During the Winters of the 1980s in a small Northwest Indiana farm town called Dyer, where the days and nights were long, quiet and cold, I would often look out our kitchen window at the massive snow drifts and wonder if and when Spring would arrive. In the depths of depression and with nothing else to do, these poems emerged, one by one, like petals dropping from a big, beautiful red rose.

On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt Olivia, Mama's only sister, who lives in Los Angeles. It is a red rose box. Not many people in 1958 Louisiana have seen such a beautiful traveling case, covered with red roses, filled with jewelry, silk bedclothes, expensive soaps...and train tickets to California. Soon after, Leah and her sister, Ruth, find themselves in Hollywood, far away from cotton fields and Jim Crow laws. To Leah, California feels like freedom. But when disaster strikes back home, Leah and Ruth have to stay with Aunt Olivia permanently. Will freedom ever feel like home?

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A classic poem with a timeless message, presented in a small and beautiful gift book. Rose Milligan never intended to publicly share her poem 'Dust If You Must', but a series of events led her to publish it in The Lady magazine in 1998. Her charming message about what we value in life resonated with audiences, and it has since been read on BBC radio, posted on Instagram, printed on tea towels, read at funerals and put to music. Now appearing as a book for the first time, beautifully illustrated throughout by illustrator Hayley Wells, Dust If You Must is a timeless reminder to focus on the things we can enjoy in the world, rather than the things we think we need to do.

Though through this poetry the author has written in this as he call ́s it a poetry novel. From when he were a child of his life his own time, with and around the most inspirational, influential people and things the author knew though he wrote this poetry as a blessing to all the author ever knew. That spoke the wisdom the memorable words the author knew to write in this book of poetry. Though in the days of innocence and blissfulness of the authors sight and heard the life the author here has lived and sometimes thought that he would die. To write this became not just a job, it ́s an adventure a life the author would never forget. For the smart and wise way and ways the author did and still hears from the people around him he writes not for himself but for the things he see ́s and hears from the dreams, hopes and the vision ́s and the imagine of himself the author of The Book of Poems of That Traveler.