St. Kevin and the Blackbird

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  • Опубліковано 15 гру 2024

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  • @11Bravo84
    @11Bravo84 Рік тому +9

    “Slender volumes of modern poetry “ I have never heard anyone say that in my life.❤

  • @johnburgess6572
    @johnburgess6572 10 місяців тому +3

    How many times do you get to have someone read to you !!!??? So glad I found this gentleman.

  • @DanielKellyFolkMusic
    @DanielKellyFolkMusic Рік тому +2

    Wonderful to come home to your fabulous reading Malcolm. I’ve been in Columbus Ohio as the international guest at a Filk music festival. One of my best memories is of the final singing circle where a musician put out percussion implements and asked us to make a sea soundscape. One of them was a rainstick! Which I got to play with while thinking of Heaney’s poem and your reading.

  • @JohnRutherford205
    @JohnRutherford205 Рік тому +5

    I've always very much liked this poem. St. Kevin's story is inspiring.

  • @KevinMakins
    @KevinMakins Рік тому +6

    A parishioner sent me this poem. She had worked off it as a poetry professor over many years. It helped me love my name, and helped me continue to put down good roots.

  • @aletheuo475
    @aletheuo475 Рік тому +3

    Beautiful. I've been contemplating the Farewell Discourse a lot recently (John 14-17) and considering the beauty of the Vine image. When we come to the Lord's Table, we partake of the physical fruit of the vine as we imbibe the sweet, gladsome nourishment of Our Lord's Presence. Lord, fill me with Thy swich liquor, that I may bear good fruit of True Righteousness and be not cast away. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

  • @nchips9012
    @nchips9012 Рік тому +5

    Thanks for sharing Malcolm. Incredibly, I was at Glendalough a couple of days ago - after visiting the Peterson pipe shop of course! - and went up to St Kevin's cell. It was a truly inspiring place with a beautiful view but I also found it awe inspiring to imagine the faith needed to live like they did back then.

  • @yusufsayed1583
    @yusufsayed1583 Рік тому +3

    Good Evening Professor 😊Beautiful 👏🏼 Thanks for Sharing 👍🏼 Have a Fantastic Weekend & Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦

  • @pfau1960
    @pfau1960 Рік тому +4

    Hi Malcom, good to see you on this platform, and thanks for posting this video. As it happens, I just finished teaching poems from this collection, including "St. Kevin," and also from the previous collection, "Seeing Things."

    • @MalcolmGuitespell
      @MalcolmGuitespell  Рік тому +1

      Thanks Thomas, the more I read Heany the greater he becomes in my estimation

  • @RafaelToscano
    @RafaelToscano 9 місяців тому

    Ooo I love the video of Seamus Heaney reading the poem. I saw this title and had to click and watch.

  • @adamhuntley3883
    @adamhuntley3883 Рік тому +3

    So lovely, dear poetry professor. Always lovely to stop by and learn a nugget and hear some great lines.

  • @mrcactus1769
    @mrcactus1769 Рік тому +1

    Love having an early morning pipe 🔥while watching your latest production. Thank you for your creativity and for sharing your knowledge Reverend. Best wishes. And happy piping to you.

  • @dancoomer8090
    @dancoomer8090 Рік тому +2

    Great job!! It is truly an honor to listen to you read these poems!!

  • @heatherseargeant3195
    @heatherseargeant3195 Рік тому +1

    oh... so refreshing to listen to you again, it has been a while. And, well, I am oh-so-pleased that your books and the space to come to us from is pleasantly disorganized and comfortably imperfect.

  • @hobbitonpiper
    @hobbitonpiper Рік тому +2

    Such vivid imagery. Loved this :)

  • @ellen823ful
    @ellen823ful Рік тому

    With Christmas 🎄 looming, for me it’s
    O Dear Lord! 😂

  • @rickybaker42
    @rickybaker42 Рік тому +1

    I’ve just stumbled upon your poetry via a pipe smoking interview with Matt Fradd (Pints with Aquinas).
    Your poem was, in my opinion, more lovely and profoundly stirring than Heaney’s. I am quite moved and feel I’ve uncovered a goldmine. Thank you

  • @erickregel6188
    @erickregel6188 Рік тому +9

    Regarding re-shelving of books:
    My Family- It's Saturday, let's clean the house. Dad, work on the basement where we keep the library.
    Dad- I'll work on the books first. Tidy it up!
    (8 Hours later)
    My Family- Where's Dad?

