Creating Poetry by John Drury p.9><i
“Your experiences–things you’ve done, people you’ve known, memories that flash back to you, dreams that perplex or astonish you, books you’ve read, places you’ve visited–give you rich deposits of the raw material a poem refines and shapes into something valuable. Of course, this mother lode has to be mined. And before that, you’ve got to prospect to find out where to dig. And you never know, when you start looking, if your particular kind of wealth is subterranean and glittering, a vein of gold, or something right under your nose as simple and wonderful as the leaves of grass Walt Whitman loved.
There is no one right place to start, but if you don’t learn to enjoy reading poems you’re denying yourself the most essential tools for digging–as well as the riches our predecessors have given us. Read, notice things, be curious, pay attention to what your senses tell you, and you’ve made a good start to transforming the everyday stuff you ignore and forget–your passing fancies–into poems.”
p.13
“One of the best ways to go about learning how to write poems is to read a lot of poetry–and not just poetry, but other texts that spark an interest: novels, essays, biographies, science books, travel books, whatever. Randall Jarrell advises “Read at whim! read at whim!”
B. For a “Best Of” list look toward the bottom of this Milton Dodd=PoetIII blog.
read= To learn or get knowledge of from something written or printed.
I WRITE WHAT I KNOW!
The Wise Man Reads Many Books
The Wise Man Writes His Fate
Words Are Essential To Knowledge
Learning Words Gives One Power over His Environment
One’s Environment Is the Essential Subject of Powerful Writing
Reading and Writing Are Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, Sleep, Excercise
Books Contain All of Life
Milton Blansett Dodd 2010
picture of my gato, Lady Grey
Lady Grey, Grimalkin, Grey Cat has sadly passed on to a new life
What a blow, but I’m quickly recovering…
I adopted a little Calico I named Rosie Moon
Here’s her picture
E. Poetry.
“Many poets would say that the poet needs to induce a trance before the real writing comes through. There is no “right” way to get into this frame of mind; whatever works for you, however idiosyncratic, is fine…Traditionally the poet invokes the muse, asking for inspiration and guidance–even for the words themselves, as if the poet were merely a conductor of electricity, rather than the dynamo itself.”–from Creating Poetry by John Drury.
Appalachia by Milton Dodd
I am the Buddha of the New World
Seeking enlightenment from a Goddess of the Appalachians.
She is standing with fingers curled
Overlooking the nocturnal roaming herds of wild stallions.
Only Whispers have I heard
Issued from her lips,
“IAO, IAO,” she said
And broken Iroquois.
I’m sure if she spoke aloud
I’d be deaf
Lightning would break the night’s cloak; destroyed
By earthquakes, nothing’d be left.
One day she convinced me of her omnipotence.
Away across the valley, a fire ravaged the hillside.
Burning towards her till night, the smoke was incense.
Spurning the heat, she swatted Orion, a landslide
Developing under cumulonimbus torrents.
I have been sleeping.
She watches the dawn now.
The sky surreally follows her contours,
her form outlining the atmos.
Ripples form, floating, how they repeat again and more.
I’m a Snitch
I’m a snitch, I’m a pig, I’m a narc!
I get called that every day
by people I put away.
I’m not ashamed
b/c they’re to blame
for cutting pretty women in half
and putting razors in baby’s skin for a laugh.
It’s not the same,
I’m not friends with them
I don’t mind if you get high all day.
But when you rape your own daughter, then,
I want you in jail to stay!
I feel justified in my actions
and save lives, missing only fractions
all I do is sit and stare at whatever,
unlike early Johnny Depp.
Anyway, I’m a snitch, I’m a pig, I’m a Narc!
Upholding by Milton Dodd
What were the
grand illusions
that held a web
around our folding body.
We were
a single mass.
For years the roaches and rats
infested
snakes for neighbors.
The Gatekeeper’s Wink 1-1993 Milton Dodd
Her hair was wet foliage curling over her ears. It grew into her left eye. Always winking, she was a seductive gatekeeper. Tassles on her shoes caught my attention as they flopped on the sidewalk and I watched while the leather expanded and glowed. When the luminescence subsided I realized that her feet were covered by two worn bark boots. Interesting.
