“Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus by Waterhouse”
“Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.”–Gene Fowler.
Milton Dodd = Poet
born 1975<i
“Poetry is the highest expression through words of our subjective and collective feelings, thoughts and imagination.
Poetry endures and has universal appeal (every culture speaks or writes poetically) because poetry restlessly explores the great feelings and debates that unite and intrigue humankind. We instantly resort to imagery, simile, rhythm and rhyme as we search beyond everyday language to give thoughts a kind of grace.”–The Need for Words (voice and the text) by Patsy Rodenburg
A. Poetry
Realization
by Milton B. Dodd 1991
I scoffed at silly poetry written to me
by people I disliked.
I mocked their stupid verses sarcastically
And reduced their stuff to an ugly ripped sight.
So must you rip and tear
my works in ridicule of their childishness,
Throwing their remains in the air
And laugh, watching them float to rest.
Like spoiled prince and princess
I, as do you,throw off ones who love me
And look for challenge, not solace,
from ones I love who write no poetry.
Can we ever learn
to appreciate those
whose desires for us burn?
Can we return feelings even close
to those we recieve
or should we not try?
Should we just leave
And let them die?
Shall we take advantage
of love given and not earned?
Or play the competeing game of age
where we can put to use lines learned?
May we at least realize our opportunities,
And objectives, and feelings of others and ourselves
So considered decisions please
us and leave no hearts on shelves.
Untitled by Milton Dodd 1991 UVA
Lost in the cat’s eye,
Betrayed by partnership,
the little child is dead
as she jumps rope.
Her friend stares at
madness closing in
with recognition
and is silent.
Fear by Milton Dodd 1991 UVA
Fear is the moon,
Always following
in my peripheral blind spot.
Running beside
Even in a car at 60mph
heading to Mississippi
Bright as midnight
consuming the world.
Taste by Milton Dodd 1991 UVA
Feed the spear,
let the blade lick with shiny smoothness.
Touch it lightly to tender thigh
and let it taste salty skin.
Dragonfly by M. Dodd 1991 UVA
Insane, burning white dragonfly
protecting playfully imaginary territory
with wild swoops.
Catching up friends
to join in frenzy,
disturbing nothing but wind
in diving and swirling madness.
Struggle by M. Dodd 1991 UVA
Running through the doorways
of fear,
Trampling down the street
being pursued by a
murderous green Pinto.
Tripping on the monstrously big
sidewalk.
Struggling to rise and
falling under the tires.
In Cherokee en-route to Miss. from UVA Writer’s Workshop by Milton Dodd 1991
Writer's Workshop to Mississippi
Last night, I said good-bye to the writer’s workshop. I ran around saying good-bye to each suite individually. I spent the most time in Suite 330, of course.
They were all crying except Cecilia who was smiling gently at me. I was smiling back. I love her. Earlier, she had given me a letter that contained a poem about me that she requested I not read until I left. I gave her a black hard back book of some of my favorite original poems which I asked her to use to record her favorite writings also. I wrote her a page in the front. I kissed Megan, then went down one floor and kissed Gillian. Megan was pretty sloppy; actually very. Gillian was great to kiss; very controlled.
Ann Hudson, the counselor kissed me closed mouth for a bit on the lips. (in retrospect, I think this statement is a cover-up, that she kissed me open-mouthed, if I remember correctly)
Suite 330 followed me around as I did my good-bye rounds. They cried forever. Tamara said I was the greatest guy she’d ever met and they all said they loved me.
Irritation 10/1986 MBD
Irritation
Is the poker
That stirs the logs
of my mind
Into a menacing fire.
Concrete by Milton Dodd
Concrete, stained by soiled feet,
Passes beneath my shoes
As I trudge through a thick mist
Of dreary, damp fog.
Suddenly, I am upon the doorstep of a great house.
The fog
Which has enveloped me
Now disperses into small clouds to regroup in another spot.
Confusion takes over my brain.
There had been some sense of security in the blanket of vapor.
Now, totally lost in my fright,
I stagger into the unknown realm of the strange domicile.
Confusion evaporates
as I find myself shaking hands vigorously with a smiling old man.
Taking in comments such as
“My you’ve grown.”
with a modest smile.
I sit and rest.
I feel tired.
As though I have run for hours.
Pegasus Less One Wing
Pegasus
less one wing
no more flying;
perhaps he’ll sing.
Something
to return the attention
he had
in his previous condition.
Dancing
is out of the question,
his balance is gone
and wings dragging create friction
Parades
don’t welcome him;
people liked seeing his wings
when he could lift both of them.
Sports
never were his strength,
but he tried one and was
taken off the polo team at length.
Song,
he finds interestingly
easy for him,
lets him express himself freely.
Audiences
could enjoy his singing
Possibly more than
watching his winging.
Pegasus
less one wing,
no more flying,
perhaps he’ll sing
MBD.
Sacrifice by MBD, 10-25-1990
Fire flickers
Glowing bright,
rippling like seas untamed…
Scented smoke fills the night
Even as it rains.
Wind persists,
While souls join,
become one,
intertwine.
And I alone
stand and watch
mixing hatred with
sunshine.
Snow in May by MBD 5-25-1987
A star shines bright in the day.
The tulips open to the moon.
Snow in May.
“Why,” you ask,
“Is there snow on the grass?”
“Why must it snow in May?”
The moon is getting cheated
And the tulips are being decieved,
But there is no explaination
For this precipitation!
Creatures of Dreams by MBD 10-1987
I cast the illumination
of my unbreakable, Garrity flashlight
upon the concave, smooth surface
which my curiousity has brought me to see:
the great upside-down world
of the cave fairies.
immortal creatures of love.
Touched by the magic of Orpheus’ lyre,
they erect wonderful castles in his regard,
their enormous turrets hanging resolutely.
Below, the underworld elves
scurry and play on the cold floor.
Being more wary of humans
they choose smaller architecture
providing more time to find good hiding places.
Living only on cave nectar and eyeless fish,
their bodies are thin enough to slither
through the tightest places.
But these are just creatures of dreams.
I click off my light in disappointment
and lie down silently, listening to nothing.
“A poet always writes of his personal life, in his finest work out of tragedy, whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness.”—W.B. Yeats
Sand Desert, Seven Days by MBD
Sand desert.
Seven days from
yesterday’s oasis,
flask and blade tethered
with horse hair braid
under wraps to my shoulders.
Sidewinder stricken, in
devil oven I stayed baking,
murmur eyed,
witnessing the venom,
the serpent escaping.
Sinning by suffering,
I gluttoned the sun’s
crucifixion. Heat grew
night, the air held my
temperature. Cold claws
bled my nipple. A lizard
tread rib to chest to rib
to land to wavering glance,
scampering sight.
Dispassionate, the sweltering
succession of nightless day
and dayless night, my eyes
open to darkness, closed to
light.
Sand desert.
Seven days from yesterday’s oasis,
bang soaked brow, wetted garbs,
boiling dew my attire through.
Sidewinder stricken, in devil
oven I stayed baking,
burnt side, I lay aching,
shuddering asphyxiation, eyeing
broken crystal vision.
Heaped limb, energy still
leaving every pore, I was
fire, fever smoking; Bethel,
7 miles out.
Sand desert,
Seven days from
yesterday’s oasis, gull-less
water-less dunes; my
waked iris imbibes their
contours.
Sidewinder stricken, in
devil oven I stayed baking,
rising on wilted legs,
embracing a fiction
horizon, to summon
a distant caravan
crossing the desert sand.
Sand desert.
Seven days from yesterday’s oasis,
dawn’s luminescence,
my rest.
Sidewinder stricken,
in devil oven I stood,
beastly shaken, lamenting
my swollen fang
ankle.
Every nomad eye bloodied,
my shameful inquiry
revealing catastrophe.
their elderly, their children,
massacred by nothern horsemen,
they fed and nursed me.
Sand desert.
