Book #1 of 4
of the poetry book series:
Season of Fours
by
Richard Del Connor
Raves for Richard Del Connor's
Autumn Flavours poetry book
With the guidance of a wise person, I would be much wiser than I am."
---Richard Del Connor, Montrose, California.
4 DECADES OF LOVE
THE ANTICHRIST
BUDDHA KUNG FU STUDENT MANUAL
COMBAT TAIJI
CONNOR BLACK HOLE BUBBLE THEORY
COYOTE IN A GRAVEYARD
HISTORY OF ZEN FROM A TO Z
HOLOCAUST OF MAN
HUMAN VALUES FOR SUCCESS IN FAMILY & BUSINESS
KUNG FU COWBOY ORIGINAL DRAFT
LOVE, ALWAYS & FOREVER!
MASONIC KUNG FU BOOK 1
THE POTATOE VALENTINE & OTHER LOVE POEMS
RAINBOW IN THE SHADE
SEASON OF FOURS
SHAOLIN GONGFU INITIATE
SHAOLIN KUNG FU BEGINNER
SHAOLIN KUNG FU INTERMEDIATE
SID'S PLACE
SPRING FEVERS
STAFF BASICS
SUMMER FOREVERS
TAI CHI BEGINNER
TAI CHI INTERMEDIATE
UTAH - PHASE 1
WINTER FLOWERS
ZEN SPIRIT BOOK
Autumn Flavours
Book
#1 of 4
of the poetry book series:
Season of Fours
by Richard Del Connor
(Written during
the early 1970s, before becoming "The Hippy Coyote" in
1984)
Founder of Shaolin Records and Record Producer-Musician of
American Zen.
Visit www.AutumnFlavors.com
and www.SeasonOfFours.com
Autumn Flavours - Poetry by The
Coyote
First Season of Four Seasons of The Hippy Coyote's Life
by
Richard Del Connor
Published by Shaolin Communications
818-723-2769
publisher@shaolinCOMMUNICATIONS.com
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This book, or parts of this book, may
not be reproduced in any form
without written permission from the
publisher.
Edited and typeset by Richard Del
Connor.
Publisher: Richard D. Connor
Smashwords Edition
3RD EDITION released October 10,
2011.
This is Book
#1 of the 4-book poetry
series, SEASON OF FOURS.
For the entire series,
visit www.SeasonOfFours.com
First Edition released in 1993, Salt Lake City,
Utah.
2nd Edition: PDF released 2006 of scanned notebook with
author notes.
Author: Richard Del Connor
Musician name:
"The Hippy Coyote"
Richard Del Connor was classically trained in music and singing. In 1967 Richard traded in his trombone for an electric guitar. The poem, "The Sun," was a homework assignment of 1968, after he'd been experimenting with LSD. Each of American Zen's first five albums contain many recorded orated poems. On the LEVEL 3 album, Coyote invented "Bass Poetry." On LEVEL 4 = Kung Fu Cowboy PART 2: 3rd Degree Master Mason, Coyote invented "Psychedelic Poetry" by recording an oration of the same poem three times then playing them at the same time, staggered, with a psychedelic guitar solo bouncing from speaker to speaker...
POETRY
Smashwords ebook ISBN:
978-1-57551-318-8
8 7 6 5 4
For updates about "Coyote" visit www.CoyotePodcast.com/
Autumn Flavours
Table of Contents
to the darkness I emerged from.
Richard Del Connor has always enjoyed poetry. Oddly, none of his friends, peers, or parents had much interest in poetry. Where did this passion for poetry and desire to create it come from? We don't know. Richard's desire to be a musician may have been instigated by his mother, but by age 10, he was on his own, and still practicing daily. When he was 13, with an electric guitar, he decided that he could only go to the beach two or three days per week, because he needed to practice his guitar more.
Here it is: Richard Del Connor's first book of poetry, completed about 1974, Autumn Flavours. (He was still using many of the British spellings he'd been required to use in Newfoundland, where he graduated High School.)
For more information about Richard Del Connor:
(Author, poet, record
producer)
www.RichardDelConnor.com
www.DickieDare.com
For more information about books and music by The
Hippy Coyote and American
Zen:
www.americanZEN.org
www.HippyCoyote.com
For more information about poetry and podcasts by
Coyote:
www.CoyotePoetry.com
www.ZenPup.com
For more information about books and products
released by Shaolin
Communications:
www.shaolinCOMMUNICATIONS.com
www.shaolinRECORDS.com
AUTUMN FLAVOURS
Third step out
__from darkness into
fire
Finding potions of the ground
The good cups if were never
lying
A taste which I smell
Sour, yet almost
bittersweet
I feel it rough and soft
Stuck in between my
teeth
Of a memory recurring, again and again
I choked on as a
child -- I remember when
__like the rotting leaves carpet moist
soil
__the smell so rank of life gone spoiled
Was Autumn's
cologne, a food for worms
Decaying histories, mistakes relearned
A
taste from before, I'll savour again
Calmly barefoot I trod
through the graveyard of sin