“Are you sure you haven’t been here?” she whispered, dropping her head to reach my foot-stare.
“Never,” I replied.
“Then we’ll need a key,” she said, ” I assume you don’t have one.” I shook my head and looked at the gate.
The gate was curled iron…bars shaped in swirls, with chains running through holding drama masks; comedy, tragedy. Different faces cast at different angles with differing expressions revealing, however, only two emotions. The laugh or smile in an ocean of reproduction, mingled and blended with the waters of the frown or cry.
The key was shaped like a lightbulb and the keeper screwed it into the door. The lock squeaked, clinked, burst into flame and was gone. We entered the house or the castle, or the dungeon, I knew not. The first room blanked rational thought…
“Speak, talk
speak, talk
speak, talk,
speak, talk,” the floorboards worked subliminal instructions into my teeth.
Let me Touch the Notes 1993 Milton Dodd
Boredom.
I have luncheon,
a single light bulb, burnt,
static frost glimmering.
Icy folds of winter paint
summon the window reflections.
Look at the wall. Burp.
Remember how to deduce?
Touch up logic’s face
with glow tape.
(Blue is grey to this animal).
Cough.
Remember how to dance?
Ancient tribal drum. Speak.
What waves of ejaculation rupture the brow of the composer!
Blind, deaf man, listen, look at this eyeless fish in deep sea.
He has a glowing nostril.
What sense is this bioluminescence?
Blind painter, Deaf composer.
Luscious mind seeds
planted in eye,
in ear,
I almost taste your existance.
Blind man, help me see one canvas,
Deaf man, let me hear one piece
before I die;
you can listen closer than,
you can see more clearly than I.
Out here,
too much light
in my insight,
too much bass
in my head,
shut my face,
spike my ears dead.
Let me feel the colors,
Let me touch the notes.
In swirling, singing flowers,
I want no shirts, no coats.
Sketchers 1993 milton dodd
They who stare through windows
in oldsmobiles,
who look for acceptance and take offense
with one passing glance,
They who faithfully believe
all the nothing-talk they recieve,
that every week begins with Monday,
that there is no new way,
They…They…
Need…Need…
to…to…to…
Stutter…Stutter…
Stutter…Stutter…
Society makes me feel like a madman,
cutting my eyes in crowds,
rambling to strangers,
laughter in the safety of an
automobile.
Society makes me feel like a lunatic.
(half wanting to hide,
half wanting to sing).
“Banks open up when they are stable”
According to my History teacher
(she’s talking about the Depression)
I’m trying to open up while I’m spinning, contorting, exploding,
swirling in air,
(not to mention the Depression).
Stability–
I’m shaking it off of me.
The Black Cat by Milton Dodd 2009
The black cat slinked like a lynx down the side of a wide ditch. It followed the flowing water of this night’s
rain. It’s coat shimmering blue, the tom sniffed the air, looked up at the flourescent light above it, moons glowing in it’s eyes.
Going back up the incline of the ditch, it spotted it’s destination. A small cottage across a stone bridge. After
gathering his strength, he raced across the bridge and hopped up on a window sill.
F. Pictures of or by me
\The following are pictures of me that made it big. I was never paid but I’m happy, very happy with it.
