More triolets

I've been getting a good response from contributors for the quarterly triolet review.

The only publicly-accessible part of triolets.org is the classic triolets (i.e. the ones which are out of copyright). When I release an issue of the quarterly triolet review, those will be added. But there are several triolets which are still live on the site (mostly mine), such as In depths of darkness, which aren't linked anywhere because they don't fall into either category. Of course they'll trickle in slowly if they're printed in the review, but I don't want to make it all about me, and it'll take years to get through them all. Maybe I need a new section for them.

I've added a few new old triolets to the site, including the rather silly The child is father to the man by Hopkins, and All women born by Bridges, which is so misogynistic I almost didn't include it even though it was written by the then Poet Laureate. Then I decided if he had opinions like that, it wasn't really something I wanted to hush up.

If you use Twitter, you can follow @triolets to get a random triolet every day (and similarly for identi.ca).

Recessional hymn

One of my dad's favourite songs is I'll never find another you by The Seekers. He said to me once that the tune would make a good hymn, and I've been turning the idea over in my mind, and here it is. This is a recessional hymn, i.e. it's for the end of a service. I didn't do the bridge, because hymns don't have bridges.

I like the way this came out, because it has the traditional trinitarian structure without explicitly naming names. Obviously it would be difficult actually to use the hymn, because of the copyright on the tune.

When you made this planet,
you saw it at its best,
for a week you laboured
then brought it to a rest;
you designed the whole creation
to rest and labour too,
and Lord, we pray our lives will mirror you.

When you walked this planet
you saw it at its worst,
and in all our troubles
you bore the burden first;
for you trod the path before us
in everything we do,
and Lord, we pray our lives will mirror you.

When you stir within us
you see us as we are;
as we face temptation
your word is never far;
for within our hearts you've written
your message through and through,
and Lord, we pray our lives will mirror you.