Tag Archives: Malcolm Guite

Jesus as the Flame within the Flame

By Robin Bates | Published: November 23, 2024

A Malcolm Guite sonnet to celebrate “Christ the King Sunday.” The poet offers other metaphors than “king,” which is fine by me.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 24, 2024

Few poems better capture for me that vision of God’s heaven on earth than Blake’s “The Divine Image.”

By Robin Bates | Published: July 6, 2024

Guite traces an old oaken altar back to the tree out of which it was made, which also blessed the elements.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 11, 2024

Poet’s writing about the Ascension often focus on our tangled lives.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 27, 2024

The Bible has multiple passages about shepherds who fail their sheep/ congregations. These two poems by Guite and Moss do the same.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 26, 2023

Malcolm Guite captures the beauty of St. Peter’s impulsive behavior.

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By Robin Bates | Published: June 3, 2023

Maybe, to understand the Trinity, we need poets like Malcolm Guite.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 25, 2023

For Lent this year, I am taking on Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” I hope to gain new insight into the nature of fictional engagement.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 28, 2023

Micah’s instructions and Jesus’s “Sermon on the Mount” function themselves as poems. Guite has his own poem about Jesus’s sermon.