“Ventures in Nothing”
Sumi ink and gold ink on rice paper
13 x 9.5 inches | 33 x 24 cm
January 20, 2013
Ventures in Nothing
Outside the gates of bliss
Resides the money changers
Ready to assist in the gleaning of materialism
Like Wall Street smoke and mirrors
The paper dream scurries across the landscape
Elusive as carbon
Elusive as gold
In the illusion
While the pilgrim invests
In ventures in nothing
Oliver Loveday © October 16, 2013 3:08pm EDT
“Nothing Unmarked”
Sumi ink and gold ink on rice paper
13 x 9.5 inches | 33 x 24 cm
January 20, 2013
Nothing Unmarked
She blows in like Woody Herman and His Thundering Herd jazz jam wail across the abyss woolen skies wrapped up in shades of black or gold in between the nothing of whiteness where there is no mind left to dream only float like a cloud as we look down into the slant of silence marked and measured with inches of splash or brush marks punching holes in the sky between what is left and what was never imaged in the fragile edge of rice paper maps of where we were and where we can never be again against the wind of patterns escaped deleted spindled and mutilated
Oliver Loveday © October 16, 2013 1:45pm EDT
“Bliss Dance”
Sumi ink and gold ink on rice paper
13 x 9.5 inches | 33 x 24 cm
January 20, 2013
Bliss Dance
Aching in the moment
Swirl of awareness
Like the madman
Seeking the stability of concrete reality
But it is all in flux
And there is nothing
But the pain and beauty
Of this bliss dance
Between atom and energy
Between galaxy and fertile nebula
Time and space
Against the empty
Oliver Loveday © October 16, 2013 12:40pm EDT
“Wind over the Bridge”
Sumi ink and gold ink on rice paper
13 x 9.5 inches | 33 x 24 cm
January 5, 2013
Wind over the Bridge
Arriving through the clouds
Passing beyond Cold Mountain
The pilgrim looks down into the valley
Where the land of empty fields lies beyond
A river between this and nothing
A bridge that challenges all fears
And in the sky
The winds flow freely
Oliver Loveday © October 16, 2013 11:10am EDT
