The Poetry of Mary E. Moore   

I’ve written a bit of poetry all my life but I had no idea how it was that I came to do this. My mother read poetry to me, and my grandmother loved to recite poetry, but I knew no one who wrote it. Then recently something wonderful happened! A cousin sent me a poem that my father had written to her mother when he was nineteen and she was fifteen. (See link at page bottom.) My father had been killed in a motor vehicle accident when I was two and I had known almost nothing about the kind of a person he was. Now here was a poem he had written in a voice which I recognized as being very close to my own. I like to think that all the time I’d been writing poetry, I’d been following in Dad’s footsteps.

I’ve had no formal education in poetry beyond that which I encountered in an undergraduate liberal arts program. Much of that faded away while I acquired a Ph.D. in Psychology and an M.D. with a specialty in Internal Medicine and a subspecialty in Rheumatology. Presently retired, during the last five years I’ve begun to educate myself, participating in a community school poetry workshop and joining the online workshop, Eratosphere, hosted by Able Muse. Beginning in June of 2005, I’ve attended the annual Poetry Conference sponsored by the West Chester University Poetry Center in West Chester, PA. I recommend both Eratosphere and the West Chester Poetry Conference to anyone especially interested in writing poetry in form (links at bottom of page).

I hope you’ll enjoy the sampling of my poems presented here. Just click on one of the categories on the right below to read some. At this point, a good many have been published in poetry journals and anthologies. A few have won prizes. I’ve listed the credits, if any, at the end of each poem. I welcome your comments concerning my work. If you scroll down this page, you’ll come to the Guest Book where you can sign in and record your thoughts or read what others have written. For more online poetry reading enjoyment, check out the magnificent collection of the work of many fine poets at The HyperTexts (link below). If you'd like to keep some of my poems in your library, you can purchase my chapbook “November Day” from Shadow Poetry (click on the small book cover below). The lovely color photograph on the cover of my book is the work of my nephew, Ted Kline. To see more of his photographs, click on his link below.