1. Evanescence, Fallen: (for sale)http://music.barnesandnoble.com/Fallen/Evanescence/e/601501306327/?itm=1&USRI=Evanescence+Fallen
2. 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (anthology)(for sale here): $1.99 used: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/100-Wicked-Little-Witch-Stories/Stefan-Dziemianowicz/e/9781566197625/?itm=3&USRI=100+wicked+little+witch+stories
3. Diary of Dreams, Menschfiend: for sale: http://www.amazon.com/Menschfeind-Diary-Dreams/dp/B0007M22CA/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1269808558&sr=1-16
4. Diary of Dreams, One of 18 Angels (horizons) (for sale here): http://www.amazon.com/One-18-Angels-Diary-Dreams/dp/B00004R8Q0/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1269808521&sr=1-4 
5. Andrew WK, I Get Wet (for sale here): http://www.amazon.com/I-Get-Wet-Andrew-W-K/dp/B00005RY7X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1269808767&sr=1-1
6. Diary of Dreams, Moments of Bloom: for sale here: http://www.amazon.com/Moments-Bloom-Diary-Dreams/dp/B000021XU3/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1269808877&sr=1-13
my teeth in yellow, I stuck the camera in my mouth and flashed a picture
real blood coming from my nose after high school fight–Andrew WK
a little white paint on my goatee in the Evanescence cover
athletic cleat heel on my face for Menschfiend
I’m naked in sunlight within a burnt out building in Mississippi on One of 18 Angels by Diary of Dreams
red paint dripping from my nose and my pinkie about to get it… on the book, 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories
7. The next picture is a reproduction of a piece of art that I managed to make in the third grade. I had seen cats at both my grandparents’ houses and I loved thinking about them. I knew how to form them in drawings. It paid off on this piece. The down side is that I was never able to take it home and enjoy my accomplishment. My teacher put off giving it back and then made off with it to sell to a distributor, he did not come back to teach. I was very disappointed that I couldn’t show my masterpiece to my mother.
Tiffany Cats suncatcher 16 x 10 on e-bay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400053771103
8. This next picture is a montage I made at the age of 12 or 13 in a graphic art studio. I used a copier and made a transparency then stuck my hand in the copier on top of it. I left it in the copier at the studio or right beside it and found it on a book I bought. Good book too.
Buy A History of Witchraft, Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans here: (click look inside) http://www.amazon.com/History-Witchcraft-Sorcerers-Heretics-Pagans/dp/0500272425/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269809283&sr=1-1
9. The picture of the mountain road on this book cover was taken by me in the Berkshires in Massachusetts behind the Lavan Center, just off campus of The Berkshire Theater Festival. I later found out that down that road a little ways was a stone monolith which I did visit at night. Buy Wicca For One by Buckland here (look inside) http://www.amazon.com/Wicca-One-Path-Solitary-Witchcraft/dp/0806525541/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269809470&sr=1-1
Even more, this piece is a reproduction as jewelry of a drawing I did when I was two years old. It surprised a friend of mine, Terry Jerrnigan, with it’s simple completeness. He made a sculpture from the drawing and made a cast followed by duplicates and this jewelry. TJ has the original or I’d show it next to this. 
It’s available at AzureGreen.com for around six dollars. Copy/Paste the following URL: http://azuregreen.com/guardian-from-harm-talisman.html
Here’s the original casting from my drawing by TJ…I bought it at a local occult shop when I lived in Norfolk. The messed up painting is my doing: 
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H. I’ll put a couple pictures from my favorite painter, JW Waterhouse here:
1a. Download the John William Waterhouse Screensaver, it’s free and doesn’t run out. Click the download location “cybrosia.com” here: http://www.softpile.com/Desktop/Screen_Savers/Download_30776_1.html
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Billy Goat at Really Great Toys
I got her goat!
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J. The secret to my book collection is made up of three book sites. They are here to be used by you to find your own books, I’m sure we differ in some way. I hand-picked my book collection below in Milton Dodd =Poet and Milton Dodd = Witch.
1. Download from a ton of books most likely in your field of interest, a large database in which you type in your author or title search after signing up your name, password and e-mail: (hint, when looking for a book file, follow the name and author by “.pdf”, as in Title.pdf , .pdf is a book listing usually, use it to narrow your search from music etc.)
www.4shared.com .If you sign up here for 4shared you don’t have to below when you want to download a book I picked.
2. or Download from a few full pages of books which I’ve found very well put together at www.truly-free.org . Here there’s no password but you can only download 5 books per any two week period.
3. www.google.com/books In my experience, here you will find a lot of excerpts (limited previews) and only a few whole books, but many of the previews have nearly all the pages, some missing only the glossary, etc. and are well worth reading.
