Walter W Hoelbling

Walter W Hoelbling Dec 2018

emancipated couple (a.k.a. aspects of emancipation)

after a tasty  lunch
& and extensive joyous afternoon chats
     with her women friends
while he was doing the dishes
she had no words left for him

so they started
       their smart phones and Kindles
and relaxed in their separate worlds

Walter W Hoelbling Nov 2018

art international

colorful paint
on a blue canvas
runs down in strings

crossing borders & languages
flowing into hearts and minds
slowly
at ease

the bottom end
of the canvas
is not the end
of the message

Inspired by a computer graphic of Waltraud Mohoric at password.or.at/showpic.php?pid=457

Walter W Hoelbling Nov 2018

new world Italians

lost in alien space
Italians
posted their home culture
and worked for it

today
America

and the whole western world

would starve to death
without pasta pizza
and Michelangelo

Inspired by a graphic of Renée Gadsden on password.or.at
http://password.or.at/images-01.php?aid=17&lan=

Walter W Hoelbling Nov 2018

maelström

grey and black
and powerful

its pointed cone
***** in
all shapes and colors

we do not know
how
where
if

they come back

Inspired by graphics of Moje Menhardt on password.or.at/.php?pid=545

Walter W Hoelbling Nov 2018

butterflies

silhouettes
black on grey
struggle
against their dark weight

wings beating
wildly
to avoid
the crash

Inspired by a graphic of Lei Feng on password.or.at/showpic.php?pid=203

Walter W Hoelbling Nov 2018

beyond

a colorful river of words
flows out of the cave
towards an ocean
under azure sky

will it diffuse
in the blue
waves of the sea

or

stake out
in distinctive colors
a current of meaning

Inspired by a computer graphic by Maria Luisa Grimani on password.or.at/showpic.php?pid=281

Walter W Hoelbling Nov 2018

reflections

reflections
of reflections
backlit by fire
and glaring light
in a world upside down
where masks reign

green

in its circumference
of mirrored silhouettes
that seem to be
looking for something
elsewhere

Inspired by a graphic of Waltraud Mohoric on password.or.at/showpic.php?pid=459