Ryan Oelke

Photos from “Love’s Invitation”

Here's a slideshow of behind-the-scene photos from "Love's Invitation". Photos by Hokai Sobol and Jason Digges. Watch the film here and read the poem, "Echoes of Your Heart", that is heard at the end of the film.

Echoes of Your Heart

(Featured in my short film, "Love's Invitation", winner of Best Screenplay) As I held your hand, I felt the last breath leave your lips, Taking my tenderness with it. Buried under emptiness, I only prayed for the sun To lovingly scorch my body, So that I might be...

Shootout Boulder 2009

This weekend the lovely film crew I worked with on Sex, God, Rock 'n Roll will be shooting a short film for the Shootout Boulder Film Festival. I wrote a short script that stars Stuart Davis and Hokai Sobol. We'll have to adapt it a little when the festival starts...

Pieces of Lovers Passed

I went into my past machete in hand to gather pieces of old lovers, a perfect creation I hoped to stitch together with fear, but something wasn't right... I couldn't breathe life into my creation, and beauty passed as I stood waiting...

Blossoms of Ineffability

I could never exhaust this poetry that blossoms from my heart watered by your ineffable Divine Beauty.

Forgotten Tenderness

One night, a lonely star called my name its beauty and light filled my heart A forgotten tenderness burst from my chest I did not know if I lied upon it traversing the heavens or if it took me as its flight gently guiding my vulnerability with its love.