Jake Fox

Writer, poet, musician, photographer, dreamer. Inspirations: Gelman, Dalton, Galeano, Gellhorn, Cortázar, Cisneros, Poe, Williams. #WritingCommunity

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

Outside...
Insects holler
Frogs call
Trucks rumble
Leaves dance
The river runs
And moonlight tip toes across us all
Lighting our way forward
#words #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrytwitter #PoetryInMotion #writerscommunity #nature #nights #moon

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

We have defied space & time
Connected the planet
Joined people seemingly eons apart

We have challenged the impossible
Changed the world
Done the unthinkable

All, for endless reels of stupid cat videos
#Internet #poetry #poetrylovers #cat #depression #cyberworld

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

Bird calls, early morn
Calm tiptoeing after storm
Songs of life reborn

#poetry #poems #writing #haiku #writingcommunity #writers #writerscommunity #nature #photography #sunrise

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

Night sky
Pink sky
The calm before the storm

Rain clouds
Thick clouds
Covering us like blankets

Smothering air
Drowning air
Like insulation in a sound room

Distant breeze
Welcomed breeze
Rustling trees, tickling leaves

& us awaiting

#poetry #poems #nature #WritingCommunity

[r kay @__rkay]

—Noor Hindi

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

@FluidHips Thank you!

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

Grey moonlight shadows
Leaves rustling, pre-dawn
Chilly wind returned

#poetry #haiku #haikuthursday
#haikupoetry #fall #cold #wind #words #writing #writingcommmunity #poem #poems #seasons #nature

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

@RobertFael Thanks Robert!

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

"Why does it keep happening?"
I asked my friend.

"Because the rest of society sees no value in the lives of people here. And the savagery is justified in the headlines, as an exception and not the rule."

#poetry #massacre #RiodeJaneiro #WritingCommnunity #writersforjustice

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

A police massacre in Rio
Today, all the headlines
Tomorrow, forgotten

But not by the mothers
brothers
wives
sisters
sons & daughters

Not by the residents forced to clean up the mess
carnage
wreckage
bloody floors
& walls ripped by bullet holes

#poetry

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

Not by the neighborhood
suffocated by the wails
gunshots
helicopter blades churning
shouts & screams

Not by the ghosts killed execution-style
Erasing dreams
Hopes
Prayers & Love
With the barrel of a state-sanctioned gun

#poetry

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

A tent in the yard
Under endless hazel sky
Escape how you can

#haiku #poetry #poetrythursday
#haikupoetry #words #travel #camping #WritingCommunity #POEMS

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

@J_Motoki Nice!

[The B'K Magazine 🇵🇸 @TheBKMagazine]

Mags taking previously published pieces:
@BlossomsPoetry
@BarrenMagazine
@bitterfruitrev
@brokencitymag
@Brwnbgnln
@cauldronanth2
@Classicalpoets
@CoinOpPress
@CPQuarterly
@CraftLiterary
@crow_name
@deepwildjournal
@dishsoapquart
@elevstories
@farsidereview
@FracturedLit

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

@mdnij34 Toyota Celica

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

When #night rumbles on
Passing you by
Like a semi on an empty highway
& you left standing on the shoulder
Harsh wind thumping your jacket
Broken asphalt
kicked up
Into the brush
Your empty hand
outstretched
Thumb in the air
Wishin' you could catch a ride

#poetry

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

Clothes, pouring from couch.
Covering the floor -- burying
us under their weight.

#Haiku #poetry #Haikupoetry #haikuchallenge #poem #poems #poema #poetrycommunity #PoetryTuesday #writing #WritingCommunity #laundry #art #life #photography #PHOTOS

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

Tried a #writerslift
Didn't work. Silence like crickets.
Guess I'll stick to poems :)

Seriously, I must have missed a memo. If someone can explain how it's supposed to work, that'd be great. New here. Thanks to those who did engage!
#poetry #haikupoetry #haiku #WritingCommunity

[Jake Fox @WordsByFox]

Hi #WritingCommunity! I'm new here. I'd love a #writerslift. I'm a poet, writer & photographer. I've written & am querying a YA Thriller (w/ speculative shades). Fan of magical realism & twisting reality. I'd love to meet others. You know the drill. Will gladly follow & retweet.

[breathing poetry @thoughtproc3ss]

40 degrees
Sand to my knees
Never ending dunes
In front of me
Wild horses long gone
Lone eagle's cry at the horizon
I'm stuck
The desert stretches
and stretches
and stretches...

#SlamWords

[N. Scott Momaday @NSMomaday]

Be still. Gather yourself. The storm rolls away and there comes a clear dawn.