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Jeffrey Spahr-Summers

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Born

in Colorado Springs

Website

http://jeffreyspahrsummers.com

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Arts & Photography

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Jeffrey (A.K.A. ZZ Baggins) started writing poetry and taking photographs over 37 years ago while living in South Africa. He is a former Chicago saloon poet. He is the founder of The Chicago Poetry Agenda and a former active board member of The Tulsa Arts and Humanities Literary Arts Council. A former member of The Greater Dallas Community of Writers, he has conducted and participated in numerous poetry workshops and feature readings in the U.S.

His poetry, visual arts and photographs have been published around the world in numerous print and online journals, as well as five anthologies. He has published seven books of poetry: Fear of Heights (1984, Spahr-Summers Publications), The Cherry Poems (2006, Cherry Publications), i believe (2009, ...more

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	i believe 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cherry Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Non-Practicing Virgin by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads Author) (Photographs), Marissa Lehto (Poetry) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stray Bullets: A Celebration of Chicago Saloon Poetry by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ida Therese Jablanovec it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fear of Heights it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Step into the Light: Poems from Recovery it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“All things that we are given are not ours to keep, all we get is the moment.”
― Jeffrey Spahr-Summers

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“Forgiveness is a gift we can only give to ourselves.”
― Jeffrey Spahr-Summers

tags: forgiveness, hope, inspirational, love

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“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

tags: life, lnspirational, love

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“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: creativity, genius, poem-in-your-pocket-day

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“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

tags: life

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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“...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.”
― Anton Chekhov, Short Stories by Anton Chekhov: About Truth, Freedom, Happiness, and Love

tags: love

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