Version 1.3. Updated November 8, 2023.
NEW POEMS POSTED AS WRITTEN
NOVEMBER 2023
- November One.
- Bancroft - Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
- Seen Floating on the Seine, Some Prussian Corpses - Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
- Talking Yourself Into War - Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
- Thoughts And Prayers Are Not Enough - Translated from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
- Heaven and Earth- Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
- To the Bishop Who Called Me An Atheist - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
- The Fly.
- The Goodman's Croft.
- To A Sick Child During the Siege - Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
OCTOBER 2023
- The Defeat at Sedan, Part 2 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, retitled 'Where Madmen Go'.
- The Defeat at Sedan, Part 3 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, retitled 'When They Fall'.
- The Defeat at Sedan, Part 4 - Translated from Victor Hugo, retitled 'The Catalog of Shame'.
- The Defeat at Sedan, Part 5 - Translated from Victor Hugo, retitled 'One Surrenders'.
- The Defeat at Sedan, Part 6 - Translated from Victor Hugo, retitled 'Once It Was Gaul'.
- The Choice Between Two Nations- Translated from Victor Hugo.
- To the War Criminals.
- October 1870, Part 1 Translated from Victor Hugo, 'Exiled, I became the ocean's old prowler.
- Free, But for What?
- Paris Blockaded, Reborn - Adapted from Victor Hugo, September 1870.
- Worthy of One Another - Adapted from Victor Hugo, September 1870.
- Will This War Make Us Into Noble Beings? - Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, September 1870.
- To Little Jeanne - Translated and adapted from from Victor Hugo.
- October 1870, Part 2 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, retitled 'As Dante and Aeschylus Look On'.
- October 1870, Part 3 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, retitled 'As An Embattled Star'.
- Atop the Walls of Paris, At Nightfall - Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo.
- Paris Slandered in Berlin. - Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
- To All the Princes - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
SEPTEMBER 2023
- Cosmology.
- The Dociles.
- Her Little Apples - Adapted from Paulus Silentarius, The Greek Anthology, vi, 290.
- To a Garden Priapus - Adapted from Anonymous, The Greek Anthology, vi, 22.
- Things Abandoned to Hermes - Adapted from Julianus, Prefect of Egypt, The Greek Anthology, vi, 28.
- The Beast- Adapted from Leonidas, The Greek Anthology, vi, 262.
- Having It All - After Theognis, Elegaic Poems, 293-294.
- Money Was Made - After Callimachus, Aetia.
- - From Victor Hugo, "When 7.5 Million Voted Yes".
- Wrong Rub - Adapted from Anonymous, The Greek Anthology, v, 82.
- Oh, Give It Up - Adapted from Asclepiades, The Greek Anthology, v, 85.
- The Dark Lady - Adapted from Asclepiades, The Greek Anthology, v, 210.
- When 7.5 Million Voted Yes, Part 1 - Translated from from Victor Hugo.
- When 7.5 Million Voted Yes, Part 2 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo.
- Prelude to The Terrible Year - Adapted from Victor Hugo.
- Lazy Bones.
- The Burial. - Adapted from Paul Verlaine.
- The Defeat at Sedan, Part 1 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo.
AUGUST 2023
- Make Merry Now - Adapted from Rufinus, The Greek Anthology, v, 12.
- Hesiod's Dream - From Callimachus, Aetia, 2.
- Birth of a Poem - From a fragment of Callimachus, Aetia 7.
- The Argo Got Away - After Callimachus, Aetia 7, 19-21.
- Fire Is Not Easy - After Callimachus, Aetia, 48.
- The Beautiful People- After Theognis, Elegies, 15-18.
- Accusing Zeus - From Theognis, Elegaic Poems, 731-752.
- Sociopaths - Theognis, Elegaic Poems 149-154.
- Milkweed Seeds.
- The Goddess of Poverty.
JULY 2023
- His Attributes.
- At Homer's Grave on Ios - Adapted from Antipater, The Greek Anthology, vii, 2.
- Priapus on the Seashore - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, x, 7,8,10.
- On a Statue of Echo - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, xvi, 154.
- The Raven and the Scorpion - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, ix, 339.
- The Locked-Up Mouth- After Theognis 421-424.
- The Good Town - After Callimachus, Aetia, 48.
- Fragments in Defense of the Personal Poem - After Callimachus, Aetia, 1.
- The Shards of Gods - Inspired by Theognis, Elegaic Poems, i, 1-4.
- Communions.
- The Count.
- By Night She Is Mine - After Anonymous, The Greek Anthology, v, 2.
JUNE 2023
- Prayer to a Strange Goddess. - Adapted from Anonymous, The Greek Anthology, vi, 24
MAY 2023
- An Offering to Priapus - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology vi, 192.
- The Dented Trumpet - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, vi, 195.
- Three Spinning Sisters - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, vi, 39.
- Diogenes the Cynic, Dead - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 68.
- Less Said, Best Said - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 140.
- Atys and the Lion- Adapted from Dioscorides, The Greek Anthology, vi, 220.
- The Madness of Ajax - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 147.