Seven days from yesterday’s oasis,
the heavens my lodestone
guide me south-east
en-route the Dead Sea.
Sidewinder stricken, in
devil oven, I witnessed
snakes in basket
young crying virgin
dancing in dusk’s blanket.
Sand desert.
Seven days from
yesterday’s oasis, my steps
pawing a dotted trail on
tan ocean.
Sidewinder stricken,
strengthened, I silently
saw off my saviors,
the meandering colony
who appeared to me.
Blessed and holy, their
sorrowed traveling realm.
alone, the Dead Sea
finally upon me, its
shores welcoming and
vast, I fast and wash
in salt water.
note to seven days: “7 days from yesterday’s oasis” means it would take a week to go back the way we came in one day, i.e. takes longer to go up a mountain than come down one MBD
Watching Baseball by Milton Dodd 7-19-1988
Character lines her face.
Her spine curves with age.
Dark skin.
Vietnamese.
Four foot two,
the size diminishing
each year.
Sitting.
Sitting and
Watching baseball.
Watching her grandson play.
She speaks no English
Only half understands the game.
Watches as her grandson swings.
Watches as he walks back off the field.
Watches it happen over and over.
She knows not what it means.
Good?
Bad?
She can’t tell.
The game is finished.
She walks to him
and whispers in Vietnamese,
“You did well,”
He smiles and holds her hand.
Behind the Couch by MBD 10:05 pm 9-16-2009
Before I wore cleats for Mustang,
I lay or sat behind the couch–
The baseball game on TV in front of the seats.
The channel wouldn’t change.
I’d play with G.I.Joe or Matchbox cars
And listen to audience and announcers
When they cheered, my emotions would stir.
And I’d feel great for the team, whoever they were.
To put it too simply by MBD
To put it too simply,
in her company
my thoughts are free,
my eyes can see,
I can be
me.
To say it too lightly,
by her side
I confide,
I don’t hide…
I laughed but could have cried.
Basically,
in her eyes
I think no lies,
My lonely sighs
exist only in our good-byes
Soul Shape-Shifter by Milton Dodd
A lone Native
clipping the Eagle’s wings
for headdress.
What has he to trade for communion?
A dance stick
bound in leather, fur, antler? no.
He’s animal fusion,
on bird’s blood he gets high;
re-creation, soul animation.
His vision is evolving.
Sometimes,
his sight is black and white,
the eyes of a predator.
In howling loneliness,
the wolf again sees
familiar earth in biped
rebirth.
Occasionally,
he snorts fear with a quick jump
and dashs to a near thicket.
Behind the stump, the deer
uses the native’s ear
as human encampment.
Lately,
he’s been grazing,
meandering in swaying
hills of long grass,
the buffalo lets time pass,
waiting to
this miniscule form
outlast.
This is the man’s hallmark,
This is his thanks given:
His mind to wander, His body to live in.
His self no longer dark for wildfire.
Dragons are Human by MBD
Sensory intraception
reveals hidden deception.
Who is your mother?
Mine breathes fire.
She eats rasberry children.
Oh, Terror, Terror,
Mother, Mother,
What is your treasure?
Dig This by MBD
There are tiny spiders stepping the sidewalks with tat-tat feet. Listen to ‘em, you’ll hear tin cans crinkling down the street.
I am the sanest man.
“He was out, man, I mean like this,” the speaker leans back and cuts her eyes to demonstrate,”And he started mumbling. I started listening. He was rambling about how the moon gets all it’s light from a star…And how when he’s with this girl he feels like a midnight, an orange moon.”
Ann Muse by MBD
I want to write a book for you. I want to include everything I believe in and make a masterpiece that You can relate to, enjoy, get scared of, love. My brain is light blue clay, stick your hands in my head, mold me into liquid, spin me in the air, a circle here, a triangle there, give me your genuine creation.
I am going insane
but I’ve so few profanities
I may become famous…
Incredulous, Incredulous!
My hands may be on fire soon.
I busted a lighter
trying to knock the ash out of a bowl
and I have it’s juice all over my hands.
One cigarette for me is fire for my fingers.
Jim Morrison, I miss you,
and how your knotted words
ran through my veins,
Come back, Indian.
I’ve convinced myself that…”I’ve been down so goddamn long that it looks like up to me.”-Jim Morrison
Two Days Ago by MBD
In front of me
(me in the window)
in a sparse pine,
a sleeping Night Heron
woke, looked at me…
Good morning,
I am awake
tell me something of yourself…
He blinked, bobbed his head…
Two days ago,
in the early blur,
I frantically
clapped my hands and growled
To try to run
a bird away
(he nests in a tree,
seems intimidating,
condescending, discriminating)…
Cocked his shoulder,
his wing swallowed
his beak and head,
Rubbed inner feathers
about his eye,
Stood Erect,
daggers
for plummage…
In the sparkled air,
I spread my arms
and fully embodied a predator
salivating, girating
in barking gusts…
Towered neck,
(ruffled feathered)
with wild motion,
an omnipotent facade
shook, threw out his wild presence,
shook my marrow.
Not of Hurt by MBD
Pain did not occur to me as the fist collided with my chin. My first reaction was not one of hurt but of retaliation and aggression, countering one blow with many. Pinning him against the tiled wall, I did not think of the fact that only a moment ago we two had been playing tag with his friends. I thought of pounding, smashing, splattering him into the wall on which he leaned. As he broke away, I didn’t think of how he had reached to shake my hand with one of his and punched me with the other. I thought of chasing after him, bringing him down, pounding, smashing, splattering him into the ground on which he ran. As I stood alone, grimacing, crying tears of adrenalin, I did not think.
Birds and Blood by Milton Dodd
Persons of feather and dagger,
who hide fathoms of hair
in braids and folds of secrecy,
who keep ancient skins
encrusted in clay and unseen,
who unspeakingly chant
evocations of earth, sky, fire and water,
in silent symphony with
wooden drums and sculpted bells,
Persons of feather and dagger,
I wear a wolfskin for the hunt.
I burn coyote dung in straw.
I look for the buzzard and the hawk
and I listen for the nightingale call.
Persons of feather and dagger,
who meander with no tee-pee,
hoot as an owl,
signal me in my adobe;
Together we enter lands of
mountain and tree.
Pamphlet Security by Milton Dodd, High School
All is safe
the merchandise is hidden
the entertainment is here
and the savior will be arriving shortly.
Caught you scribbling on the page again.
Keep your pamphlet, here’s lunch.
Are your sunrises lightening?
A despairingly apparent loss in my perception has afflicted me. Let this hole in my reality not be. An absence ofaffection for any of my close relations decries my world of fiction perfectly.
School is where I go and sit by people I do not want to know and thank God they don’t understand me. School is hell and I don’t care. Walk each bell and get nowhere. Set me free. Redundancy. When there’s nowhere else to see, when there’s no one left to be.
Last Friday I smoked an 1/8th with three friends.
We took codeine.
I took four
and we crushed the rest and
toked a harsh mixture of resin and codeine.
Zoom, pop, splat.
I did not move to the dead world, I sat.
In occasional sickness,
I feel I’m vomiting knives
and every spoken
or written word
is a blade.
Senses hate the word, “thing>”
Not just words, language communicating.
Not clinical analyses in philosophical parenthesis.
Imagery
serves a function
in my escapeism.
You see, it hurts me to define like
this, using specific, dry terms
because really imagery sets me
back in descriptive lust, eyes
rolled like the great white
(chunk taut muscle).
And I can taste my pen as ink drools bloody
to the paper.
An added emphasis, gutteral and
visible for the reader (I hope).
You’ve heard of mental vs.
physical ecstasy, most likely.
When I’m writing well, or have
completed a worthy piece in
my opinion
my breathing is heavy and
my neck hairs prickle nearly
orgasmically.
Imagery is simply an additive
to the stanza/meaning
recipe.
My barrels are burdens.
My facade is a mirror.
Yourself you see.
