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Hello all you FBA readers! We sure appreciate your company and comments and to say thank you, we’re ready to have our first contest. It’s a Family Photo Contest! All you need to do to enter is send a photo of your family to leah at leahpeah . com (be sure to remove the spaces) [...]

You know what? I can’t deal with this today, so I’m taking this entry down.
I deleted some comments because I’m really very thin skinned.

Embarrassing Confession: When I read the love poem that Sue posted, my first thought was “Pablo Neruda. Oh yeah! Il Postino!”
If you name a poet, there’s a 78% chance that I’ve never heard of him or her. It’s not that I’m a hater of poetry, it’s more like: I’m mortifyingly ignorant.
With that said, I DO [...]

One of them, anyway…
 

Sonnet XVII
 

 
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of [...]