K. Amazing links available below:
1.(book) The Magical Workbook by Donald Tyson. (magick explained in detail, makes no assumption about what you already know) http://www.4shared.com/file/188946843/27068c53/Donald_Tyson_-_The_Magical_Wor.html?s=1
Quote from Donald Tyson’s The Magical Workbook:
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“Western ritual magic at its higher level involves an intense mental and physical
discipline that is every bit as rigorous as that imposed by Eastern yoga. The yogi
tends to work inwardly, focusing on the body, whereas the magus directs the will
outwardly upon the objects of the greater world. This apparent distinction is misleading,
since inner world and outer world have no dividing boundary, but are an
indivisible universe perceived by a single human mind. The ultimate goal is similar
in both practices-to master the personal universe and yoke it to the higher aspirations.
Power over the environment is a byproduct of skilled magic, but even more
significant is the command of the self attained by the magus.
On the physical level, magic relies on tools such as the wand, the chalice, and the
altar to divide space and energize objects. On the sensory level, it uses scents, colors,
textures, and sounds to focus and direct the attention. On the emotional level,
feelings such as enthusiasm, joy, devotion, love, and desire are employed as engines
of the ritual purpose. On the mental level, creative visualization shapes and manipulates
the substance of the imagination so that they appear to be materially present
before the sight. On the spiritual level words and symbols of power constrain
spiritual intelligences to fulfill the will of the magus as faithful servants.”
2.(big site)First People (Native Americans): http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Legends-AB.html
3. (book)The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Wolfe (hippies)(look up author’s last name): http://www.truly-free.org/#fP
4.a.(book) The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (15 year old prodigy author)(look up last name of author)(limit 5 books downloaded per 2 weeks): http://www.truly-free.org/index.php
b.(movie)The Outsiders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EoZAgsSt18&feature=PlayList&p=C8BA093703298EE1&index=0
5. (video) Peter Kingsley (author of Reality) interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow-_G26lpOk
6. (books) The Complete Works of Carlos Castaneda (Shamanism, Sorcery) (all in one download): www.truly-free.org look up author’s last name in the second list: Nonfiction.
7. (books) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series 1 thru 5 by Douglas Adams: http://search.4shared.com/network/search.jsp?sortType=1&sortOrder=1&sortmode=2&searchName=hitchhiker’s+guide+to+the+galaxy&searchmode=2&searchName=hitchhiker’s+guide+to+the+galaxy&searchDescription=&searchExtention=&sizeCriteria=atleast&sizevalue=10&start=0
8. Ophiolatreia (a book about serpent worship and it’s history): http://sacred-texts.com/etc/oph/index.htm
9. For the young people, The Secret of Nimh or “rats of nimh” for those who remember it, here in it’s entirety without interruption: http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=miltondodd.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hulu.com%2Fwatch%2F25523%2Fthe-secret-of-nimh
10. Things Jim Morrison, The Doors:
a. Poetry of Jim Morrison, not found in his popular books: ”<i
POWER
I can make the earth stop in
its tracks. I made the
blue cars go away.
I can make myself invisible or small.
I can become gigantic & reach the
farthest things. I can change
the course of nature.
I can place myself anywhere in
space or time.
I can summon the dead.
I can perceive events on other worlds,
in my deepest inner mind,
& in the minds of others.