Animals in the Garden by Milton Dodd
Huxley,
Your Brave New World
existed in 1932.
Orwell,
1984
appeared in 1949.
Worlds borne of thought
grow, nevertheless.
All is reality.
All is insanity.
Creation.
Ingeniously inked.
Many books are bibles
to enclosed worlds.
John 1:1,
“In the beginning was the word, and the word was
with God, and the word was God.”
New beginnings
are time’s trinkets,
toy with this idea:
where is your dominion?
Have you commanded
light and life?
I believe I’ve begun
as Adam did, to name
the animals
in the garden.
Communications 1986 Milton Dodd
When my feelings are shattered
And broken to pieces,
I retreat to my room
To write with my mind
And send a telegraph
to my broken heart.
Dust Jacket (for Ann, Pauline and Rene)
Ann McDonald-left, Pauline Kusiak-right, Rene Rogers-top, Myself in red
Before
I learned the rule of thumb
that poetry is nothing about a poem,
the first work I wrote
described wearing a poet’s coat.
Then,
I let the reader know
the colors of the rainbow,
the varied oils and pastels
which in sleeves and cotton dwell.
Now,
not I wear for show
not to break storm wind’s blow,
but the fibers in this heavy material
have embraced my skin until my burial.
Today,
all is intensive effort
and hope for brilliant export.
I formulate a descriptive potion
and entertain a foreign notion.
Perhaps,
in cramp-fingered search for perfection,
or with mental erection,
describing the gnarled and fruited tree,
I’ll taste a hint of ecstasy.
My Grateful Dead Girl mbd
She,
panting with eyes wide,
dances in and out
a drawn dirt circle.
He stands within, wild hair
circumferences his face
His breath is hers.
In My Ear mbd
A little world running in my ear
of pulsating brush-strokes,
blurring colors. Dynamic expression.
The world ripples with Arabian moans as
power pulls my eyes wide.
An interlude an interlude
an interlude a moment.
The Atlantic waves rupture
a continent’s civilization of pillars.
Stands of conifer and pecan,
Juxtaposed and shifting, bleed orange, red, green. Monks, naked in blue-skyed winter, hint spring, summer. Murmur your destiny. Whose life is the hardy bear? I’m not sure this has been discernible, but I’ve no resistance to the distanced existance. Eyes wide or cut, the sky’s black and red. The week is checkered with unchronicled silence and winter duck’s wings, dusk, dawn.
The x-ray shows an open lidded trunk of ancient scripture just beneath your cerebellum. You are the luckiest man in literature eternity. Still the focused facade of a fool. Enter, the lost-eyed scatterbrain, talk your bullshit, amuse your eye, toy with your situation’s sanity, your knives are only probes. Beware the paper, idiot. It is a mountain pool, black-blue reflection, distorted. It is a desert dune, wind and sand, shifting. Idiot, confine your world.
What’s your name? Loneliness. In here loneliness is an intermission. The maple leaf flutters in sweeps of perfume and pauses at the curb. Rest and age before rejuvenation and animation, with wind gusting once more. Where is the warmth, the fire, the love seat? Only static on the telephone. The radio says nothing, but holds in puppeteer hands my arteries, my bobbing head, my dead body. Paper is just clutter on my desk, where is a cigarette? For the past three years I’ve been plotting to kill my dog. Mother, a jittered authority. Father, indignant disappointment. Alone, alone. How I jumble my thoughts and expressions and confuse you all. Speak to me and you’ll see I’m nothing I appear to be. Satisfied, however, I am. Alone, alone. In here loneliness is an intermission.
Someth’n by MBD 1988
I saw someth’n on the road last night.
I saw someth’n in the air.
Lookin’ real close at the thing on the road–
It gave me quite a scare.
It had one dislocated eye,
A humungus purple nose,
Teeth which were razor sharp,
and two yellow toes.
But, what was in the air?
I must confess,
I really do not care.
The Yellow Pad and the Black/White Journals
The Photographer
by Milton Dodd
If there were any way to explain the pleasure I feel while Photographing homicides , I would explain the misplaced emotion. But, since one has not occured to me I shall instead relate the actions and feelings produced. I enjoyed sitting on fire ecapes or rooftops watching for and at death, completely alone with my camera. I worked nights only; I quickly found the city’s hotspots and patrolled the alleys and narrow, ill-lit streets. For such a big city, it wasn’t hard to find death in the shadows. It didn’t lurk there quietly. It jumped and shouted, it flailed and screamed, it fell and bled. It followed two men into the back alleys. It raced after a gang who found a queer to chase, it slid in and out of a rapists mind as he threw his prey to the ground. It was everywhere and I had captured it. Infra-red yanked two men stabbing in the shadows out of the darkness, wide angle caught gangs in the act of killing, and with zoom I could direct my attention to the intricatre parts of rape/killing. After some practice, I learned to snap the picture at just the right moment as the blood squirted high in the air, looking like some beautiful abstract painting. Thinking of these pictures as an art sickened me…Nevertheless, enjoy it I did. And every night I came home with a grin splattered across my face like a huge gash spilling the blood of laughter. Each morning, in guilt, I puncture some part of my body with a stapler, a knife, or a razor, already my chest resembles that of one who is slowly pressed through a barbed wire fence. The scars are a constant annoyance and often I sit and watch, fascinated, at blood trickling from peeled scabs. My love of blood has escalated from a small liking to a great passion.
On His High-Horse
by mbd 8-02-1988
There he is,
Sittin’ on his high horse,
Mindin’ his own business,
keepin’ to himself.
No,
He don’t want no trouble,
Just wants to sit there
On his horse.
He reaches down
To pet his beautiful steed
But feels nothing…
No warm hair,
No solid, sturdy body.
Nothing.
Just a sweep of empty space.
He looks below the void
and sees an old mare
Lying dead
On the ground.
To his horror
He finds
He can do nothing
To remove himself
From the nothingness
Beneath him.
He can do nothing.
Nothing.
poem for the marlboro man at met park, written in the stands
Notes taken at UVA Writer’s Workshop 1991
World=Language
names everywhere
Is blood life or is blood death?
/Till the cows come home./Why do cows leave home in the first place?
The milkmen molest them daily.
Amish country whirlpool spa–radio, charlottessville
Time to water the horses;
Yellow burns trhe air
As the sun TRACKS THE CLOUDLESS SKY.
tHERE IS NO ROOM TODAY
fOR YOUR PICTURE IN MY HAND
sUFFERING IS in the heat
Open the window.
Titles for blank pages/All I know about Poetry, My love of Math, White Out: Liquid paper Magic
One Liners:
Cats
the dogs are hungry.
The Navy Has Won
the football game.
The Cowboys Sit
in a museum.
Murderers mutter silly monstrosities…Mumbling of secret shootings. Tiny tools of trade tink together in burlap bundles brought by bold burgulars
Shattered streetlights spread shards sharp under foot. Homosexuals hover, hum to eachother or just hug here in their hangout. Soiled students shoot up their shit and gnaw their bent spoons, sliding the sharpness sexually into the vein repeatedly in and out.
End UVA
In Blue Bondage
A sortie of local carnivores
in garbs charcoal black,
bedeck this mosque
burlesque images
of torn flesh and rotting meat.
In the mosque, a cellar
I am strapped in this cellar
to posts and rings, bed frames
spread across the room opposite.
I am stretched in this cellar
between these metal stations, supported by bleating sheep
that accompany me en-mass.
Within.
This mosque
This mind.
This mosque
is my mind.
And my mind is decaying skin in a melting jar.
I wonder that I have shed my caul and retained any sanity.
Surprising , reason hasn’t fled from my lonely, untenanted mosque as all else has in attempt to fly from my mind.
I wonder if I see wrong and all I cling to is the evanesced vermillion stain on the grindstone left in the wake of destructed reason.
The Old One by Milton Dodd 2003
Cold, cold morning
old, the old mourning.
Stove turned on,
November’s gone.
