Poem about me and my work, by Rupert Loydell, May 2016

TAKING FLIGHT

for Kate



You still have that energy I have lost,

do not possess now any more.

You'll commandeer an exhibition space

and spend the weekend talking

to strangers and an audience

you've summoned through the internet,

by word-of mouth, friends of friends

or those who might be interested.



You follow your own inner path,

the line of your eye, the map

I have lost. It gets you nowhere,

gets you noticed, gets me every time.

Your life is pinned to the wall,

a work in progress. Birds peck into

your head and heart, then take flight

above this dirty Cornish town.



© Rupert M Loydell