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    • Trace Elements
    • Or What You Will
      • Or What You Will, some illustrations
    • Lent
      • Lent, some illustrations
    • An Informal History of the Hugos
    • The Just City
      • The Philosopher Kings
      • Necessity
      • Thessaly: Plato and Other Links
    • My Real Children
      • My Real Children: Covers and Titles
    • What Makes This Book So Great
    • Among Others
      • Thoughts on Foreign Covers and Titles
    • Lifelode
      • First Chapter of Lifelode
    • The Small Change Series
      • Farthing
      • Ha’penny
      • Half a Crown
    • Tooth and Claw
      • Other Covers
      • Those Who Favor Fire
    • Sulien’s World
      • The King’s Peace & the King’s Name
        • Bibliography
        • Genealogical Tables (Spoilers)
        • Thirty Sword
      • The Prize in the Game
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    • Love, Pain, and Death
      • A happy morning filled with pears
      • And love
      • Because you need your sleep (a very short love poem)
      • Belated Valentine
      • Bittersweet Harvest
      • Black Figs at the Villa d’Este, 28th August 2014
        • Green-striped Figs Outside the Ferry Building, San Francisco, 10th August 2015
      • Blood and Bone
      • Comfort In the Knowledge
      • Conquering Sleep
      • Death Sucks: A Sonnet Cycle
        • Death Continues to Suck
        • Death Sucks #5750
        • More Sting
        • Journey
        • On the Death of Danny Lieberman
        • Grief
        • Jay Lake 1964-2014
        • Death Just Sucks
        • On the Death of Marilyn Bremmer
        • Negatio Mori
        • Words of Comfort and Cheer (On the Deathbed of Greer Gilman’s Mother)
        • On the Death of Beth Meacham’s Father
        • Statistical Death Sucks
        • The world does not stay saved
        • Secular Humanist Comfort
        • Epicurean Death Sucks
        • On the Death of Louise Mallory’s Mother
        • David G. Hartwell, 1941-2016
        • On the death of Spider
        • On the Death of Velma de Selby Bowen
        • On the impending death of Morris Keesan
        • Yarnell Fire
        • On the Impending Death of Iain Banks
        • On the Death of Dr Michael Matthew Fiveash
        • Viking Ship Museum, Oslo
      • Doing Laundry on the Last Day of the World
      • E. Jane Jones 1923-2015
      • Evensong
      • Fabio Picchi 1954-2022
      • Friends
      • Galatia
      • Gill Goodridge 1926-2022
      • Henry Ellis “Harry” Hoad, 1897-1917
      • Hope Eyes
      • I want…
      • If the living do not remember the dead, who will?
      • Jenna Felice 1976-2001
      • John M. Ford Memorial: 27th October 2006
      • John M. Ford Sestina
      • Joy of Libraries
      • July 1911
      • Just a moment
      • K Poem
      • Keeping Going
      • Lies About Pain
      • Litany for Being Centered Through Pain
      • Married Love
      • Michelangelo, 1475-1564
      • Next Time I Fall in Love
      • Next Time I Fall in Love 2: For Laurie Penny
      • Night Thoughts
      • Non Serviam
      • Obsessed with Petrarch
      • Pain lacks plot: Haikus
      • Pegasus
      • Petrarch and Laura
      • Samian bowl
      • Secular Humanist Hymn
      • Shafts of Sunlight
      • Sleepless in New Orleans
      • Sometimes the sky is empty
      • Sophoniba
      • Spiral Sestina
      • The Death of Petrarch
      • The Grief of Apollo
      • The Hoard
      • The Muse Comes Back
      • The Purpose of Sonnets
      • The Soft Arguments of Time
      • Time Machine
      • To a young girl crying on the bus
      • Unbound
      • Unheard Sonnets
      • Ursula Le Guin
      • Ursula le Guin 1929-2018
      • Vast, Fleeting
      • Veiled Language
      • Verre/Vair
      • Vicious Nexus
      • Vivi per Sempre
      • What Persephone Knew
      • What to do with a crush?
      • When Everything Spirals Down
      • When You Dance
    • New Myths for Old Gold
      • A Fine Italian Hand
      • A Glimpse of the Muse on Papineau
      • Advice to Loki
      • An Oracle from Dionysos
      • Anchises
      • Andromache
      • Another Oracle from Dionysos
      • Ask to Embla
      • Ayfa’s Song
      • Bookstores of Heaven
      • Candlemass
      • Carnival Dragons
      • Cassandra
      • Electra to Orestes
      • Eucatastrophe Poem
      • Fisher King
      • Footfall (translation of Cavafy)
      • Grendel, Again
      • Hades and Persephone
      • I just changed one letter!
      • In Death’s Dark Halls, a Dog Howls
      • Is This the Face?
      • Jane Austen Among the Women
      • Keeping an eye out
      • Le Morte de MacArthur
      • Leap Saints
      • Lion Mother
      • Mary Madgalen
      • Medusa
      • Milton in Heaven
      • Nemi
      • New Hope Woman
      • Nine Things About Oracles
        • Eighty One Things About Oracles
        • What the Oracle Didn’t Tell You
      • Not in this town
      • Odin on the Tree
      • Owl Mother
      • Sappho beyond Hades
      • Sibyl
      • Sky Woman
      • Still Odin
      • Still Odin
      • Susan
      • The Assumption of St Jerome
      • The Chocolate Tarot
      • The Conception of Cuchulain
      • The Death of Llacheu ap Arthur
      • The Devil’s Party
      • The Ghosts of Time to Come
      • The Grief of Orpheus
      • The Love and the Oath
      • The Magic Animals of Heaven
      • The Ragnarok Song
      • The Weatherkeeper’s Diary
      • Twelve Missing Scenes From the Life of the Virgin
      • Yo, Bacchus!
      • Zedekiah in the Inner Chamber
    • Red as Blood
      • A Plausible Guess
      • After the Spindle
      • Blood Poem IV
      • Cendrillion Sunrise
      • Dragon’s Song
      • Lake Wife
      • Mari Llwyd
      • Night on Cadair Idris
      • North Wind
      • Off With the Fairies
      • Postcolonial Literature of the Elves
      • Raven Prince
      • Scorpio
      • The Cloud Mouth
      • The Head
      • The Lessons of Fairytales
      • The Old Queen
      • Three Bears Norse
      • Two Trolls and a Princess
      • What do Elves Smell Like?
      • What Dragons Learn From Fairytales