The passing and past numb.
Settling for rum.
Heat’s been out three weeks…
Cheeks only defrost when
temperature peaks.
Bold, bold soaring
old, the old soreing,
cloven, burned one,
Remember Bible song?
The crashing and crashed
trump
heating the room.
Cheats then, about free heat…
seeks only the cost, then simply
beats.
Sold, sold boring
old, her old soul, in—-
driven, turned, done—-
similar wrong,
teats–men with clout
see, retreat–
Meek solely, accost,
sin leaks.
Mold, mold storing
old, the old troll, then–
hidden, spurned, runs
over embers long,
the masking yet masked plump
demon bringing the moon,
meets (when w/out) she, asleep–
Reeks unholy, disgusts,
then drinks.
Fold, fold, holding
old, the old skull, when
smitten turned, becomes
lover mending wrongs;
the amassing yet amassed
grump,
hating singing a swoon,
greets and wants her…
beweeped;
seeks stolen lusts and thinks
‘told, told: smouldering,
old, the old mull, Queen:
bitten, burned, summons
a grating, singeing buffoon
(the lasting yet last rump)
debating swinging a balloon,’
thinks,’ Love haunts she,
steeped
in, eeks emboldened trust,’
then speaks,
“So…So…mothering,
old, ye ollde girl, see,
listen, you’ve earned
from aggravating, murdering
moons,
the fasting bet at last
stumped.”
Abateing mingling with a
croon, ” Bethinkest, lovest
not me? Speak,
then…weeps I holding us
in heat.”
She, “Oh, oh, something
old, as old curls, mi
decision; soothed, distinguished
friend, drinking,
smoldering, soon to be
basking met-tet, has
affront not forsaking
me. Singing will be
soon…
Sink, Best, move us to
Styx,
Since we are going to Hades’ seats.”
I Pluck a Petal by MBD 1993
it deftly
falls from my fingers.
A ladybug clings
to my pulse
it flutters
away,
the most glorious, illuminated.
An overturned flower pot in the afternoon
shadow,
an outline of green growth,
disturbing the soil
about it.
And still, on the same
path as we, the gardeners’ve
pulled the small chains and clasps
from their posts which
war the land.
What are you trying to do by Milton Dodd 1992
”On the level man, who are
you and what are you
trying to do?”
I am a poet
trying to
ressurect fossils.
I am a miner
trying to
make coals dance.
A growth of poetry
resides on my desk,
overgrown the swollen
confines of mohogany bookshelves
to the left.
It rests between wood and fire–
a buffer supported by
blood red flowers waxing
a charcoal black wick–awaiting
further swelling, not in stagnation
but anticipation
Of selections and volumes
gravitating to this outcropping
this seedless cutting: seedless-
Poetry can only branch,
cannot grow anew.
not from seeds at least
Poetry’s prehistoric original birth
will not be repeated, only developed.
Goals 2009
Bring back family, friends & idols to life.
Capture Osama Bin Laden.
Save the lives of innocent babies, children, women & men.
Put away murderors/rapists for good.
Accomplish greatness in the fields of music, art, literature.
Sellout loads of merchandise recommended by me.
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black rabbit i painted at gate to wonderland, or is it Fiver's borrough?
—-
Birds, when alone, bring charm, awareness and human mimicry.
Birds, in flocks, flow in geometrical shapes and even with their cries do define the space, themselves.
Rabbits pausing to nibble in their paws and darting in and out of reeds look especially friendly to a youth, and
furry enough to touch, though I never caught one.
Birds are to bards as auditoriums are to musicians.
When many birds are in cacophony in the wee morning and one is waking or up all night, a book comes to life and
echos amongst the many chirps and calls.
It’s easy to become entranced by birds or rabbits and fall careening into the starry sky or find wonderland hidden
low in high grass around a burroughs bend
From “Birds and Poets” by John Burroughs…>”It might almost be said that the birds are all birds of the poets and of no one else, because it is only the poetical temperament that fully responds to them.”
Lady Grey 4-2010
Green, Yellow and Black
The Swamp Eyes of the Grey Cat
Narrow or Wide,
Cut to Marrow, and Wild,
Suspicious Awe and Wonder
Moving Like Shadow and Smoke in a
Power-rush to Claw All Asunder
Murky dark green water
with highlights, mini plants of bright light green
As seen through a shining crystal ball
Doubled and continued, a universe, with sun and moon, deep within.
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Creating Poetry by Drury—”If you want to write poems, you have to read.”
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg—”{We Are Not the Poem}-The problem is we think we exist. We think our words are permanent and solid and stamp us forever. That’s not true…They are not me, even if I speak in the “I” person.”
The Witches’ Rune by Doreen Valiente<i
Darksome night and shining Moon,
East, then South, then West, then North,
Harken to the Witches’ Rune,
For here I stand to call you forth!
Earth and Water, Air and Fire,
Wand, Pentacle, and Sword,
Work you all to my desire, Hark you now unto my word!
Cords and censor, scourge and knife
Powers of the Witch’s blade,
Wake you all now unto life,
Come now as the charm is made!
Queen of Heaven, Queen of Hel,
Horned Hunter of the Night
Lend your power unto my spell,
Work my will by magic rite!
By all the might of Moon and Sun,
As I do will, so mote it be!
Chant the spell and be it done!
C, Books/ Movies
D. I’m using this space at the end of Poet to note down additions to Milton Dodd=Witch video/book library, immediately below Please look below for details:
(When you download and save a book it goes to “Documents”).
Most of the following books require Winzip or a similar file opener…I recommend jZip which is free so you don’t have to download Winzip more times: http://www.jzip.com/index.php?bt=c&r=501&gclid=CLHU2M3Jx58CFRwUawodbjSE0g
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“There’s more to life than books, you know, but not much more, not much more.”–The Smiths, Handsome Devil
1. Here’s a link to the movie, 2001, A Space Odyssey free to watch on You Tube. It’s in 13 segments. It’s a long, brilliant show and definantly a classic. 
Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DXMVG8fo3g
2. If you are interested in Rasta, you should read the Kebra Nagast (whole book)on the African page of www.sacred-texts.com ,
here http://sacred-texts.com/chr/kn/index.htm
3. Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman (American Indian detective fiction)whole book:
http://www.4shared.com/file/110180180/3d03cc96/Tony_Hillerman_-1999-_Hunting_.html?s=1
4. Witchcraft, A Concise Guide by Isaac Bonewits (trusted voice in Witchcraft/Druidism):
whole book http://www.4shared.com/file/166847786/c6d0ad42/Isaac_Bonewits_-_Witchcraft_-_.html
5. Hoodoo, Voodoo and Conjure by Jeffrey E. Anderson: 
whole book http://www.4shared.com/file/185337007/80c42525/23853813-Hoodoo-Voodoo-And-Con.html?s=1
6.Excerpt from You Are Psychic by Pete Sanders, an MIT trained scientist 
(this book made it easy to be psychic):http://www.google.com/books?id=g4k4AFHu4lsC&pg=PP1&dq=You+Are+Psychic+by+Sanders&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
7. Watchmen whole teenage graphic novel, comic book.
..alot better than the movie (you can turn the page at your pace): http://www.4shared.com/file/97204463/81e2cf6c/Watchmen_-_Comic_book_-_Graphi.html?s=1
8. Batman: The Killing Joke whole graphic novel…blew my mind as a kid!
I’m new to finding comic online, but I look at 4shared.com and there are some.: http://www.4shared.com/file/30881308/b7771d34/BatmanTheKillingJokecomicebook.html?s=1
9. Sandman: the vertigo tarot: (dark pics) 
http://www.4shared.com/file/56113096/a6e2f2ac/sandman_-_the_vertigo_tarot.html?s=1
10. Wolverine Origins and Endings No.38 –3whole comic: 
http://www.4shared.com/file/108303419/39e064d/Wolverine-OriginsAndEndingsNo3.html?s=1
11. With Ears Opening Like Morning Glories: Eudora Welty and the Love of Story Telling
, My aunt is author of this book about the southern literature of Eudora Welty….She has always encouraged my endevours in writing and I owe her a great debt.
