Tag: Malcolm Guite

Poem for Easter Sunday – 2026

And now he blesses hers who stood and wept
And would not be consoled, or leave her love’s
Last touching place, but watched as low light crept
Up from the east…

—“Easter Dawn” by Malcolm Guite1

NOTES:
1) Malcolm Guite, “A Sonnet for Easter Dawn,” April 20, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 15, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/a-sonnet-for-easter-dawn-9/
2) Word in the Wilderness: A poem a day for Lent and Easter by Malcolm Guite, https://canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781848256781/word-in-the-wilderness

Poem for Palm Sunday – 2026

Oh crowds of easy feelings make a start;
They raise their hands, get caught up in the singing,
And think the battle won. Too soon they’ll find
The challenge, the reversal he is bringing
Changes their tune.

—“Palm Sunday” by Malcolm Guite1

NOTES:
1) Malcolm Guite, “Palm Sunday: A Sonnet,” April 13, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 15, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/palm-sunday-a-sonnet-10/
2) Word in the Wilderness: A poem a day for Lent and Easter by Malcolm Guite, https://canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781848256781/word-in-the-wilderness

Poem for Fifth Sunday of Lent 2026

And there the logical hook
On which the Mystery is impaled and bent
Into an ideological argument.

—“The Incarnate One” by Edwin Muir 1 2

NOTES:
1) Edwin Muir, “The Incarnate One,” Poeticous, accessed March 15, 2026, https://www.poeticous.com/edwin-muir/the-incarnate-one
2) Edwin Muir, “The Incarnate One,” All Poetry, accessed March 15, 2026, https://allpoetry.com/The-Incarnate-One
3) Malcolm Guite, “Palm Sunday: A Sonnet,” April 13, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 15, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/palm-sunday-a-sonnet-10/
4) “A poem for the fifth Sunday in Lent (Passion Sunday), 2022,” Coffeehouse Junkie, April 3, 2022, accessed March 15, 2026, https://coffeehousejunkie.net/2022/04/03/a-poem-for-the-fifth-sunday-in-lent-passion-sunday-2022/

Poem for Fourth Sunday of Lent 2026

All things without, which round about we see,
We seek to know, and how therewith to do;
But that whereby we reason, live, and be,
Within ourselves we strangers are thereto.

—“Nosce Teipsum” by Sir John Davies1

NOTES:
1) Sir John Davies, “Nosce Teipsum,” Poetry Foundation, accessed March 15, 2026, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57129/nosce-tiepsum-of-human-knowledge
2) Malcolm Guite, “Week 4: Know Thyself: John Davies and Tennyson,” March 30, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 8, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/week-4-know-thyself-john-davies-and-tennyson-10/
3) “A poem for the fourth week of Lent (Laetare Sunday), 2022,” Coffeehouse Junkie, March 27, 2022, accessed February 13, 2026, https://coffeehousejunkie.net/2022/03/27/a-poem-for-the-fourth-week-of-lent-laetare-sunday-2022/

Poem for Third Sunday of Lent 2026

I knew, always, that I would be a worker in the vineyard,  
as are all men and women living at the same time,   
whether they are aware of it or not.

—“Late Ripeness” by Czeslaw Milosz1

NOTES:
1) Czeslaw Milosz, “Late Ripeness,” Poetry Foundation, accessed March 8, 2026, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49453/late-ripeness
2) Malcolm Guite, “Week 3: Dante and the Companioned Journey,” March 23, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 8, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/week-3-dante-and-the-companioned-journey-10/
3) Word in the Wilderness: A poem a day for Lent and Easter by Malcolm Guite, https://canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781848256781/word-in-the-wilderness

Poem for Second Sunday of Lent 2026

You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.

— “Postscript” by Seamus Heaney1

NOTES:
1) Seamus Heaney, “Postscript,” July 21, 2019, Poetry Daily, accessed March 1, 2026, https://poems.com/poem/postscript/
2) Malcolm Guite, “WEEK 2 Deepening the Life of Prayer,” March 16, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 1, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/week-2-deepening-the-life-of-prayer-10/

Poem for First Sunday of Lent 2026

I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field….
I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it…1

“The Bright Field” by R. S. Thomas

NOTES:
1) R. S. Thomas, “The Bright Field,” All Poetry, accessed February 22, 2026, https://allpoetry.com/poem/14375129-The-Bright-Field-by-Ronald-Stuart-Thomas
2) Malcolm Guite, “Word in the Wilderness Week 1: The Pilgrimage Begins,” March 9, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed February 22, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/word-in-the-wilderness-week-1-the-pilgrimage-begins-6/ 
3) Word in the Wilderness: A poem a day for Lent and Easter by Malcolm Guite, https://canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781848256781/word-in-the-wilderness