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    William’S Book of Poems and Short Stories
    William’S Book of Poems and Short Stories
    William’S Book of Poems and Short Stories
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    William’S Book of Poems and Short Stories

    By William D. Reid

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    A few years after I had been out of High School, I had started to learn how to write poetry. I was about 23 years old at the time. I was learning how to write and at the same time I was helping around the family farm.

    While growing up on the farm, we had a prime example to follow because our Grandmother, Agnes Just Reid, was a well-known local author. She had written and published a book about her mothers life along with three volumes of poetry. I am the fifth of seven children with an older sister, three older brothers and two younger sisters.

    Early in my experimental writing stage, I had one of my first pieces of poetry published. My grandmother was still alive at the time.

    Of all of my family members, I am the only one who cared about carrying on the writing tradition that our grandmother started. Writing has been a life-long interest of mine and the thing I cared about most in my whole life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateDec 20, 2011
    ISBN9781468509854
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      William’S Book of Poems and Short Stories - William D. Reid

      Contents

      Introduction to William’s Book of Poems and Short Stories

      50th Birthday Celebrations

      A Brief Visit

      From A C.B.er to a Ham Operator

      A California Trip 1974

      A California Trip 1977

      A California Trip 1988

      A Couple of Neighbors

      A Couple of Young Women

      A Cowboys Prayer

      A Day of Remembrance

      A Dying Breed

      A Family Walk

      A Few Fond Memories

      A Lasting Impression

      A Love Song

      A Man’s Worldly Needs

      Mankind

      Lucky things

      Love

      Summer 1975

      Big Trucks

      A Rain Poem

      Idaho’s Wind

      Work and War

      A Memory

      A Small Problem

      A Strange Predicament

      A Trip through the Mountains

      A Young Mother

      About Vicky and Robyn

      Along For the Ride

      An Empty Feeling

      Dedication to Andy and Shauna

      Andy and Shauna’s Graduation

      Another Trip

      Becky

      Better Off Alone

      Blue Eyes

      Bob’s 60th Birthday

      Corolee’s Wedding Reception

      Election Year 2004

      Election Year 2008

      Fair Time

      Feeling Unwanted

      Fisher and Christy

      Frontier Machinery

      Heroes of the West

      Incident on Highway 30

      It’s Nice to be Recognized

      Love is Blind

      Marriage

      Meeting the Bandit Queen

      Melissa’s 13th Birthday

      Mom and Dad’s 70th Anniversary

      My Death Wish

      My Dog Brownie

      My Heart is Gone

      My Neighbors

      My Old Red Truck

      My Trip to Alaska

      One Morning

      Our Trip across Wyoming

      Papa G and Daughter Dawniel

      Part of the Entertainment

      People and Places

      Poor Peter Jennings

      Red Light

      Remembering Ben

      Remembering The Becker’s

      Rolling a Smoke

      Safety Break Song

      Sambo’s

      Son of a Wanted Man

      Stepping Back In Time

      Stepping Back In Time #2

      The Money

      The Girl in the Mall

      The Hitch Hiker

      The Hitch Hiker #2

      The Life of a Cowboy

      The Lost Is Found

      The Marshal Who Never Was

      The Night We Matched

      The Reid Family and The Moore’s

      The Roundup of 1979

      The State Fair Song

      The Teton Family

      The Towns of Melrose and Dell

      The Visitor

      The Year of the Girls

      This Old Badge

      This Old Guitar

      Three Empty Places

      To Al Qaida in Iraq

      To Anne

      To Calanne

      To Cousin Dave

      To Jessica

      To Mimi and Uncle Doug

      To My Girlfriend

      To Rachael

      To the Al Qaida

      To the Taliban Fighters

      To Tony Paul

      Today’s Women

      Tools of the Trade

      Traveling Montana’s Land

      More Thoughts about Montana

      Tribute to Allen and Sheryl

      Two Old Friends

      Two Very Different Worlds

      Uncle Fred’s 85th Birthday

      Uncle Wallace’s 75th Birthday

      What a Woman Is

      Wheelin’ and Dealin’

      Wild Bill from Presto Bench Hill

      Women of Beauty

      Working with the Truckers

      You Ain’t Woman Enough

      You May Never Know

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      Introduction to William’s Book of Poems and Short Stories

      By, William D. Reid

      A few years after I had been out of High School, I had started to learn how to write poetry. I was about 23 years old at the time. I was learning how to write and at the same time I was helping around the family farm.