I can
I am“–Jim Morrison
b. Poetry from Jim Morrison’s debut poetry book, Lords and New Creatures: http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=miltondodd.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FLords-the-New-Creatures%2FJim-Morrison%2Fe%2F9780671210441%2F%3Fitm%3D1%23CHP Click “Read A Chapter” on left, refresh if you need to
c. 7 1/2 pages of poetry from Jim Morrison’s The American Night: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-American-Night/Jim-Morrison/e/9780679734628/?itm=1&USRI=American+Night+by+Jim+Morrison
d. The Doors Live at the Hollywood Bowl entire concert (match film pics between segments) http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=miltondodd.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnYfVZ_rLpVA%26feature%3DPlayList%26p%3DB3E913E86690ED94%26index%3D3
e. The Doors videos at fm99.com : http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=miltondodd.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tunegenie.com%2Fvideo%2Fa%2FMN0000114342%2Fthe-doors%2F%3Fb%3Dwnor
f. 17 pages of Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet…Look up title at www.google.com/books
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
11.”Picasso is Painting” 
Pablo Picasso in action, painting pictures, you see the process. The link to Picasso is Painting in Witch, below is not there anymore… this replaces it.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo9UDldSDgk
12.a.(book)The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis excerpt: updated excerpt from Google Books with many more pages….http://books.google.com/books?id=NAs-JZ1MhoMC&pg=PP1&dq=the+serpent+and+the+rainbow+by+wade+davis&lr=&as_brr=0&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
b. (movie) Wes Craven’s horror adaptation of The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy5ZRMgGn2M
13.a. (book) Watership Down by Richard Adams (look up author’s last name) (fiction list) http://www.truly-free.org/#fH
b. (audio book) Watership Down: http://www.4shared.com/file/78231521/99fee94a/Richard_Adams_-_Watership_Down.html?s=1
c. Animated movie, Watership Down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gYpLGxAetg
14. Howl byAllen Ginsberg, classic Beat poetry: http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=miltondodd.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pangloss.com%2Fseidel%2FRamble%2Fhowl_text.html&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fmiltondodd.wordpress.com%2F
15.(movie-uninterrupted) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Tore: http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=miltondodd.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hulu.com%2Ffear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fmiltondodd.wordpress.com%2F
16. Libri of Crowley works by Aleister Crowley, Many of them available at:
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/index.html
17. LIMEWIRE is no longer Availble
18. Real Magic by Isaac Bonewits (along with number one in this list, will tell you all you need to know about magick and ESP available at www.google.com/books 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
19. The Art Spirit by Robert Henri (excerpt, book does for Art what Letters to a Young Poet does for Poetry) available at www.google.com/books….http://www.google.com/books?id=o_9IRsRNiPcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Art+Spirit+by+Henri&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
19a. The Portable Beat Reader edited by Ann Charters available in excerpt at www.amazon.com, look up title and click the cover to read the excerpt.(the greatest minds of a generation) Beat poetry and prose 622 pages… on the cover: William S. Burroughs gestures to Jack Kerouac on a couch.
20. www.WarToyz.com and www.SierraToySoldierCompany.com have the best miniatures, realistic and accurate to the times. They cover many wars.
www.sierratoysoldiercompany.com
Huey from www.wartoyz.com
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L. Deals that cost some money:
Goldtop Electric Guitar $200 at amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Jay-Turser-JT-200-Goldtop-Electic/dp/B0010Z3J2A/ref=sr_1_50?ie=UTF8&s=musical-instruments&qid=1269642705&sr=1-50
Digitech RP90 multi-effects guitar pedal $84.97 at amazon.com: 
http://www.amazon.com/DigiTech-RP90-Guitar-Multi-Effects-Processor/dp/B000XZMY7O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=musical-instruments&qid=1269674683&sr=1-1
Ibanez Electric Guitar pack $200http://www.guitarcenter.com/Ibanez-IJX30-Electric-Guitar-Pack-104378153-i1372012.gc
A recent toy I’ve added to my collection is Amazon’s Apache Helicopter 1 32 scale, for $20.37… the cockpit looks more angular/ocatagonal than this picture…
another is a 1 32 scale German tank
and these figures
144 army men: 
for about $14.00 I’m getting: 
This Christmas, I’m buying this Celtic Fairy for my mother from www.designtoscano.com for $50, it’s over a foot and a half tall
For the rest of the family, I’m getting the Tiki pen vessel and Tiki pens for a total of about $22
For great deals and great ideas for Xmas and the Holidays look to these links
www.designtoscano.com
www.prometheus-imports.com
pre-columbian is inexpensive
www.azuregreen.net
look at the amulets/talismans for around $6.95 ea.
www.sierratoysoldiercompany.com
www.wartoyz.com
You can spend some money, or not much at these sites.
END: MILTON DODD = POET III