- Fly Away! Fly Away! - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, v, 59.
- From the Magpie - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 191.
- Death of the Cicada - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 213.
- The Beached Dolphin - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 214.
- The Shipwreck's Grave - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology.
- Killing the Lion at Nemea - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, xvi, 94.
- Singing Ludwig.
- In the Balkans - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, ic, 111.
APRIL 2023
MARCH 2023
- Woe to Bayonne, New Jersey.
- A Gift of Daffodils - Part 1 of "A Northumbrian Wedding".
- Rats at the Wedding - Part 2 of "A Northumbrian Wedding."
- Lord Rutherford's Castle - Part 3 of "A Northumbrian Wedding."
- The White Lady. - Part 4 of "A Northumbrian Wedding."
- Ancien Regime
FEBRUARY 2023
- On the Porch - from The Greek Anthology.
- To Spring - after Meleager.
- Oaks I Would Like to Know
- The Kind-Hearted Girl - after Poseidippus.
- Up in the Sky
- Valentine's Day
- That Day in February
- The Cynic's Fall - after Leonidas.
- From the Vine - from The Greek Anthology.
- Lament for Orpheus - after Antipater of Sidon.
- Our Diminished Company - from Diogenes Laertius.
- At the Tomb of Sophocles - from Simias.
- Kangxi Drinks Tea from His Porcelain Eggshell Teacups
JANUARY 2023
- A Contest of Eyes - after Meleager.
- Hubris.
- In A Name - adapted from Meleager.
- Either-Or - adapted from Meleager.
- Midsummer Respite - adapted from Meleager.
- Bringing Bad News to Niobe - adapted from Meleager.
- Dreams of Down Below - adapted from Dioscorides.
- Two Scholars Atop a Cliff.
- Things I Never Dreamt I'd Eat.
- Go to Elysium.
- Unlucky Number.
- To Antiochus - adapted from Meleager.
- The Mourner - adapted from Dioscorides.
- The Mirror of Lais. - adapted from Julianus, Prefect of Egypt.
- The Azaleas of Ningpo
- A Tripod at Delphi - adapted from Antipater of Sidon.
- Figures on a Kangxi Vase
- Figures sur un Vase du Règne de Kangxi
- This Way and That - adapted from Meleager.
- Message to Heliodora - adapted from Meleager.
- Past Her Prime - adapted from Meleager.
- Elegy for Charixenus - adapted from Meleager.
- Chinatown 1975
- Oblivion - adapted from Meleager.
- Line Up the Young Men of Kos - adapted from Meleager.
- The First Anthologist - adapted from Meleager.
- The Evil Song - adapted from Dioscorides.
- Snuff Out the Lamp - adapted from Asclepiades.
- An Unholy Trio - adapted from Asclepiades.
- Night Torment - adapted from Asclepiades.
- The Tea-Pet Toad.
DECEMBER 2022
- If Only They Saw.
- Interrogation - adapted from Meleager.
- Heliodora, Dead! - adapted from Meleager.
- The God Pan in Bronze - adapted from Meleager.
- On Wine and Water - adapted from Meleager.
- The Funeral of Adonis - adapted from Dioscorides.
- Afterwards.
- The Dark One.
- Knecht Ruprecht.
- Strip Woods.
- The Hungry Eye - adapted from Meleager.
- The Fire Bearer - adapted from Meleager.
- In the House of Eros.
- Spare This Ox - adapted from Meleager.
- Timon of Athens' Tombstone - from The Greek Anthology.
- Beardless No More - adapted from Meleager.
- The Fading Charms - adapted from Meleager.
- Love On Top - adapted from Meleager.
- Absence - adapted from Meleager.
- She Waits at Kos - adapted from Meleager.
- When Zenophila Sings - adapted from Meleager.
- Dilemma - adapted from Meleager.
- Wreath and Crown - adapted from Meleager.
- Month of Wine.
- Anti-Eros - adapted from Meleager.
- Hear Walking Past A Doorway in Ephesus - adapted from Meleager.
- Four Torches - adapted from Meleager.
- His Own Epitaph - adapted from Meleager.
- My Own Ganymede - adapted from Meleager.
- Christmas Eve.
- Spitting Image - adapted from Meleager.
- Of the Same Name - adapted from Meleager.
- An Interior Temple - adapted from Meleager.
- Property of Zeus - adapted from Meleager.
- Diasporas.
- Super Powers - adapted from Meleager.
- Burning Up - adapted from Meleager.
- After the Shipwreck, Love - adapted from Meleager.
NOVEMBER 2022
- Watching Her House - adapted from Meleager.
- Lost and Found - adapted from Meleager.
- Too Much of A Good Thing - adapted from Meleager.
- That Monster Child - adapted from Meleager.
- Seeing the Light - adapted from Meleager.
- Hold Back the Dawn - adapted from Meleager.
- Prayer to Night - adapted from Meleager.
- Bee, Tell Me Not - adapted from Meleager.
- Love by Stealth - adapted from Meleager.
- Mosquito Jealousy - adapted from Meleager.
