Love & Art is about a poet's creative workshop, where a poem follows a drawing or a drawing turns into a poem in an artistic cross-pollination. The poet offers these songs and the enclosed art in a series of volumes to all art lovers of this specific genre, he poet also calls ballads, as he often sang them, following his favourite interpreters and songwriters, together with one of his friends or muses, while he kept creative contacts with these 'birds of a feather' worldwide, celebrating with sweet 'Songs of Passion' in the heydays of happiness, but also with bitter tasting ballads of 'Ten Passion Songs' of life's darker moments. The poet, who is on a journey with an extended form of the traditional ballad, describes his life with a group of fellow poets and artists who partook in his creative workshops and poetry jam-sessions with a poetry club in San Francisco, USA, also including an actress who performed at a stage in Wiesbaden, Germany. In 'Secret Affairs', a homage to his friends in the world of art, he'll honour them with his 'Songs of Passion', who accompanied him on this thrill of an emotional roller coaster ride. Fascinated by Agi, a 40 year old woman with an erotic potential, just as the dark innocence of a Florida teen, besides the exotic birds from the web's world wide garden. He agreed with his muse, Athena: love is universal, no power on earth could ever lock it out, or let its magic flow dry up, and no way to stop the powers of its dynamic flow. 27 drawings, in the artist's unique style, expand on the poetry. With 'Ten Passion Songs': love is death, is death love? the poet reflects on his experience of an aftermath's drama of star crossed lovers, his despair of a great love's loss, and his dark thoughts about his life that had come to a sudden end. Yet, again with the help of his encouraging poetry friends, he found his way back to a positive life again. In 'electronic round dance', his befriended poetesses will dance with him having assured that the
