Mary C. M. Phillips

Dear Mistakes (new #poetry)

January 28, 2023 by posted by Mary C. M. Phillips

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.

Have a great day, remember to be kind to yourself, and please subscribe to this blog…if you’re so inclined. 💜 Mary

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Deep winter (#poetry)

January 25, 2023 by posted by Mary C. M. Phillips

Thankfully, the bite of winter has only appeared briefly here in Pennsylvania.

This poem, Deep Winter, explores not only the literal winter but the spiritual one; the winter we might experience on any given day.

You can hear the spoken-word version of Deep Winter below. The written-word version appears in the upcoming Pennsylvania Bards Eastern PA Poetry Review (Local Gems Press).

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Paumanok (poetry & art)

April 18, 2022 by posted by Mary C. M. Phillips

Today I received this beautiful coffee-table book full of poetry and photographs.

Paumanok Transitions, edited by Kathaleen Donnelly, is tribute to the unique and sublime nature of Long Island. Poems by Long Island native, Walt Whitman, also weave in and out of the pages.

The poem I wrote for the book, The Three Sisters, is a fable-like poem that explores the relationship between the three prominent vegetables grown by the Algonquin who dwelled in the county of Suffolk.

I’m excited to be part of such an artful project — alongside several Long Island Poet Laureates and award-winning photographers.

Oh, the wonder of poetry and art!

O the amazement of things-even the least particle! — Walt Whitman

The three sisters – corn, beans, squash- (and …my first published photograph)

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spoken word poetry

March 21, 2022 by posted by Mary C. M. Phillips

**LISTEN HERE**::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYm87GEYQA

In late 2020, after COVID had altered our lives — as it did for so many others — we decided to move from our home in Long Island to the bucolic hills of Pennsylvania.

TRANSPLANT is a spoken-word poem written just after we moved.

The poem asks a question. Does Nature herself hold memories as we do?

Hope you enjoy it.

Guitar work and production by Mark Phillips.

Transplant can be streamed on Spotify or downloaded from iTunes. The poem also appears, in written form, in the new anthology, The Pennsylvania Bards Eastern PA Poetry Review (available on amazon).

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