Temple of Warm Harmony

by Frank LaRue Owen

Overview

The Temple of Warm Harmony is a book of poems, but it is also something of a map. Some of the poems are about the author, some are about the reader, while other poems are about the times we're all living through. A blend of mini-exorcisms, healing incantations, dreams, and invitations to numinous ways of observing and experiencing life, the book is divided into three parts: In the World of Red Dust, Heartbreak and Armoring, and Entering The Temple of Warm Harmony. On the heels of his award-winning first book of poetry, The School of Soft-Attention, poet Frank LaRue Owen invites "fellow travelers" to consider ways we can regain a sense of harmony even while navigating challenging terrain, personally and collectively.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947003446
Publisher:	HOMEBOUND PUBN
Publication date:	08/06/2019
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Frank LaRue Owen's poetry is influenced by dreams, the energies of landscape and the seasons, archetypal psychology, the Ch'an/Daoist hermit-poet tradition, and Zen living. He studied for a decade with a Zen woman who—inspired by Ch'an and Daoist tradition—blended silent illumination (meditation), dreamwork, mountain-and-forest spirituality ("landscape practice"), and poetics into a unified path. Owen also studied eco-literature and eco-poetry with the late Jack Collom, a poet and professor in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Universityin Boulder, Colorado. His first book of poetry, The School of Soft-Attention, was the winner of the 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize.

Table of Contents

Preface xii

Introduction xv

In the World of Red Dust

Before Entering: Supplication 3

Void 6

Cyclical Tempering 9

Traipsing Past 10

Glimpse Through the Smoke 12

Hungry-Ghost Men, Feasting 13

Return 16

Dispensation & Knowing 18

Confession in the Trees 21

Eidolon Revisited 22

Blister and Resolve 25

Heart-Mind Sweeping Red Dust Mind 26

The Great Alliance 28

Heartbreak & Armoring

Love Will Defeat You 35

Allegiance 37

Samten Bardo 39

Ascension to Amaterasu 40

Seeing Beyond Emptiness 41

Sweet Wandering 45

Taoist Dream Intervention 50

All Around You Now 52

Mishirabe 55

Renewal 57

Yu: Apprenticing To Your Rainbow Body 58

Mountainwise Storehouse 61

Entering the Temple of Warm Harmony

Turn, Look 65

Original Instructions 67

Nest of Bones 68

Savor 71

Ascent 73

Fading…into…cloud-light 77

Of That 78

Spoken Word Temple 80

Call It What You Will 81

Buoyancy 83

Grandmother Light 85

Merging 87

Dharma Rain 89

Ascending Red Top Mountain 91

Teachings of the Seasons 93

Proximity 94

The Way I Approach Prayer in the City 96

Speechless 99

When the Great Pattern Leads You Home 101

Xian 102

Meditating on Heron 103

Instructions from A Weather-Beaten Branch 105

Acknowledgments

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