John Fox

John Fox is a poet, author, teacher and Certified Poetry Therapist. He has served as a leader in the movement of promoting poetry therapy as an expressive art and healing modality for over 30 years. John has brought poetry therapy to hospitals, churches, schools, and retreat centers internationally. He is the author of Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity through Poem-Making and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making.

The Poem Waits At Its Own Core

The poem at its core

Is snow or egg,

The new moon or grass

In spring.

All these pause at the edge

Of change. There is a deep

Stillness you must pass through

To get close to what waits.

At this edge, you leave

Everything behind

Except what the poem needs:

Warmth, rain, silence,

Gravity --

Make it something you know

Only for the first time:

A river, heartbeat,

Cradle, field of play.

The place where all things

Begin again.

— John Fox