind The Wheel - Charles Reynolds

      Introduction

      I've had many careers and interests throughout my life. One of the most virulent activities which has occupied my time has been keeping busy and trying not to be bored with life. Of the many different job careers I have had was driving a truck for a number of years. I've driven OTR (Over The Road) and hauled containers for a regional container company. One thing I can tell you, is that driving four, five, six hundred miles a day can make your mind go a little boggy. I've listened to music, talk radio, the news and books on tape to relieve the boredom and mind numbing madness of the thumpity thump of tires over asphalt.

      I decided to put one of my other interests to good use. I took pictures while I traveled. This was pretty cool. Then I decided maybe I would incorporate another fondness of mine, writing. I pondered story ideas of detective truckers, truckers in science fiction settings and truckers that ran the government behind the scenes. Nothing really jumped out at me on that regard. Yet. But then I thought of poetry.

      Help Me! I'm Poetry Challenged!

      I don't know much about poetry. I have been writing prose since 1977 and music lyrics for just as long. But every time I have had a class or been in a discussion with writer friends, I just seem to be poetry challenged.

      I never really contemplated the whole of poetry. Nor did I realize, until one time I decided to delve into it, that there is a huge catalogue to poetry, There are terms, of course, such as cinquain and iambic pentameter. As far as my dull poem-wit can fathom, the latter is where a line of poetry has five sets of up and down speech. The first syllable is unstressed, the second is stressed. The third syllable is unstressed, the fourth is stressed. And it goes on from there.

      But there are also scores of different types of poetry as well. For example, most of us have heard of the Haiku and the Epic. But have you ever heard of the Tanka? This is a Japanese poem that consists of 31 syllables, broken down by lines as five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables, seven and seven. Or could you possibly be familiar with the Terza Rima? No, you say? Well, Dante was credited with creating it (Divine Comedy), and it was used by the likes of Chaucer (Complaint to His Lady), Frost (Acquainted With The Night) and Shelley (Ode To The West Wind). I can't even go into what constitutes a Terza Rima without my mind going into some Escher

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