What I believe
A homepage is a visiting card in the global net. These pages have been designed by Silas Toball, an artist not only on paper and at the computer, but also in reality. He "wove" my poetry into the web.

Many friends helped me on my journey through life. My gratitude is theirs. My writing and singing is the echo of their friendship and love.
I see myself as a walker between the world of music and the world of literature. As a go-between among the cultures of the world, between kids and grown-ups.

Most people on this planet are not kids of the internet nor retired grown-ups of the computer. They do not have access to the virtual world. They fight for real survival. Real life still happens outside behind the door, not on screens. And there is so much to do, to bring some light and some love into the jungle of our civilization.

BABY-FAME
© 2004 Roland Zoss

OTHER – GREATER NAMES
HAVE WRITTEN NOVELS THAT SURVIVED EMPIRES
OTHER – GREATER NAMES
DEVOTED THEMSELVES ENTIRELY TO THE OTHER SEX
SCANNING IT PORE BY PORE WITH
THE MAGNIFYING GLASS OF THE ARTISTS WORD
MOST OF THESE MEN STOOD ON THEIR GROUND
AND HAD THEIR CHILD
BUT WHICH ONE LEFT
HIS WRITING-TABLE
INSTEAD OF HIS FAMILY?

WHICH ONE HAS
RENOUNCED FAME
FOR HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER'S SAKE
OR WRAPPED HER
IN HIS WARM AND TENDER PROSE?
WHICH ONE CARED
AS MUCH FOR HIS WIFE
AS FOR HIS FINEST MOST FAMOUS LINE?