  • @danielosullivan3110
    @danielosullivan3110 Рік тому

    ❤ St Kevin ☘️

  • @tomaria100
    @tomaria100 11 місяців тому

    Thank you for introducing me to another poet! I appreciate his poem and yours.

  • @maggen_me7790
    @maggen_me7790 Рік тому +1

    Lovely💗

  • @wchops7578
    @wchops7578 Рік тому +3

    Wonderful poem!

  • @dannyboy7715
    @dannyboy7715 Рік тому +2

    And there was I thinking Kevin was a scarecrow 🤣

  • @joshuavalencia1583
    @joshuavalencia1583 Рік тому +6

    As a catholic and a freemason that bit about the spirit level and the plum line was very deep. It sounded very masonic. Loved the experts.... also a question in your tradition can we refer to you as father, reverend, or vicar what is the proper monicar. That I can refer to you properly in future comments.
    Ps I just found your vedios and I am thoroughly enjoying them. I am a 24 year old father of two from South Central Los Angeles. I started being a Dad when j was 18. Faith in our Lord is what has gotten me and mine this far. I am also a cigar and pipe smoker a hobby I learned from my grandpa and that has kept me out of alot of trouble. I like to think it has accompanied me in those moments of deep contemplation and growing up a young father must do. So this channel really resinates with me.

    • @MalcolmGuitespell
      @MalcolmGuitespell  Рік тому +1

      nice to hear from you, most call me Malcolm, but some do call me Father malcolm especially when I am preaching or celebrating the eucharist

    • @joshuavalencia1583
      @joshuavalencia1583 Рік тому

      @@MalcolmGuitespell Father Malcom it is.

    • @joshuavalencia1583
      @joshuavalencia1583 Рік тому

      @@MalcolmGuitespell We masons like our honorifics we got that from our European counterparts.

  • @Musrusticus-
    @Musrusticus- Рік тому

    Beautiful, thank you.

  • @emobloom
    @emobloom 9 місяців тому

    I identify with Kevin, because I am a Kevin!... and I've also got a bloody painful neck.
    Ps, this channel is truly good, thank you for it :)

  • @11Bravo84
    @11Bravo84 Рік тому +1

    Looking well Malcolm.❤

  • @donaldcatton4028
    @donaldcatton4028 Рік тому

    The dear man helps me forget my truly mindless prejudices…

  • @suzanne5781
    @suzanne5781 Рік тому +1

    I have just found your marvelous channel! Why have they stopped teaching poetry in schools here in Australia? This is wonderful!

  • @reaganwiles_art
    @reaganwiles_art Рік тому +1

    Always a surprise with you, Guite. Do you have any recommendations on good scholarship inti Mr. Punch? I come at this from a long lost reclaimed interest in Eshu Elegba from Nigerian culture. I am an artist and I want to make a a Punch puppet, but I want to know who he is.

    • @MalcolmGuitespell
      @MalcolmGuitespell  Рік тому +1

      he is part if the Punch and Judy puppet theatre. there is a good article here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy

  • @caroledrury1411
    @caroledrury1411 9 місяців тому

    I really love everything that you have expounded on that just want to know what do you think about Christopher Hitchens? Do you have any thoughts about that man

  • @colmmcnaughton2152
    @colmmcnaughton2152 11 місяців тому

    Have you read Heaney's work on "mad" sweeney, that's where the tree-peoples get a good working through...

  • @aletheuo475
    @aletheuo475 Рік тому +2

    Malcolm, I'm making an illuminated manuscript of Keats', 'To Autumn' and should very much like to send you a copy, or even the original. God bless.

    • @MalcolmGuitespell
      @MalcolmGuitespell  Рік тому

      That's very kind. Email me at malcolmguite 'at' gmail and I'll send you my address

  • @dannyboy7715
    @dannyboy7715 Рік тому

    I've got an idea Malcolm. How about a "pipe and Christ evening"? A few of us Norfolk locals come to your study with our pipes and tobacco, and have a good smoke while you teach us a bible study!

  • @ronfelix6507
    @ronfelix6507 8 місяців тому

    The slender reshelving of poetry, or was it
    Reshelving of slender poetry.
    Oh, what is it slender poetry that
    I must bother with it.
    I really must stop the clouds
    Of profound nonsense.
    I huff into the chair and send clouds
    And St Kenin and Blackbird into the air