The Green Man!

In this ‘Spell’ I read to you from David Russel Mosley’s collection’The Green Man’
you can check out his site and more about his book here: www.davidrussellmosley.com
Many thanks to all of you who have encouraged me with coffee and cake! the page from which you can do that is here: www.buymeacoffee.com/malcolmg...

[@RedcoatsReturn]

As old as the World…The Green Man is nature‘s gaze Ever reborn in many faiths and pagan praise He is the oldest God of life and birth …and we best heed his wishes for this sacred Earth! 🐲

[@risin4949]

Wonderful

[@dalepiper6693]

Very powerful…”so the Earth became the Holy Grail’…thanks for sharing with your usual wonderful enthusiasm.

[@risin4949]

What an interesting and very likable man Malcolm is. How I wish that I was a neighbour or friend and could drop by and sit in that wonderful room and talk of books and all manner of things with him.

[@theendofeverything6356]

Always look forward to your videos, sir. Keep up the very good work.

[@tombroughton6757]

Poetry needs "to kindle new poems". I quite agree. Well said.

[@hierodeaconpartheniosmille9376]

Thank you, Malcolm, for sharing so much knowledge and joy. May God bless you!

[@songhero5372]

I find that last poem hits a chord of reality, Iloved it's beauty!

[@ciararespect4296]

Your 'library and room looks very much like my first piano teacher. A very elderly gentleman with poetry books everywhere on shelves and in glass bookcases etc. He taught me the basics of piano when very young and I also enjoy poetry. Now. Thanks to him. He must've passed as i should imagine was seveny back in the seventies

[@Arnot517]

Hello, I have never told anyone what I saw in 1997 while waiting for a friend to return to their home, I was at the kitchen table and began to notice crows flying in to a neighbors trees that were above a stone wall, odd I thought that the crows were so frequently coming and going to this location. A few days later, there was a large bright Red light beam aimed toward me, I don't see how anyone could have seen me in the neighboring house as I could only see the trees above that wall. A short time later I was in another part of this house and looked out the window and was shocked to see a "man" sitting high up upon a branch and looking right at me. He was just under my height of 5'4 ( I believe) was all of one color, a sage green from head to foot, his clothing were the same shade. We looked at each other for at least 3 seconds then, before my eyes he dissolved into three small branches crossed on to the larger branch in which he sat. When I later returned to that same house and looked out the same window, I was shocked at how far the branch in which he sat actually was from the ground, with no lower branches for climbing. I ;am a Christian who had no interest in drugs, drink or smokes, Do you have Any idea what was the point of this odd experience ?

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

It's hard to interpret, sometimes we project a shape into the leaves, but sometimes, I believe we can glimpse, in almost human form, the spirit of the tree. As with all visionary experience I would advise you bring it to christ in prayer, and sense from him what it means, whether it is an illusion to leave behind, or else perhaps another glimpse of christ himself. Never be afraid to bring any experience to Christ

[@esotericsolitaire]

My son was outside at school having lunch with his friend (both first graders) when they noticed a short, green figure staring at them from the shrubs. They jumped up to investigate when the little fellow turned and fled. They chased him into the forest, where he disappeared. My son is now 28-years-old and swears they told the truth. The little green fella was not imagined.

[@rubywilcox7405]

Lovely! Thank you!

[@michaelkelleypoetry]

Just ordered myself a copy of Mosley's collection. As Dale said, that last line, "so the Earth became the Holy Grail", is so powerful. These little visits have rekindled poetry in me. I used to write poetry all the time in both high school and college, but went through a dry discouraging period in which I didn't write for years. Since the beginning of 2020 over a year ago when I came across your channel, I've filled up a notebook. I've also devoured four of your poetry anthologies, "The Singing Bowl", "Sounding the Seasons", "Word in the Wilderness", and "Love, Remember." I'm currently working my way through "David's Crown", and plan on going through "Waiting on the Word" this December.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Thanks Michael - that's very encouraging - glad you're enjoying the channel and the books

[@davidknox5929]

Same here.

[@risin4949]

Just got mine too. I am going to Snowdonia next week. I think I will read it there.

[@DanielKellyFolkMusic]

Huzzah! The L-brackets are in! Lovely to hear from the poets you have inspired.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Yes! Thank you!

[@zita-lein]

Loved this! I’m inspired to get more of my pictures up! ❤️💙

[@davidknox5929]

You are clearly a big Ross Wilson fan,Malcolm.

[@couchescounselling]

Thanks for being you Malcolm!

[@Screwtape316]

I'm not sure even I believe in Jungian synchronicity, but just two days ago, a very respected friend shared a quote with me from Sergei Bulgakov, and it nearly matched this...but Bulgakov wrote in 1932! It was cited in Michael Martin's & Adrian Pabst's "The Submerged Reality: Sophiology and the Turn to a Poetic Metaphysics". Martin notes in his reflections on Bulgakov, "The whole world is the Holy Grail, for it has received into itself and contains Christ’s precious blood and water. The whole world is the chalice of Christ’s blood and water; the whole world partook of them in communion at the hour of Christ’s death. And the whole world hides the blood and water within itself. A drop of Christ’s blood dripped upon Adam’s head redeemed Adam, but also all the blood and water of Christ that flowed forth into the world sanctified the world. The blood and water made the world a place of the presence of Christ’s power, prepared for the world for its future transfiguration, for the meeting with Christ come in glory. . . . The world has become Christ, for it is the holy chalice, the Holy Grail."

