Hallucinations
Skyhigh exltations, Deadly distress
1st Edition
Published on 30. May 2025
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Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-3-8192-7860-0 (ISBN)
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When my architectural work ended, D'Elle appeared, excelled in comm's and encouraged me with her assistance in writing dialogue. She became my heroine for themes in poetry, a friend, dedicated critique, and an inspiration. She encouraged my artistic endeavours to grow as a poet of love. Times with her became fantasy plays, with roleplay, a lively dialogue we enjoyed, and sparks of attraction between a poet and his muse. She became an artist's ideal interlocutor, always there to help and with concern for the wellbeing of her friend. D'Elle, of American-Irish extraction, lived some time in Alaska's wilderness, where she stayed with a partner, but soon moved to New York City, exchanging her adventurous life to a city dweller, having been successful at hunting and playing in a women's rugby team, becoming a professional nurse and starting a family.
At the same time I met a muse from Cologne, who engaged with me in extensive dialogue, especially interested in cemeteries, she visited all over Europe. She stirred in me dialogues about life and death, scenes recalling Edgar Allen Poe's scenarios of life and death.
The death through a most unfortunate accident of Lady Di, left an indelible mark on this poet feeling a deep shock about her terrible end, most dramatic, raising many questions with unsatisfactory answers. I dedicated a poem for her, Queen of the Hearts.
An extended row of events, sweet, seductive, painful, entertaining, passionate, and saddening haunted the poet at that time, especially a last true love that still lingers on the mind of this poet, an earth shaking erotic experience, rattling the poet's existence,
finishing him off to be through with love, at least for a long time.
Which Muse will follow now?
At the same time I met a muse from Cologne, who engaged with me in extensive dialogue, especially interested in cemeteries, she visited all over Europe. She stirred in me dialogues about life and death, scenes recalling Edgar Allen Poe's scenarios of life and death.
The death through a most unfortunate accident of Lady Di, left an indelible mark on this poet feeling a deep shock about her terrible end, most dramatic, raising many questions with unsatisfactory answers. I dedicated a poem for her, Queen of the Hearts.
An extended row of events, sweet, seductive, painful, entertaining, passionate, and saddening haunted the poet at that time, especially a last true love that still lingers on the mind of this poet, an earth shaking erotic experience, rattling the poet's existence,
finishing him off to be through with love, at least for a long time.
Which Muse will follow now?
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Born in Eastern Austria, close to the Hungarian border, he witnessed as a young man the horrors of a nation's brutal suppression, erupting in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He finished his education in art and architecture in Vienna, married, and sailed for the Cape of Africa, an adventure that followed his childhood dreams. He had drawn African animals for his art classes, but the time had come to see them in their natural habitat.
Meeting a varied facet of people and cultures, working as a draughtsman in an engineering office, and as an architect for a cultural centre, he made good use of his language skills travelling throughout Southern Africa.
During a trip to Lesotho, a native artist showed him rock paintings with their stark palimpsest outlines and typified movements of animals and humans. These paintings made a lasting impression on him and influenced his artistic work.
His vast collection of drawings and slides had been lost during a change of domiciles, but further studies of the San people would reawaken his dormant artistic longing for the expression of his art, filling sketchbooks with drawings and notepads with poetry and prose.
While revisiting the capitals of Europe, he sensed that the bond of art, being borderless and free, would reach across continents into the world.
During a visit to Greece, he was accepted into a circle of artists and poets who encouraged him to continue his art. A poetess introduced him to the works of famous Greek poets.to his creativity.
In South Africa, he joined the writing and poetry workshops of Writers Write. It was to open the floodgates to his creativity. He decided to travel through Greece and visit its sites of antiquity, read up on Classical mythology, and enjoy first-class translations of Greek poetry and prose.
He settled in 2013/14 in Klosterneuburg-Weidling. Poet Nikolaus Lenau is buried here. Franz Kafka had visited here. Their writings will always be an inspiration.