      • What Story Would You, Sir?
      • Wyrms
    • Shakespeare
      • Alternate Hamlet Sonnet
      • Arthur’s Bosom
      • Cardenio
      • Henry V Part II
      • Machiavelli and Prospero
      • Oregon Shakespeare Festival to rewrite Shakespeare
      • Stage Vs Screen
      • The Baseless Fabric of This Vision
      • The Poly Winter’s Tale
      • Thirteenth Night
      • This Spring, in Elsinore
      • To Shakespeare on his four hundredth anniversary
      • Wittenburg: A double sonnet
    • The News
      • “Pax in forma columba”
      • 1947
      • 9th November 2016
      • A tangle of wires
      • American Dream
      • Ares and Athene
      • Asa Loki, Under Glacier (Eyafjallajökull)
      • Between the li(n)es
      • Britannia
      • Calamita d’Italia, two translations
      • Car Parks and Kings
      • Cold Autumn Gales
      • Desmond
      • George Fox
      • Grim Dystopian Mazurka
      • Henry Kissinger 1923-2023
      • History is easy
      • Home Photos
      • How to Hide Treasure (For Khalid al-Asaad, 1932-2015)
      • In Time of Plague: Saturnalia
      • King George is Dead
      • Make Earth Great Again
      • Mall Poem
      • Moloch
      • Neighbours: Traditional Vernacular British Poem About Brexit
      • New Orleans Talking Blues
      • Not the Christmas Poem You Were Looking For
      • One of the victims was a ninety-seven year old woman
      • One Simple Thing
      • Posterity
      • Routine Morning
      • Ten Years Ahead: Oracle Poem
      • Terrible People
      • The Flight Into Egypt
      • The news
      • The Shell
      • The women outside the wall
      • To a friend planting bulbs today
      • Today you told me that the wolves came back
      • Today you told me that the wolves came back
      • Truth on Life Support
      • Tsunami
      • USA 2018
      • Villanelle
      • Vulcan’s Forge
      • Wayside Morning
      • F*k* News
    • By Their Spaceships Ye Shall Know Them
      • Alien Landing
      • An Old Poet Sees a New Star
      • By Their Spaceships Ye Shall Know Them
        • SETI
      • Cave Painters, Starship Dancers
      • Earth
      • I Reinvent Myself From Time to Time
      • My Mother Was a Methodist, My Father Was a Knife
      • Newton and Cromwell
      • Newton’s Dream
      • Nine Things About Heraclitus
      • People, Tech. Glory etc.
      • Photons
      • Pleiades
      • Scientific Method
      • Submersible Moonphase
      • The Winter Road
      • Through the Green Fuse
      • Translated from the Original
      • Under the Frond Trees
      • Water on the Moon
      • What Gods May Come?
      • When We Were Robots in Egypt
    • Places and Travel
      • A Foggy Morning in Esperanza Springs
      • Allegory of Good and Bad Government
      • Another Valley
      • Bargello
      • Early Morning, Saint Malo: Two sonnets
      • Earth (for Greer)
      • English Cemetery, Florence
      • Flying By Night
      • Hymn to Sardinian Apollo
      • Iceland (Day 2)
      • New Mexico Train Haikus
      • Next Talking Fish, Five Hundred Miles
      • Not a Selfie
      • O City, City
      • Paris
      • Prayer to Hermes
      • Salt and Alabaster
      • Sketching the Cloister of Santa Croce
      • Sonnets at the Source of the Sorgue
      • Spain Train Haikus
      • Starlings in Rome, November 2022
      • The Pantheon
      • The Vendors of Via dei Cerchi
      • Three Stops in Italy 2021
      • Travel Planning
      • Typhon at Ischia
      • Unnecessary Journeys in December
      • Unnecessary Journeys in December 2
      • What the Old Stones Say
      • Zephyr Moon
      • Eastward Zephyr Haikus
      • Jardin Botanique 17th April 2013
      • Zephyr Haikus (Things seen from the train 8th-10th March 2016)
      • Visiting France
      • Come if You Like
      • Adirondack Poem
    • The Turning Year
      • Solstice 2017
      • Happy New Year
      • A surprisingly long cake making poem
      • Moments
      • February 15th
      • Another Poem About the Weather
      • Venial Joys
      • Guy Outside Vendome Metro Handing Out Free Papers (trans)
      • Suddenly, Spring
      • Amroth III (Conversation with the Sea)
      • Jardin Botanique October 3rd 2005
      • The Real Season
      • Seasons Readings
      • Plea for Inclusivity in Nativity Scenes
      • The Hopes and Fears of All the Years
      • In Winter’s Heart
    • Whimsy
      • A Feminist Perspective on Glaciation
      • A Game of Consequences
      • Alarm Clock, see Zephyr (an imaginary index)
      • Alessandro Farnese
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      • Antiquity
      • Apep, the Snake God
      • Begin to Learn to Read the Sea
      • Blood Poem V
      • Crow on the Orient Express
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      • Dinosaurs Rarely Pray to Athena
      • Do Not Use N95 in Space!
      • Emily Dickinson’s “Howl!”
      • For Louise
      • From a Found Typo
      • Happy Birthday, Sherwood Smith!
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      • Interviewing the Sky
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      • Joy of Reading
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      • Lucy/Selendra
      • Nonsense Sonnet
      • Nonsense!
      • Off With Jack
      • On the compositional methods of Ada Palmer
      • Overrated
      • Ovid in Exile
      • Ponty Market
      • Proud Sappho
      • Rejoice!
      • Spam Poetry
      • St Francis Preaches to the Animals
      • The Destruction of Woking
      • The End of the World, in Duxford
      • The Godzilla Sonnets
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      • The Snows of Coney Weston
      • Time catches up with art catches up with time…
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      • Unusual Chameleons
      • Usenet 25th December 2006
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      • Where You Met Me
      • Yet Another Story ID
      • You said you sat for a bit, you didn’t say you wrote a poem!
      • “Perhaps the horse will learn to sing…”
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Home › Poetry › New Myths for Old Gold

