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

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.

love hearing him reading poems aloud

I love what you said about constraints Malcolm. Over my career I've often said to colleagues, who know me to be somewhat innovative in problem solving, "show me the box and I'll think outside it..."
Your description captured my meaning precisely 😊

I paused this video 30 mins in and wrote a poem, something I haven't done in 5 years, I've called it 'Discovery' and is about my joys at discovery a healthy form of tobacco consumption:

A poisoned stick
it clung to me
I could not win
I could not see
A higher nature
came to be
It's subtle help
revealed to me

This presentation about poetry, verse and seeing words from the world unseen is brilliant. All of your examples were evocative, and inspirational. Thank you, Malcolm! Blessings to everyone. Please believe in your muse, and individual 'brilliance.'

This is wonderful, eye-opening, ear-opening guidance. Just what we writers need!

“ 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”.

What a wonderful man. Very relaxing listening to him speak

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!

This beautiful soul is a gift if we dare to hear beyond just the words themselves!

Holy smokes! Your villanelles are absolutely glorious and inspired❣️

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

Thank you so much offered here on so many levels.

Needed to hear this. Thank you Malcolm!

Thank you for the “gentleness”.

Differing words placed together, with '...the tension between each other, and the rediscovery that they need each other...'

That says it all.

I fell asleep to this video, and woke up very happy and I'm listening to it again immediately. Treasure.

Incandescent. Thank you, Malcolm.

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