David Barry Temple

Unnatural Beauty David Barry Temple

In his second poetry collection, inspired by the Han River and life in Taichung, Taiwan, the poet delves deeper into the undercurrent as an expat on the island of Taiwan with a collection of eighty poems written in 2015-2018. With his philosophical anarchism, disdain for material wealth, and love of liberty, in the tradition of Han Shan, the naturalist Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty, he refuses to live in a world of pretense and disregarded of nature. The author would sooner ride out into an intermittent rain knowing someone awaits inspiration, that he is the agent of that inspiration. Life to him is for learning, for the golden rules of a brighter world, "for the cloudburst of sudden wind and rain to replenish the Han River waters," reminding us that comfort for the righteous stays put, because around the next billow of heavy passing moisture, there is a rainbow.