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
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
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged #spokenword, encouragement, holly poem, Inspirational, mark phillips mandolin, mary cm phillips, poetry, rock n soul gospel, seasons poetry, WCWP, Winter poem, writing on January 25, 2023| 6 Comments »
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).
(more…)Posted in Uncategorized, tagged mark phillips guitar, mary cm phillips, pennsylvania, poetry, poetry community, spoken word on March 21, 2022| 8 Comments »
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).
Some links I like:
Jane Austen - Backstories (blog)
Mary C. M. Phillips 