Shipload of Love Poetry

About the Book

Cleo Ray Sobel is a native of Texas. She left Texas at an early age. After completing high school, bound for Oklahoma City, she took a course in Massage Therapy. She completed her studies and became a certified Massage Therapist. Helping people with stress and pain has been her life. After attending school in Chicago, Illinois, she worked for twenty-five years. She wrote a booklet, “Massage Express to Health and Beauty.” She wrote a song, “Let Go and Let God” and “Mother, A Precious Name” in 1980. Her hobbies are painting, playing the guitar, and singing. She also makes her own bath salts for relaxing. She likes to read and grows plants on her terrace. She is the daughter of the late Charles R. Ray and Ethel J. Ray and is the eldest of seven children. She is the widow of Jack Sobel, and she has just completed a love story about her and Jack. She wants to write more poetry and plans to write a chapbook. Her two grandmothers named her. One said Frances and the other grandmother was hurt, so her mother said, “Don’t be mad. We will just add Cleo.” So, now you have Frances Cleo. Mrs. Sobel now resides in New York City.

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