- Spring Garland - adapted from Meleager.
- Trapped - adapted from Meleager.
- At the Temple of Ares - adapted from Meleager.
- The Cats of Kilkenny
- An Oak Leaf, Solitary, adapted from Lermontov.
- Deceit - adapted from Meleager.
- Epigrams on Gravity.
- God Has
- Father and Son (Saturn devours his chldren).
OCTOBER 2022
- By Night and Lamp - adapted from Meleager.
- The Customer - adapted from Palladus.
- Too Many Arrows - adapted from Meleager.
- Be A Good Sport - adapted from Meleager.
- Fever Dream
- Book Row
- A Prague Mystery - A Golem Poem.
- Do Not Feed
- Of A Sudden - an ominous autumn poem.
- Bringing Home the Bacon
- Anthropocene
- The Why Of It
- Sunset Rhapsody
- Saint-John's Eve
- The Fingers
- The Consultation
- Autumn in Alexandria
SEPTEMBER 2022
- Equinox, An Autumn Poem
- Under Every Bed
- Things We Don't Do
- People Like That
- Rhyme Not for the Sake of Rhyming
- Politics As Usual
- Epigrams on Prophets and Such
- Literary Epigrams
- Roadside Encounter
- Written While Dying - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- What Kind of Poet - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Empty Is The Past - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Of Trysts Gone By - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Places and Names - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Am I Awake? - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Lichen - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Horses As Fierce As Flying Dragons - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Tears - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Land of Wine - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Separated - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Parasol Trees - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Ninth Day of the Ninth Month - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Monotony - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Night Sounds - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Meditation in Exile - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Nightmare - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Long Is The Sadness - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Futile Bouquet - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Doubts - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Court Officials - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- War Story
- Alone in the Temple - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Interruption - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Beloved Speaks - The Assignation - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Hut - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Waiting For Her - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Prisoner - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Empress Alone - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Other Woman
- Invocation of the Demons - From the Long Poem "City Limits"
- Devil Dogs
- Vision At Sunrise - From the Long Poem "City Limits"
- Haight Street - From the Long Poem "City Limits"
- Visiting the Dowager - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Forbidden Palace -Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Down South (Revision) - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Sweeping the Tombs - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Making Love to te Empress - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Woman of Spring - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- The Floating Things - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Making Spring Happen - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Dancing on Autumn Leaves - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Crybaby
- Big House, Rent Cheap
AUGUST 2022
- Awakening in Early Autumn - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- At the Door
- September Sarabande
- Open Stacks
- White People
- Choosing No One - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Autumn Day-Dreams - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
- Nocturne
- Gaze Not Upon Her - Callimachus Poem Cycle
- His Final Play
- Thelma, Then Irma
- Street Scene - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- The Sleeper - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- The Friend of Orestes
- The Shipwreck's Gravestone - The Calllimachus Poem Cycle
- Times Four - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- He Comes Around - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- Suspicions - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- Walking Wounded - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- Knowing Not Whom I Love, Or Why - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- The Hunt - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- The Love Lorn - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- Matters of Taste - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- Catastrophe at Cyrene - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- Necromancy - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- The Little Plaque By the Garden Way - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- The Cenotaph - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- The Poor Man's Gravestone - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
- The Statue Speaks - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
BRETT RUTHERFORD POEMS POSTED BY TOPIC
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry
- Anna Akhmatova (translations)
- Anniversarius - cycle of autumn poems
- Astronomical poems
- Poems on Atheism
- Poems related to Barbara A. Holland
- Poems adapted or translated from Callimachus
- Poems adapted or translated from Meleager
- Poems about classical music
- Postings about Edgar Allan Poe
- Poems about Edinboro PA.
- Poems adapted or translated from Victor Hugo.
Books by Brett Rutherford
- By Night and Lamp: The World of Meleager
- It Has Found You: New Poems and Writings 2020-2021
- Pity the Dragon: Poems on Chinese Themes
- Callimachus at Alexandria: A Poem Cycle
- The Story of Niobe
- The Island of the Dead.
- The Inhuman Wave
- Fatal Birds of the Soul
- The Pumpkined Heart
- The Doll Without A Face
- Crackers At Midnight
- Anniversarius - The Book of Autumn
- The Gods As They Are, On Their Planets, 2nd ed.
- Prometheus on Fifth Avenue, 2nd edition.
- Things Seen in Graveyards
- Prometheus Chained
- Dr Jones & Other Terrors
- Trilobite Love Song
- An Expectation of Presences
- Whippoorwill Road - The Supernatural Poems
- Poems from Providence
- Twilight of the Dictators
- Night Gaunts - An Entertainment Based on the Life and Work of H. P. Lovecraft
FEATURED POETS
- Joel Allegretti
- Jody Azzouni
- Boruk Glasgow
- Emilie Glen
- Annette Hayn
- Barbara A. Holland
- Donald Lev
- D.H. Melhem
- Shirley Powell
- Brett Rutherford
- Jack Veasey
- Don Washburn
- Poe & Sarah Helen Whitman