      While growing up on the farm, we had a prime example to follow because our Grandmother, Agnes Just Reid, was a well-known local author. She had written and published a book about her mother’s life along with three volumes of poetry. I am the fifth of seven children with an older sister, three older brothers and two younger sisters.

      Early in my experimental writing stage, I had one of my first pieces of poetry published. My grandmother was still alive at the time.

      Of all of my family members, I am the only one who cared about carrying on the writing tradition that our grandmother started. Writing has been a life-long interest of mine and the thing I cared about most in my whole life.

      50th Birthday Celebrations

      April 18, 2004

      I know of three people

      Who are going to have

      A birthday to celebrate

      And on one I’m already late.

      My sister Gerry’s was back in

      January on the 25th,

      Who had her birthday first

      But now she has turned 50 with.

      Then there will be my wife’s

      Coming up on the 8th of July,

      We will have been together 15 years

      For reasons I don’t even know why.

      Last but not least of all

      There is my sister-in-law Billie Ann,

      Who is married to my brother,

      The one that we call Paul.

      So this is a popular year

      For turning the big 50,

      And yes it is hard to believe

      But that’s the way things go.

      A Brief Visit

      Aug 18, 2005

      I was out at the truck stop one day

      When a young woman happened to come in,

      I wanted to get acquainted with her

      And tell her stories of where I’ve been.

      I had a very short talk with her

      Before she said she had to go,

      I told her where we could pick huckleberries;

      Then I very willingly gave her my number

      So she could call me on my phone.

      She never did try to get back with me

      But there were times I’d called her home,

      And the only answer that I got was;

      From a daughter of hers who told me

      Basically, to leave her mother alone.

      I think she would have liked me

      Had she just given me a chance,

      To let things happen like they’re supposed to

      Rather than to walk away and have no romance.

      From A C.B.er to a Ham Operator

      May 2, 2004

      I remember when I first became interested in radio communications back in the mid 70’s I’ve always had a curiosity I guess about how radio waves worked and where they went, when you got done talking into the mic. So my friend Mike and I got involved with a local C.B. club in Blackfoot. The Club that we belonged to was called Blackfoot Emergency. What we did as a club was help people on major holiday weekends was go out and set up a trailer along the interstate and serve drinks and doughnuts. We had monthly meetings that we went to on a regular basis, but about three times a year we volunteered to help out at the take a breaks.

      What this is, is the C.B. Club would get together and take a trailer out on a holiday, like the 4th of July weekend, and set it up so we could wait on the people who were traveling a long distance out on the Interstate. They would stop at the rest area where we were come to the window and order a hot chocolate and some goodies we had for them.

      We would also have a book on the table for the people to sign before they headed down the long road again Often we would get people from all fifty states, but there were times when we didn’t.The most interesting thing to me in being part of this whole ordeal was, when we met people from all around the world. There were many times I remember foreigners stopping by our booth who couldn’t speak the English language. So when they would talk in their native tongue that is what I found the most fascinating about them. When we weren’t busy waiting on our customers, we would get on the C.B. radio and talk to the truckers, or whoever might be out there listening. Back in those days you had to have a license to operate a C.B. radio under the new Federal Communications Commission’s rules. I did have one but don’t remember when I got mine. Well, anyway when our long weekend was over everybody who was involved with the C.B. Club and take a break on the highway life went on as usual

      We would go back to our regular jobs until the next take-a-break. The C.B.ers had a monthly meeting that my friend Mike from Shelley, (Happy Boy) on the radio and myself (Wild Bill) that was my handle as it was known to all the Upper Snake River Valley C.B.ers

      Some of these people had their own C.B. Club called the Helping Hand. Mike and I did not belong to this club simply because it was easier to drive to Blackfoot go to our meeting, hear what up-coming events were going on and then go home. There was a time when I was not active in the club because I’d moved to Washington. My younger sister was living inWallaWalla, and she helped me get a job, and find a place to live. So after a while when I had been associated with certain people that had radio communications, I would listen to the conversations back and forth on their radio. I was always around some kind of radio or another. Even at my work so the shop could call the workers out in the field

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