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

• Introduction to the poems of Meleager.

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

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