Available in hardback at either $150 or used for $5.15 : http://www.amazon.com/Ears-Opening-Like-Morning-Glories/dp/0313247765/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269904616&sr=1-1
12. 26 page excerpt, The Female Tradition in Southern Literature, ed. by Carol S. Manning: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=wmdbb1KGejoC&pg=PP1&dq=the+female+tradition+in+southern+literature+by+carol+s.+manning&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
12. Americus, Book 1 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: (been around a while and still awesome)(whole book) 
http://books.google.com/books?id=YUFxXkAIv50C&dq=Lawrence+Ferlinghetti+pdf&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=VwBeS9boJIictAOFzezSBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CCcQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
13. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (classic): (whole book) http://www.4shared.com/file/123338338/9363ec8a/Lord_Jim_a_tale__1900_.html?s=1 
14. The Sandman comic books {I love #1} it’s in English, the others may not be(whole comics):
http://search.4shared.com/network/search.jsp?sortType=1&sortOrder=1&sortmode=3&searchName=Sandman&searchmode=3&searchName=Sandman&searchDescription=&searchExtention=category%3A5&sizeCriteria=atleast&sizevalue=10&start=0
15. Practising the Witch’s Craft: Real Magic Under a Southern Sky edited by Douglas Ezzy (Australian)whole book:
http://www.4shared.com/file/197541191/a3802008/21638300-Practising-the-Witch-.html?s=1
16. 
Travel Plans??? America’s Stonehenge in New Hampshire is most likely the oldest extant structure in America, being around 4000 yrs old. It’s been determined to be a correct astronomical calendar. It’s possible that Europeans made it since there are Ogham scripts among the ruins with other scripts. Here’s the link. http://www.stonehengeusa.com/
17-19. Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Hannibal by Thomas Harris(whole books): 
http://www.truly-free.org/#fP (save file) (limit 5 books per two weeks this site)(look up author’s last name){Serial Killer fiction}
20. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft: whole books http://www.truly-free.org/#fP 
(save file)(limit 5 books per 2 weekis this site)(look up author’s last name)(The mythos of Lovecraft including the first version of the Necronomicon, The Call of Cthulu)(horror)
21. 
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (whole book): http://www.truly-free.org/#fP (look up author’s last name*(fiction list)* (save file)(limit 5 books every 2 weeks)
22. The Book of Merlyn by T. H. White whole book: 
http://www.truly-free.org/#fP (look up author’s last name*(fiction list)* (save file) (limit 5 books every 2 weeks at this site)
23. Yeats Collected Poems 1889–1939: (witches know Yeats as “One of Us”)whole book
http://www.truly-free.org/#fP (look up author’s last name*(fiction list)* save file)(limit 5 books every 2 weeks at this site)
24. Regalia site:
Native American regalia in pictures and information: http://www.native-languages.org/clothing.htm
25. Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (powerful Frank Miller’s older Batman fights crime and Superman)whole comic graphic novel http://www.4shared.com/file/63463862/165e1e25/Batman_-_The_Dark_Knight_Retur.html?s=1
26. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 
full movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNtRXP6iog&feature=related
27. Witches & Jesuits (Shakespeare’s Macbeth) long excerpt: http://books.google.com/books?id=7vXV585BiYYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Witches+and+Jesuits&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
28. Download Book 4 by Aleister Crowley (whole book): http://www.4shared.com/file/208274277/6bd7fbb7/ebook_-_Magick_-_Book_4_-_Medi.html?s=1
Book 4 by Aleister Crowley—”let the will-to-live be bound
To the one love of the profound.”
29. The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley…(whole book).”An it harm none, do what thou will. Love is the law, love under will.”:
http://www.4shared.com/file/97672729/bc79cf5/Aleister_Crowley_-_Book_Of_The.html?s=1
30. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (whole book)(long, intricate work by a master; interlocking stories in unexpected order):
http://www.truly-free.org/#fK (look up author’s last name)(save file)(limit 5 books per two weeks this site)
31. T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland whole book
http://www.lundyisleofavalon.co.uk/texts/tseliotthewasteland.htm
32. Commercial for Sierra Toy Soldier Company: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoc16rW2K0E
33. 180 Million Year old salt crystal mined in the Himalayas, turned into a lamp, large crystal with light inside, beautiful///$40
available at the Pyramid Collection: http://www.pyramidcollection.com/itemdy00.asp?c=&T1=P21351&USRSRCH=(crystal%20and%20lamp)here2
34. 
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley (whole book): http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/index.html the first Brave New World is Below in Witch
35. there are 8 more books by Aldous Huxley free to read at www.truly-free.org !
36. Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same, classic movie featuring Led Zeppelin: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akPPG8bIkB0&feature=related
37. excerpt of Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog : 
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Lakota-Woman/Dog-Mary-Crow/e/9780060973896/?itm=1&usri=lakota+woman
38. 7 and a half pages of Jim Morrison’s poetry from The American Night … click “look inside”. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-American-Night/Jim-Morrison/e/9780679734628/?itm=1&USRI=American+Night+by+Jim+Morrison
39. 17 pages of Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet:
http://www.google.com/books?id=3lYVnFb3B2MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rimbaud+and+Jim+Morrison:+the+rebel+as+poet&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
40. “read an excerpt” from Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix 
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Room-Full-of-Mirrors/Charles-R-Cross/e/9780786888412/?pwb=1 (click ” read an excerpt” on left
41. Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions by Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes, (excerpt): http://www.google.com/books?id=LKs6GPmOWWAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Lame+Deer,+Seeker+of+Visions&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
42. read an excerpt of Necronomicon by Donald Tyson: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=utT9I-J6ytUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=necronomicon+by+tyson&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
43. read an excerpt of The Sacred Pipe by Black Elk
http://www.google.com/books?id=3BeHBBNLRowC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+sacred+pipe+by+black+elk&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
44, If you’re interested in learning to defend yourself against attackers, learning self defense from the Olympic team coach and one who trains the spec. ops to fight, consider attending: US Taekwondo Center, (website here): http://www.ustaekwondocenter.us/index2.html
45. read an excerpt of Nadja by Breton, 
http://www.google.com/books?id=-yg2JyX1sF0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Nadja,+Breton&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
46. The Last of the Mohicans (whole book)
by Cooper (book)(download takes a while): http://www.4shared.com/file/84069493/cbda45d6/James_Fenimore_Cooper_-_Last_o.html?s=1
47! Big Book of Buds (great pictures and descriptions)whole book 
http://www.4shared.com/file/41683355/88003e9a/marijuanabig_book_of_budswwwer.html?s=1
49. Runes and Norse topics: www.multiart.nu/grimner/
50. The Dead Sea Scrolls:whole book 
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/toc.html
51. Free E-book sites: 1.Internet Public Library: www.ipl.org/
2. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
52. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by the Bros. Grimm (great format and beautiful illustrations)(some of the tales):
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/archive.html
53. free Edvard Munch (artist of The Scream) screensaver, Expressionist, won’t run out: 
http://download.cnet.com/Edvard-Munch-ScreenSaver/3000-2257_4-10775652.html
54. US Military Special Forces screensavers: 
http://www.specialoperations.com/Screensavers/Default.html
55. Serandom screensaver manager/randomizer: (free trial, 9.95$ to buy)…play many screensavers one after the other in order or random…this one works http://www.softspecialist.com/Serandom-Screensaver-Manager-4761/download-Serandom-Screensaver-Manager_2.htm
56. (movie) Airplane! classic comedy movie from 1980, will make you laugh!: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgRVBt_Nw6A&NR=1
57. For those of us who arew interested in Bonsai…If you live or visit Norfolk, VA, there’s a Bonsai show at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens near the airport, Azalea Gardens. The dates are Friday 4/30 through Sunday 5/02/2010. I’ve had an entry in this show before and I’m here to tell you that it’s worth a gander! 
