The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

Here are two poems I wrote. I’ve been really prolific and have been producing a poem a day thereabouts. I am taking today off because I have job interviews all day and I don’t want to get into an emotional headspace. Poetry can dredge up emotion and repressed feelings, so I don’t want that in the way of performing well on camera. Anyway, I hope you enjoy these two poems…

I try to be kind to other people as one of my core values. It’s something I’m working on every day and trying to get better at. Each evening I do a loving kindness meditation where I think about people I care about and focus on good intentions for them. Yesterday I gave my unemployed friend 60 dollars for groceries because they are really struggling financially. That was sort of my donation for the week. The week before I donated money to the Oregon Dachshund Rescue.

Right now I’m really focussed on helping a friend in particular who is going through a hard time. They really appreciate snuggling with my dog and being at my house because they find it peaceful. So I’ve been inviting them over several times a week for the afternoon. Yesterday I treated them to dinner and my husband fixed their computer. I guess that’s an act of kindness I am actively doing. It feels good to help them out in the small way I can.

I have two job interviews today. One at 9am and one at 1pm. The one at 1pm is a second interview and is an hour and a half long, and the morning one is a first interview and is an hour. I’m feeling fairly confident. I can pretend to be a completely normal person for interviews. That doesn’t make me a bad worker once I do get a job, I do my best and work hard, but I need to come off as normal as possible when I am interviewing to make a good impression. I need to seem outgoing, friendly, and easy going. I am a friendly person and fairly easy going, that part is true, but I am not outgoing and am usually intensely quiet. I have to put on a conversational, casual vibe and that is the performance part of things. I can’t come off as the intensely shy person I am.

Here is a poem my friend wrote that I liked…

Flower 

I am a flower. On this earth for a short time. 

I am the femme-fatale of the natural world. I come in such varieties. 

Every bee cannot resist me. I am the lover without strings or expectations. 

I satisfy and am satisfied. I do not feel hampered by tight or loose morals.  

 Though other plants may hate and even scorn me, I make the wheel of the world go round and the birds and the bees fuck with abandon. I do not carry any disease. I am the party girl, the red woman, the call girl of spring time and I like it.