Version 1.1. Updated February 20, 2023.
NEW POEMS POSTED AS WRITTEN
DECEMBER 2022
- x - adapted from Meleager.
- 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
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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.
Books by Brett Rutherford
- 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