She took a Branch... Simply Marvelous 🌹

Safe travels Malcolm. Found your channel recently and its been a joy to catch up with all of your videos.

I love how the ship is revealed in mystical layers, formed as if each piece adds or is linked to or created by the next part like a mysterious, wonderful puzzle. Cheers to the medieval carol that inspired you to explore that. I love the joy it brings you to tell this story. It brings us joy to hear it. Thank you Malcolm. Safe travels.

On those last words, my heart is risen and so full! Thank you so much for this reading! ❤️💙

So beautiful Malcolm… thank you for taking the time to read these things and share them with us. God bless you. Safe travels:)

It's beautiful Malcolm! I love the encouragement of a fellowship sharing with each other about the grace they have received.

Absolutely lovely what you wrote!

Good to see you and hear you read another excerpt from this exciting work! Safe travels as you ride to “defend what was, and the dream of what could be.”

I want to hear/read more of this!! It's so alive and clear and beautiful. I hope I get to hear you speak live here in Nashville some time!

Brilliant. Rich. Like maple syrup dripping from your lips.

Fantastic! Can't wait for this to be published so I can have it!

So rich with symbolic imagery and lush rhyme. I feel I need to hear it a few times just to begin to absorb the Arthurian and Biblical allusions. An epic poem for our times! All the young poets and listeners should memorize it and speak it on buses and hillsides, under their breath or shouting! (It is something of a mystery, so far, why our species can remember great numbers of rhyming and sonorous lines. My mother and her friend could, at 90, recall long passages of Chaucer in Middle English that they'd memorized when they were 16, when they couldn't, in the sundowning everning, remember how to plug a fan in, or turn it on) Have a wonderful time in Nashville--lots of music there, also humidity!

@MalcolmGuitespell

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Thanks so much. It is my great hope that some day people will recite bits of my poem to one another just for the joy of it

The other night I had a dream that I got to walk and chat with you as we smoked our pipes. What a blessing that was.

Beautiful writing! Enjoying the Arthurian foray! Have a safe trip to the US!

So thankful this is recorded and I can listen to it as many times as I like! Beautiful.

Beautiful! So full. I will pass it on to some of my good friends.

Well done! Well done! I’m late to the venture…but well done 🥲!

Wow! I can't wait to read the finished work!

Enchanting . Thankyou for sharing and reading so soulfully 🙏🏻

That was absolutely beautiful! Well written, well read.....

Verba aurea! Thank you, Rev. Dr. Guite!

I thoroughly enjoy our visits in your study, as well as your poetry, observations and outlook.

Safe travels Malcolm.

Beautiful poem. Have a good journey to the states.

👏 👏👏👏 Bravo! Lovely poem. The interaction of Galahad and Dendreyne has deeply sacramental overtones - absolution, confirmation and even holy orders. And she is the bishop in the narrative…if I may wax whimsical. Enjoy Nashville. Not a place l have visited during my sojourns in the USA but I believe it’s a fascinating city.

@MalcolmGuitespell

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Thanks and yes that sacramental element was what I was aiming at

Mr. Guite, the great English ruralist Ronald Blythe turns 100 this coming November. Would love to hear you comment on his work, especially the marvelous 'Wormingford' books. Hope you have a lovely State-side visit!

@MalcolmGuitespell

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I admire his work greatly. I am his successor at the Church Times: his Word from Wormingford has now become my Poet’s Corner. They are big shoes to try to fill

Going to Vanderbilt? I used to date the senior communications director for the hospital. She's from Thetford! We dated in high school in NC, USA. Her uncle was my dentist. Her husband is a tenured prof. of robot engineering at Vanderbilt. Anyway, I'd love an autograph of yours. Not many real poets in the world, you are one.

@MalcolmGuitespell

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Not yet been to Vanderbilt I’m afraid

That was absolutely beautiful. Your enthusiasm is contagious, I feel like the "Knights of God" is a sadly naglected one in this age of scepticism. I felt strong Tolkien "vibes" with the sword of kinslaying, and the three golden hairs. I suppose it is due to the fact that Tolkiens work itself is full of Arthurian references and themes.

@MalcolmGuitespell

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Yes, we’ll observed. I was alluding to Tolkien and we were both alluding to Malory

Brilliant!

Blessings in Nashville.

Have a safe trip to Nashville.

Another beautiful part of the poem written, Malcolm! I quite loved the Tolkien references. I hope you enjoy your time in the States. Safe travels! Is there any possibility of another spell when you land?

Make sure to visit the Parthenon in Nashville. It's great.

I must vgorously AGREE 👍

I believe that people who stick their nose in books are very lucky people not witholding very happy.

What a beautiful excerpt of what is sure to be a masterwork. Quick question What of your experiences of fountain pens? I've been collecting for 25 years and some very expensive..But then I've retired and no longer use in this day and age. Still can't part with them

@perceptionmanagement2116

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Join a pen pal club. Writing letters is great for your brain. And fountain pens need to be used!

@MalcolmGuitespell

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I mostly use a Parker Sonnet but I have also had a good Waterman now sadly lost

Hello Malcolm. I so cherish your videos, thank you! I am wondering if you could tell me what version of the Malory you are working with? I am sure you have mentioned the particulars somewhere but I can’t find it now. Thanks again.

@dalenelson8254

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In case Malcolm misses your request, what with getting ready for travels and all -- I'll bet that he's using Caxton's version of Malory, rather than the Winchester Manuscript. An inexpensive way to get the Caxton version -- which was THE version for centuries -- is the Penguin Classics edition in two paperback volumes. I'm not sure if the edition they have in print now is the same as the old pair I have, but that old version was a good buy, introduced, by the way, by C. S. Lewis's colleague and friend, the medievalist John Lawlor.

@chaise_levy_storyteller

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@@dalenelson8254 Thank you Dale!

@dalenelson8254

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@@chaise_levy_storyteller Especially for a first-time reader of Malory, bogging down can be a hazard at a couple of points, Arthur's war with Rome and the Tristram material. For quite a few years, I introduced students to the "best of Malory" by assigning the following pages of the one-volume Oxford World's Classics edition of the Winchester Manuscript. Malory Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript Oxford World’s Classics ISBN 0192824201 We read as follows: Malory: xxxi-iii, 3-80; first paragraph on 95, 118-119, middle of 167 (Gareth and Lancelot); 281-527 (351-372 may be skimmed). Notes on the Morte begin on page 531. Read those pages and you'll have a grasp of the Merlin and Sword in the Stone story, the account of the hapless Balin, the romance of Lancelot and Guinevere, the Grail quest, the Last Battle.

@MalcolmGuitespell

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Yes I’m using the Caxton version!

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