Tuesday 11 June 2019

Three Triolets

Triolet: Atheism

You sleep, you eat, you dump, you sleep,
Time after time, and then you die,
As helpless as the birds or sheep.
You sleep, you eat, you dump, you sleep.
And though you clamber from the deep
To grasp the beauties of the sky,
You sleep, you eat, you dump, you sleep,
Time after time, and then you die.
 

Triolet: Quicunque Vult

   Whosoever will be saved
Must embrace the Catholic Faith,
   Saints, street-hawkers, the depraved;
   Whosoever will be saved
   On his heart must wear engraved
“Triune God, be Thou my breath.”
   Whosoever will be saved
Must embrace the Catholic Faith.
 

Triolet: Remembrance

Loves long lost, like primrose scent,
Trouble remembrance year by year,
Heart-reminding what hearts then meant;
Loves long lost, like primrose scent,
With hoarded scoffs and joys are blent
So every laugh becomes a tear.
Loves long lost, like primrose scent,
Trouble remembrance year by year.

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