[@TheEnchantedPipeSmoker]

I actually wrote the poem in response to Bulgakov's essay, The Holy Grail.

[@Screwtape316]

@@TheEnchantedPipeSmoker okay...you just sold another book! LOL

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

wow! that's a fantastic quotation!

[@TheEnchantedPipeSmoker]

@@Screwtape316 Well, those are words I like to hear!

[@doozle5132]

Beautiful poems, well read. You have a good voice.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

thanks!

[@ericdodds4990]

More about The Green Man, please!

[@alibongo5545]

💚💚💚✨

[@Bradford.C.Wallsbury]

I've yet to read Thomas the Rhymer but i love the currents of it(/him) through Ted Hughes and Coleridge's poetry. Hughes has an uncollected poem that 'retells' it, in a kind-of Crow-like form (also reminscent of Gaudete): 'Thomas the Rhymer's Song' When you are old enough to love, You'll be taken prisoner, By the blossom of apple and pear, In the pink shade of the cherry. The feathery grass, and the garden seat, And the sweet blackbird and all your other torturers, Will make merry, With the poor heart in your breast, As they did with others in the past, When you are old enough to love. When you are old enough to love, Beware of the chestnut's smouldering flowers, Its great glove leaves, And its flowers. The hanging mask of the chestnut will undo your body like a parcel, And give it to somebody else, On the path growing greyly beneath it, As a present, and a toy. Thomas was walking in the fume of the thorn, When out of the orchard smiling came, A Lady with a knife of flame, Oh there he met love's pain! As she stripped the flesh from his bones, And nailed his heart to a tree, Where it shall ever be, Where it shall ever be! [Ted Hughes - Collected Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 2003), pg. 628-629.] Gruesome... Best of wishes out in the new home, near new rivers!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

that's very powerful - I didn't know that one

[@matthewstokes1608]

That is extraordinary, actually... Thanks! And thanks as always to Malcolm G. for bringing me here again - all the way from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico! What a marvellous world we live in for all its detractors. God Bless.

[@risin4949]

Never seen this before. Incredibly powerful, beautiful. Thank you.

[@LaneyandherGermanShepherds]

Davey lived down the street from me.

[@toddscout5014]

I was looking for the wonderful picture of Gandalf smoking a pipe with Frodo that you have…Are you going to hang it in the new place? Wonderful video Sir. Have a blessed weekend!

[@lookouthumanitarian]

That is a beautiful pipe, which mode Peterson is that? That is very similar to one I have my eye on when funds allow! You are very inspiring and your videos bring a great deal of enjoyment to myself and also everyone I ever then show them to. Hopefully one day can have a bowl of good tobacco and a glass of something and play some music . Until then may your tobacco smoke cleanly and evenly, may your lighter never run out of petrol and may your quill never run out of ink.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Thanks. I mainly smoke Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipes

[@jaobVG]

green man!

[@samuelgregg3773]

I thoroughly enjoyed the poetry you shared-as always-but I must stop to say that I love your David Jones art! Jones played a big part in my MA focus area, and I have been hoping to acquire a print or two to commemorate those studies. However, I have found it difficult to locate what I am looking for. Any tips as to where I should search?

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Theres a shop in Cambridge called Cambridge books and prints that sometimes has them

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Like JOhn Barleycorn too, who gets cut down and springs again.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

yes indeed, I had that folk song in mind!

[@cuchulain55]

tom bombadil is tolkien s green man! and tolkien even probably eve met the green man in real life, when a stranger came to visit him asking about photos in switzerland if theyd beeen an influence to him.

[@aperennialdigression5698]

I smiled quite wide at the statuette of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Speaking of green men, you've got to tell me if you go see The Green Knight, and what you think of it should you do so.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

haven't seen it yet but I'll let you know

[@Vanic00]

I found an original middle English book of Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by Tolkien himself!!!!

[@KhasAdun1990]

Is Tom Bombadil a Green Man?

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

I think there's a bit of the green man in there!

[@francescafoot9739]

Do you know Charles Causley's rather disturbing green man poem?

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

no I must check it out

[@chrisbeveridge3066]

Kingsley Amis wrote a book entitled the green man... a contemporary ghost story...very good...check it out... thanks for turning me on to Orpheus and CS Lewis wartime sermons...I love the Discarded Image by Lewis... later

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

I will check it out

[@chrisbeveridge3066]

@@MalcolmGuitespell I watched your video regarding the Rain Stick poem this past Sunday and on Monday here in Rochester New York (where we are experiencing a severe draught )we were blessed with a delicious down pour which lasted the entire day! please! upend the rainstick! I'm certain there is a connection.you are a mighty shaman Malcom! Thank you!