For more info go to www.VirginiaBonsai.org
58. Bram Stoker’s Dracula:whole book 
http://www.call-to-arms.net/hellsingctamain.html?stokerdracula.html
59. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. whole book: 
http://www.4shared.com/file/237696365/6b6f821b/THE_AUTOBIOGRAPHY_OF_Martin_Lu.html?s=1
60! H.R. Giger’s Baphomet Tarot (very demonic and sexually charged tarot)whole book 
: http://www.4shared.com/file/83935940/8f3ba6fc/astrology_-_Baphomet_Tarot_by_.html?s=1
61. Rashomon and Other Stories:whole book
http://manybooks.net/titles/ryunosukother05rashomon.html
62. Firefall by Mona Van Duyn excerpt (9 pages and front +back covers): (really good food for thought):
http://www.amazon.com/Firefall-Mona-Van-Duyn/dp/0679752803/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270785775&sr=1-1
63. New Selected Poems by Mark Strand (51 pages) excerpt:
http://www.amazon.com/New-Selected-Poems-Mark-Strand/dp/0375711279/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270785447&sr=1-1
64. PSI Spies: The True Story of America’s Psychic Warfare Program whole book: 
http://www.4shared.com/document/1ROLNqsi/PSI_Spies_the_True_Story_of_Am.html?s=1
65. Santeria: Nigerian Rituals for Love, Money, Health & Protection:whole book 
http://www.4shared.com/document/q9YcOJl3/SANTERIA-_Nigerian_Rituals_for.html?s=1
66. Santeria Enthroned excerpt) http://www.google.com/books?id=fshnEOLWP9cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Santeria+Enthroned&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Santeria%20Enthroned&f=false
67. excerpt Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America: http://www.google.com/books?id=DgN8h0GreckC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Santeria+the+beliefs+and+rituals+of+a+growing+religion+in+america&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Santeria%20the%20beliefs%20and%20rituals%20of%20a%20growing%20religion%20in%20america&f=false
68. Doktor Snake’s Voodoo Spellbook (20 page excerpt)
http://www.google.com/books?id=ev-5wzH1BL8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Doktor+Snake’s+Voodoo+Spellbook&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
69. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Voodoo excerpt 18 pages: http://books.google.com/books?id=-IjIzuKa_k4C&pg=PP1&dq=The+Complete+Idiot’s+guide+to+Voodoo&lr=&as_brr=0&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
70. Santeria, the Religion: Faith, Rites and Magic…excerpt http://www.google.com/books?id=FPcfw8rf4SgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=santeria+the+religion+faith+rites&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q=santeria%20the%20religion%20faith%20rites&f=false
I love this author of The Santeria Experience, a classic
71. Creating Poetry By John Drury (19 page excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=tEDjK7wiTNQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Creating+Poetry+by+Drury&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
72. The Poetry Dictionairy by John Drury (Drury is inspiring for a poet)
(39 page excerpt) available at www.google.com/books
73. The Art of Poetry Writing by Packard (excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=AuF5oTySfCgC&pg=PP1&dq=the+art+of+poetry+writing+by+packard&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
74. 24 page excerpt The Solitary Wiccan’s Bible by Yvonne & Gavin Frost: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=pgpZm1ZfCM0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Gavin+and+Yvonne+Frost&lr=&cd=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
75. The Witch’s Magical Handbook by Gavin and Yvonne Frost: (6 pages):
http://www.amazon.com/Witchs-Magical-Handbook-Gavin-Frost/dp/B0035G04F2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270936550&sr=1-2
76. Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler (4 pages): 
http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Down-Moon-Witches-Goddess-Worshippers/dp/0143038192/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270938120&sr=1-1
77. Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee (beautiful!) (32 page excerpt): 
http://www.amazon.com/Faeries-Brian-Froud/dp/1862055580/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271024730&sr=1-1
78. Mythology: A Visual Encyclopedia (6 page excerpt): 
http://www.amazon.com/Mythology-Visual-Encyclopedia-Jo-Forty/dp/1856485862/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271026037&sr=1-1
79. Goddesses: A World of Myth and Magic (excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=PlWmsB0WBV8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Goddesses:++A+WOrld+of+myth+and+magic&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
80.><i
Signs, Symbols & Omens by Raymond Buckland (47 page excerpt): “The metaphysical field is replete with symbols and sigils, many of them incomprehensible to the uninitiated. In the field of witchraft alone there are degree symbols, athame sigils, pentacle signs, and many more. Ceremonial or Ritual Magic contain a host of signs and symbols together with such things as magical alphabets, magic squares, and talisman markings. Voodoo has its vevers, and alchemy possesses another host of symbols. From the well-known zodiacal signs of astrology to the inticacies of the Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs, there are many fascinating secrets to be uncovered …No symbol is good or bad in itself; it is what the symbol means to the person using it that is important.”–Raymond Buckland, Signs, Symbols & Omens: an illustrated guide to magical &spiritual suymbolism.
http://www.google.com/books?id=-u2QIns3AHsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Signs+Symbols+and+Omens+by+Buckland&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
81. Symbols of Native America (excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=V7VjlLfJYxIC&pg=PA5&dq=Symbols+of+Native+America&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
82. The Grimoire of Lady Sheba (42 page excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=U0jPv7piHskC&printsec=frontcover&dq=grimoire+of+lady+sheba&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
83. Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian Over 2,200 pictures of Native Americans and their environment. 
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html if you don’t know where to start, hit “volume” and choose gallery view
84. Black Beauty The Autobiography of a Horse by Sewell: 
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=271
85. 
Lots of Writings by William Butler Yeats: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Yeats%2c%20W%2e%20B%2e%20%28William%20Butler%29%2c%201865%2d1939
86. Deepening Witchcraft by Grey Cat (6 page excerpt)(click “read excerpt ” on left…
I respect Grey Cat so much, I named my gato after her. http://www.amazon.com/Deepening-Witchcraft-Advancing-Skills-Knowledge/dp/1550224956/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271197462&sr=8-1
87. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings (25 page preview): http://books.google.com/books?id=CJ3jnDYzTF0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Complete+Idiot’s+guide+to&lr=&as_brr=0&cd=35#v=onepage&q&f=false
88. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Taoism: (17 page preview): http://books.google.com/books?id=LpuAvqtfL20C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Complete+Idiot’s+guide+to&lr=&as_brr=0&cd=167#v=onepage&q&f=false
89. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Native American History: (18 page preview): http://books.google.com/books?id=JsSTR00o_ewC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Complete+Idiot’s+guide+to&lr=&as_brr=0&cd=227#v=onepage&q&f=false
90. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft (24 page excerpt):
http://www.google.com/books?id=wf80xZ-_GPsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+complete+idiot’s+guide+to+wicca+and+witchcraft&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
91. Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry (long excerpt): http://www.google.com/books?id=X9kQb4W2nhgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+complete+idiot’s+guide+to+writing+poetry&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
92. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing the Guitar (whole book):
http://www.4shared.com/file/Gx1s37h7/The_Complete_Idiots_Guide_to_P.html?s=1
93. Heroes of Baseball short book about Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays and Hank Arron: 
http://www.4shared.com/document/xIzsBUqL/Baseball_Heroes.html?s=1
94. Watch TV free online (CNN, Comedy Central, etc.) live, same as tv: http://www.myeasytv.com/
95. Another TV service which has ESPN Sports (missing in the first one)(hit “click here to watch”): http://www.free-watch-tv-online.com/live/espn-sports.html
96. Moon Magic by Dion Fortune (25 page excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=b7loeR7dVLkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dion+Fortune&cd=5#v=onepage&q&f=false
97. The Witch’s Familiar: Spiritual Partnerships for Successful Magic by Raven Grimassi: (45 page excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=PYQso06hGwMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Grimassi&lr=&cd=14#v=onepage&q&f=false
98. Ritual Magic: What it is and how to do it by Donald Tyson: 
(54 page preview):
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“What Is Ritual?