New Myths for Old Gold

Poetry using mythology.

  • A Fine Italian Hand
  • A Glimpse of the Muse on Papineau
  • Advice to Loki
  • An Oracle from Dionysos
  • Anchises
  • Andromache
  • Another Oracle from Dionysos
  • Ask to Embla
  • Ayfa’s Song
  • Bookstores of Heaven
  • Candlemass
  • Carnival Dragons
  • Cassandra
  • Electra to Orestes
  • Eucatastrophe Poem
  • Footfall (translation of Cavafy)
  • Grendel, Again
  • Hades and Persephone
  • Hymn to Sardinian Apollo
  • I just changed one letter!
  • Iceland (Day 2)
  • In Death’s Dark Halls, a Dog Howls
  • Is This the Face?
  • Jane Austen Among the Women
  • Keeping an eye out
  • Le Morte de MacArthur
  • Leap Saints
  • Mary Madgalen
  • Medusa
  • Milton in Heaven
  • Nemi
  • New Hope Woman
  • Next Talking Fish, Five Hundred Miles
  • Nine Things About Oracles
  • Eighty One Things About Oracles
  • What the Oracle Didn’t Tell You
  • Not in this town
  • Odin on the Tree
  • Prayer to Hermes
  • Sappho beyond Hades
  • Sibyl
  • Sky Woman
  • Still Odin
  • Still Odin
  • Susan
  • The Assumption of St Jerome
  • The Chocolate Tarot
  • The Conception of Cuchulain
  • The Death of Llacheu ap Arthur
  • The Devil’s Party
  • The Ghosts of Time to Come
  • The Grief of Orpheus
  • The Love and the Oath
  • The Magic Animals of Heaven
  • The Ragnarok Song
  • The Weatherkeeper’s Diary
  • Twelve Missing Scenes From the Life of the Virgin
  • Yo, Bacchus!
  • Zedekiah in the Inner Chamber

Contact

  • Contact e-mail: bluejo@gmail.com
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Contact

  • Contact e-mail: bluejo@gmail.com
  • My Patreon — become a patron and sponsor my poetry

Books by Jo Walton

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Web Links

  • Buy Jo's books: Corsair (UK)
  • Buy Jo's Books: Tor (North America)
  • Jo Walton Audiobooks
  • Jo's Posts at Tor.com
  • Searchable index of Jo's Tor.com posts
  • Tor.com

Donate to Jo’s web hosting costs

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