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Poetry Event – July 17th

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lisa James, mary cm phillips, Oceanside, poetry, poetry event 2023, Richard Vetere, Robert Savino, summer poetry series on July 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »

If you’re on Long Island Monday, July 17th (7:00 pm), please join us for an evening of poetry under the stars. It’s part of the Summer Gazebo Reading Series (hosted by Oceanside Library and the Kiwanis).

The location: Oceanside, Long Island (Schoolhouse Green, Foxhurst Road).

I’ll be one of the featured poets along with Richard Vetere, Robert Savino, and Lisa James.

Hope to see some of you there! Oh, and bring a lawn chair! xo m

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Poem for Good Friday

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Good Friday poem, Good Friday poetry, mary cm phillips, poetry for Easter on April 7, 2023| 4 Comments »

First Blossom

Upon the hill of Calvary

a tree, a cedar grows

Its roots were planted long ago

its sap, a crimson rose

Deep within the earth – a shaking

in highest halls of heaven’s – waking

as a tender shoot of love emerges

and mighty sower-spirit surges

through this messy muck of earth

praise, first blossom of rebirth

— Mary C. M. Phillips

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Happy World #Poetry Day!

Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2023| 6 Comments »

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Dear Mistakes (new #poetry)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bards Annual, Dear Mistakes, Dear You poems, guitar produced by mark phillips, MaryCMPhillips, poetry, poetry anthologies, regret poem, rock n soul gospel, spoken word, spokenwordpoetry, WCWP on January 28, 2023| 8 Comments »

We’ve all made mistakes.

Some mistakes, unfortunately, are not easily forgotten.

As a way of dismissing my own dear mistakes, I’ve composed this poem. It appears in two new poetry anthologies: Bards Annual 2022 (Bards Initiative) and the upcoming Dear You, Poems Through the Heart (Red Penguin).

You can hear the spoken-word version of Dear Mistakes here:

As always thanks to Mark Phillips for adding some rather unique music. Special thanks to Chris MacIntosh a/ka/ Grandfather Rock of Rock ‘n’ Soul Gospel, WCWP radio (Fridays 9PM-11PM and Sundays 6PM-10PM) for playing new poetry.