Ritual is the medium through which the art of magic is practiced. It consists of an action or series of actions, which may be entirely mental or mental and physical, whereby the power of magic is released and directed towards the fulfillment of a specific desire.
The bare physical actions of ritual have no force in themselves. Someone who buys a book on magic and stumbles through a ritual found in its pages will be unlikely to produce any result without the necessary mental training and conditioning. Rituals become effective to the degree they are able to alter the mind and create a channel through the unconscious to the well of potential in the Unmanifest. The purpose of ritual is to bring about a heightened or exalted state of awareness that enables the forces of will upon the magical fulfillment, whatever it may happen to be. Ritual is only an instrument to direct the mind.
In theory, ritual would be unnecessary for the working of magic were it possible to exalt the mind at will to instantly bring about a communion with the Unmanifest. In practice, it is doubtful if magic can be worked without the supportive framework of ritual. There would be nothing for the mind to grasp and manipulate. Often the ritual is brief and completely mental–the inner utterance of a single word of power with specific attention, for example. But, for the energy of magic to be released and directed, some structure is required, however simple.”—-Donald Tyson, Ritual Magic: what it is & how to do it.
http://www.google.com/books?id=flJI1p3Zv5wC&pg=PP1&dq=Ritual+magic+by+tyson&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
99. Shamanic Witch by Gail Wood (19 page excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=Kv0yGWdheD8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+shamanic+witch&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
100! Th Art Spirit by Robert Henri (28 page excerpt): 
Classic and one of my favorites, for every artist…great teachings: http://www.google.com/books?id=o_9IRsRNiPcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Art+Spirit+by+Henri&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
101. The Origins and History of Consciousness by Eric Neumann,
author of The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype: excerpt http://www.google.com/books?id=f5s9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Origins+and+history+of+consciousness&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
102. Bonsai and Suiseki: (Illustrated treasure trove of images of prize winning Bonsai) (excerpt) 
http://www.google.com/books?id=R8DySJYD39EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Bonsai&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=60#v=onepage&q&f=true
103. Ortho’s All About Creating Japanese Gardens: (excerpt):
http://www.google.com/books?id=YMKt7NmgRMwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ortho’s+all+about+creating+japanese+gardens&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
103a. Writing Of Writing by Milton Dodd
Writing kept me sane and in good company through my worst trials. No holds barred, anything-goes writing with nothing taboo, was easy enough to hide in a book or under the bed. Allowing myself to be honest built strength in places that lying would cripple. I wrote freely about LSD, Pot, Alcohol and those sorts of pleasures along with sexual cravings, replete with foul language. Since I had written the hard stuff down, I was open to more formal poetry which didn’t need censorship. I became more dedicated to writing.
Write everything you can think of. If it offends you, scratch it out. But don’t be offended; once you’ve said it, you don’t need to say it again.
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”–Sylvia Plath p. 545 Journals.
104! The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath: (excerpt):
http://www.google.com/books?id=UJ628vQBsYAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=sylvia+plath&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=10#v=onepage&q&f=false
105. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (long excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=W1wchMrvL1cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Flowers+of+Evil+by+Baudelaire&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
106. The Illustrated Beast: The Aleister Crowley Scrapbook (excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=Xt1__AUYDmYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+illustrated+beast&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
107. What’s Your Wicca IQ? (excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=KRj_ynjho6kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=What’s+Your+Wicca+IQ%3F&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
108. Gifts of the Lotus: Daily Meditations (excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=aQP1i302Z0IC&pg=PP1&dq=Gifts+of+the+lotus&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
109, Peyote Religion: A History by Omer C. Stewart: (excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=ZesN1ZJNMQYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=peyote&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
110. The Wolf Almanac: almost whole book: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=iUVJsGY9Q-8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+wolf+almanac&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
111. 100 Questions & Answers About Schizophrenia: Painful Minds (excerpt) 
http://books.google.com/books?id=v-hPSt-4xkQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=100+questions+and+answers+about+schizophrenia&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
112. The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton (children’s literature) (classic) (excerpt):
http://books.google.com/books?id=ACUoEoF_wxQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Planet+of+Junior+Brown+by+Virginia+Hamilton&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
113, The History of The Zulu War and It’s Origins: (whole book): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=Fz1CAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Zulu&lr=&as_brr=1&cd=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
114! 5 chapters, 80 pages excerpt of Aleister Crowley’s Diary of a Drug Fiend: 
http://books.google.com/books?id=YDzCLo7ozycC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Diary+of+a+Drug+Fiend+by+Aleister+Crowley&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
115. New York Times Bestseller, The Long, Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson (excerpt) 
http://books.google.com/books?id=C277rKepbkEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+long+road+out+of+hell&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
116. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg (excerpt only missing one chapter):
http://books.google.com/books?id=vIE2Dx-knU8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=writing+down+the+bones&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
117. In Search of Quetzalcoatl: The Mysterious Heritage of American Civilization by Pierre Honore (excerpt): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=OoDx_1FdIq8C&pg=PA39&dq=in+search+of+quetzalcoatl&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
118. The Papyrus of Ani, The Egyptian Book of the Dead translated by Budge: whole book 
http://www.4shared.com/document/tpLLKI3O/Egyptian_Book_of_the_Dead.html?s=1
119, Doonesbury: Duke 2000, Whatever It Takes excerpt: 
http://books.google.com/books?id=NZEi9LyxLgYC&pg=PP1&dq=duke+2000:+whatever+it+takes&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
120. Rogue Warrior by Marcinko (the incredible story of a modern Navy Seal)(excerpts from every chapter=almost all of the book is here): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=t-shyCWcJ3QC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rogue+Warrior&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
121. Power of the Witch: the Earth, the Moon and the Magical Path to Enlightenment by Laurie Cabot with Tom Cowan (recommended by www.wicca.org) excerpt: 
http://books.google.com/books?id=7iR2FMQRl9gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Laurie+Cabot&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
122. Dreams and What They Mean To You by Migene Gonzalez-Wippler (from the author of The Santeria Experience, etc….Look up your dreams’ meanings.)(excerpt): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=e4073-tt9tUC&pg=PP1&dq=Dreams+and+what+they+mean+to+you+by+Migene+Gonzalez-Wippler&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Dreams%20and%20what%20they%20mean%20to%20you%20by%20Migene%20Gonzalez-Wippler&f=false
123. Garden Witchery excerpt almost all of book is available: 
http://books.google.com/books?id=BEdIDl8h6_oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Garden+Witchery&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
124, Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader: (excerpt): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=Vg-ns2orYBMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=word+virus&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
125. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (children’s literature)(excerpt): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=020vfe93e3YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+mouse+and+the+motorcycle&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
126. SHAMANISM, an expanded view of Reality by Shirley J. Nicholson:
http://books.google.com/books?id=DBaMkffOGwgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Shamanism:+an+expanded+view+of+reality&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
127. The Witches’ Almanac Spring 2006–Spring 2007: 
http://books.google.com/books?id=MON28BrEzkYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+witches’+almanac&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
128. Bonewits’s Essental Guide to Druidism by Isaac Bonewits (excerpt): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=Wp6YWCAtGJwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Bonewits’s+Essential+Guide+to+Druidism&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
129. The Triumph of the Moon by Hutton (long excerpt): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=gK43x-BFDuEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+triumph+of+the+moon&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
130. The Night Battles by Carlo Ginzberg (excerpt): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=LngTuKdHLiIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+night+battles&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
131. WITCHES by Hans Holzer (excerpt): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=8IXmQ7FERQsC&pg=PP1&dq=Witches+by+holzer&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
132. The Magus by Francis Barrett: whole book 
http://www.4shared.com/document/750VUaMj/The_Magus_by_Francis_Barrett.html?s=1
133. Real Magic by Isaac Bonewits (text missing glossary): 
http://books.google.com/books?id=rghPxNPkLwUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Real+magic+an+introductory+treatise+by+bonewits&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
134. The Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind the Legend by Harms and Gonce: long excerpt 
http://books.google.com/books?id=JW_iqpErrFcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Necronomicon+Files&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
135. Magic Without Tears by Aleister Crowley: whole book 
http://www.4shared.com/document/VaXGIpa4/Aleister_Crowley_-_Magic_Witho.html?s=1
136. Aleister Crowley and the Practice of the Magical Diary by Aleister Crowley excerpt: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=PXXxUaZAASIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=aleister+crowley+and+the+practice+of+the+magical+diary&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
137. A Whole Lotta Goya, the paintings, prints, museum collections, etc. of Francisco Goya: 
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/goya_francisco_de.html
138. The Art of Basic Drawing whole e-book download: 
http://www.4shared.com/file/49945075/9a52ac2e/The_Art_of_Basic_Drawing.html?s=1
139. For pictures of my paintings, go to www.art-3000.com and look up artist, Milton Dodd! It’s mostly black lite paintings.
