My mom had found some of my poetry I wrote as a teen, and showed me when I visited for Thanksgiving in 2023. I read it, and was amazed at how good it was. That was revealing for me....I have discounted myself and my creative abilities over the years, had it "beat" out of me by my job and significant others which should not have been so significant. I have been much more introspective lately, and I know I will soon go back to who I really am and was created to be. Thank you for posting Malcom's talk to your channel, he has been so inspiring for me.

You are opening my very soul to the glory of poetry...something I have not known before. I struggle with “imagination”. I love to hear you read your work. It is a gift to me. I am blessed.

53 years of trying to understand poetry and all I needed was 39 minutes listening to Malcolm. Thank you.

Wow, I love your wisdom. I am a musician and i feel like I have gotten so much out of this, thank you and God Bless you in Jesus name!

Malcolm, this is my poem about romantic love that Williams might have liked. Your Word Your Word it washes over me spreading waves of Heaven’s reality, and in what seems to be only a change of my mind, I find I am part of disassembled time. How slowly the lamplight seems to pass on by, as one continuous procession of light, before my unguarded wondering eyes. So wrapped inside this blissful feeling your Word has raised in me, the reason for its boundless being I only now begin to see. My silence holds the Truth - the Christ I feel in thee - your Word is seeding Rapture that blooms inside of me. And so I sit and watch golden mists of light as we ride by and I find, that we are one indivisible part, of God Who is ever our Word . . our Love . . Divine.

Amazing analogy about window and icon

I’ve been writing since primary school. Largely in secret-poetry, short stories, essays. Oddly, I always had grade As in drama, English and German. I fell into sport and became a first rate rugby player and athlete, and then morphed into a scientist. After world travel, I parked in Canada where I moved into IP law where my love of worlds was rekindled. Then cancer came knocking and I found solace in theEnglish canon. Also, I began writing for fun. I guess my style on reflection is black/comic humour. Shelley,Wordsworth,sassoon, and Coleridge are my poetic muses.

Thank you so much offered here on so many levels.

Just lovely. Thank you so much for the teachings and the poety readings, dear Malcom.

Thank you for the “gentleness”.

"It looks more like an Indian god than a photocopier" killed me.

YOUR POTETRY IS JAMMING MY MACHINE!

Grateful for your talks on poetry and the knowledge that comes with imagination ❤️

Thank you Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields! Thank you, Poet Malcolm!

Wow! This is marvellous. Wondrous stuff! So helpful. Thank you, Malcolm, and SMitFC. I must listen to this again because my brain began to leak after 20 mins.

"Gaucho" is one of the best albums ever made and is all drum machine.

Incandescent. Thank you, Malcolm.

“ underlying patterns” speak to my heart of the heartbeat of all creation…and perhaps, as a little book once taught me, it leads me to listen for the “Heartbeat of God”.

Much of this, learning about the little byways of poetry, has been lovely to hear. Much thanks too,Malcolm, for the reference to the Villanelle, which I've spend the morning reading about. I never knew Joyce was a one of the first to use the form,, and it wasn't, as I naively assumed, on the sound of the name, some kind of troubadour rhyming scheme of yesterday years.

Not since high school some 50 years ago have I heard anything close to this. Where have I been! I feel welcome back. With encouragement like this, I might try my hand at some lines. ❤️💙

What a poetic way of writing a poem, asking of the friends of the words one has in mind, brilliant. I've written and write loads of poems and never thought to do it this way.

You astound

You have captured so well my love for the sonnet form. I really like your fable about Window and Icon! Isn't "spell" also the word for story in the Anglo-Saxon? You may be seeing some comments from me on some of your older videos, like this one-- For me, watching your videos is drinking sweet water from a newly discovered well.

Malcolm, your best video yet.

Where did you begin, and how did you become the poet priest that you are?

This will help me in my songwriting. Thanks, years later.

You make my soul smile 🙂

Interesting, He mixed Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 with Sonnet 30. Did he realize this or did he misremember? Or more likely, I didn't understand his talk. lol. Love the idea of words being redeemed and redeeming him. Then thought of Jesus being called The Word. The Redeemer, The Word, The Christ.

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I know you love S.T.C, but if I didn't know, I would've guessed between 10:00 and 11. Perfect summary of S.T.C's view.

Malcolm you are a living anachronism.

36:12 Who is George Habado? I couldn’t find him on the web. I’m probably spelling his name incorrectly.

Few of my poems are a doddle, lol

I think Dylan Thomas would have liked your villanelle, especially if he had to divine the definition and existence of a photocopy machine from your words. A fitting payback for Altarwise by Owl Light, whose meaning still escapes me. 😂