140! Better pictures are at milton.c on the left near the top of the homepage; press the little green word “art”.
141. Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=cMuQADen69UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=grimoire+for+the+apprentice+wizard&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
142. Companion for the Apprentice Wizard by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=bLq38xz-U8sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=companion+for+the+apprentice+wizard&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
143. Animal Speak by Ted Andrews (a much more complete excerpt than the one in “Witch”: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=SDqPDqKAXggC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Animal+Speak+by+Ted+Andrews&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
144. 8 page excerpt from Possessed by Ghosts: Exorcisms in the 21st Century by Wanda Pratnicka (click “look inside”): 
http://www.amazon.com/Possessed-Ghosts-Exorcisms-21-Century/dp/839180223X
145. A Santeria Botanica: El VIejo Lazaro: 
Nkisi Bacongo Statuettes (agboran) $49.50 straight out of a Witchcraft History book, the nails driven into the wood of this figure do not represent malefic magick where a person is being hurt, rather, with each nail the worker gains power. Also if you have girls to buy gifts for, the dolls here are fabulous and colorful!
http://www.viejolazaro.com/index.php?cPath=2
146. Native American Wisdom (Running Press): this is a pocket sized edition. I own it and take it with me often: (preview)
http://www.google.com/books?id=ishufgPpbNkC&pg=PP1&dq=native+american+wisdom+running+press&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false…for more native american wisdom, visit: 
147. Practical Candleburning Rituals: Spells and Rituals for Every Purpose by Raymond Buckland:(long excerpt) 
http://www.google.com/books?id=p1Y3gn8aL8wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=practical+candleburning+rituals+by+buckland&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
148. A Witch’s Grimoire: Create Your Own Book of Shadows by Judy Ann Nock long excerpt: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=mVPxb_rKS4kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+Witch’s+Grimoire&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
149. The Ancient Art of Bonsai by A Kimura, Wiley (a book in full by the most famous name in Bonsai today!)
http://www.4shared.com/document/4HrNZ9AC/The_Ancient_Art_Of_Bonsai_2Nd_.html?s=1
150. Your Magickal Cat: Feline Magick, Lore and Worship: excerpt: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=Wxl29ZAvx54C&pg=PP1&dq=Your+Magickal+Cat+by+Gerina+Dunwich&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
151. A Witch’s Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural by Gerina Dunwich: excerpt: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=50rZlhHCW20C&pg=PA1&dq=A+Witch’s+guide+to+ghosts+and+the+supernatural+by+Dunwich&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
1:32 scale soldiers from Wartoyz work with a bag of Army Men
152. Samurai Warrior, Arrow Cutter by Dusty Trails Toys at Wartoyz only $14.99 and the others in the line {look for SWAT team figure}are cheap and available http://www.wartoyz.com/page/WT/CTGY/DT-AF
British SAS Anti-Terrorist Unit for $14.99 at Wartoyz, above.
153. Druid Magic: excerpt:
http://www.google.com/books?id=u0V43-QG3DwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=druid+magic+the+practice+of+celtic+wisdom&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
154. Mitch Hedberg comedian Profile and Videos: 
http://www.dead-frog.com/comedians/comic/mitch_hedberg/
154a. Reading of Reading by Milton Dodd
From scaley, fiery dragons of fantasy to dragon quarters of high magic, the mind opens with good reading.
From finding secrets vs. misunderstandings regarding the bad rap of Santeria or the Occult
to reading the Bible to reinforce your own godhood, Readers cross the lines of fact and fiction in the imagination to brighten our world view. We don't accept fiction as fact but incorporate the fantastic into our creative endevours. I've never been so inspired to be a poet or painter than I was by a book. Or witch for that matter.
If you can concentrate well enough to read line for line, you are going to learn something.
People who read regularly have IQs far above the others. If you like to read, you're one of the lucky ones. It is immeasurable, the power of the word.-MBD July 9 2010
155. The Study of Witchcraft: A Guidebook to Advanced Wicca by Deborah Lipp/foreword by Bonewits: excerpt: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=Pa0EYZO39GAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Study+of+Witchcraft:++a+guidebook+to+advanced+wicca&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
The excerpt at google is lacking and only faintly touches the subject of this book, her booklist. I'm planning to buy it if I can.
Quote from The Study of Witchcraft by Deborah Lipp,
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"Another very cool, very influential thing that happened in this period was the Pagan publishing boom. In 1980, the occult bookshelf was limited: What Witches Do by Stewart Farrar, The Spiral Dance by Starhawk, Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler, Real Magic by Isaac Bonewits, a few books by Doreen Valiente, Gerald Gardner's work, and the early work of Raymond Buckland (although his most famous book, Buckland's Complete Guide to Witchcraft, didn't come along until 1986) You could find the work of Sybil Leek, Paul Huson, and Gavin and Yvonne Frost, as well as older stuff by classic authors like Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, and other pre-Wiccan occultists of an earlier generation. That was about it. You could clean out a bookstore of its Wiccan and Neo-Pagan material without having to buy a new bookcase at home.
The publishing bom of the 1990s changed all that..." D.Lipp
156. Vampires: the occult truth by Konstantinos (excerpt):
http://www.google.com/books?id=RzQ-2u9ESBUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=vampires%3B+the+occult+truth&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
157. Gothic Grimoire by Konstantinos (excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=SRvgQgUDC3EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=gothic+grimoire&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
158. Nocturnal Witchcraft: magick after dark by Konstantinos (excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=Qjs4jap64Z0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=nocturnal+witchcraft&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
159. Nocturnicon: calling dark forces and powers by Konstantinos (excerpt): 
http://www.google.com/books?id=eEQPuDnSDuwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=nocturnicon&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
160. The Archaeology of Rock Art: 
http://www.google.com/books?id=saZB87arFW0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+archaeology+of+rock+art&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
END: MILTON DODD = POET
PREPARATORY FOR “WITCH’
THIS LIST IS FOR THOSE WITCHES THAT CAN’T AFFORD A KINDLE!
OVER 200 COMPLETE BOOKS including 10 children’s books, then, 26 POETRY COLLECTIONS, 18 FULL MOVIES, PLUS 10 CHILDREN’S MOVIES, AND 11 MUSIC VIDEO COLLECTIONS FREE TO VIEW ARE BELOW IN “MILTON DODD=WITCH” (There are only 5 book excerpts in the following list, everything else is a full book…there are a couple excerpts followed by full texts which I didn’t count.)
in Milton Dodd=Witch if it’s not labeled as an excerpt, one should assume that it is the full text.
Also, in “Witch” and further down the page, if a picture doesn’t show up, right click it and choose, “show picture” Furthermore, The top section book list of Witch ends with the Poetry section where poets like Sylvia Plath, Jim Morrison and e.e. cummings are showcased.
