A sad country song
Plays on the radio
While my mind wonders,
“Do these endless country roads
Of life ever end?”
(C) Carly Wiggins 2018
Message In Stanza
Poetry and Musings
A sad country song
Plays on the radio
While my mind wonders,
“Do these endless country roads
Of life ever end?”
(C) Carly Wiggins 2018
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Rushing to see you
A stop on the way
I’ll buy you some flowers
To brighten your day
You’ve always loved them
Known their beauty
I’ll gift you some flowers
Your joy that I’ll see
Last moments of sharing
With tears that we’ll cry
You’ll speak of the flowers
The last that I’ll buy
Then I will leave you
At heaven’s door
I’ll send you with flowers
To the One you adore
For rest of my journey
You’ll speak to me
I’ll see you in flowers
Of greater beauty
Joy brings gratitude
It helps you shift your attitude
Your walk a thin line
With your cynicism
Sometimes it’s blind protection
There are no missiles
Coming your way
Just launching from your direction
The very thing you’re afraid never happens
But you are left with shame
I never meant to be so cold
I let my past take ahold
My past happened
But the present is getting ignored
And my future is at risk of a lack of joy
Just like every human I want peace
Is there to grab
But I treat like a toy
This object of my attention can be replaced
The GIJoe is lost and the Barbie’s head is missing
My innocence is lost
God, please forgive me
Truth and destiny… deliver me
(C) Carly Wiggins 2017
I love the little things in life
The way the windchimes
Drone in the summer night
Fusing noise with the bullfrogs
That’s was my little paradise
I had a house in a small town
Behind it was a bayou
Those summer days were serene
And the sights that accompanied it
A big channel of murky water
Flowed behind us
With snakes and alligators
Katy has changed so much
When I visit the noises are replaced
By car noises and dogs barking
I miss the quiet solitude
It’s so hard to find these days
I know change is inevitable
But let me hold on to the memories
Of seeing rice fields and old run down mills
The relics are always embedded in my heart
When I visit, I’ll try to look for clues of the past
(C) Carly Wiggins 2018
The vinyl spins round and round
While you are lost in the sound
Vinyl may seem old school
But I still think it’s cool
From the U2, Beatles to the Beach Boys
These records are my pride and joy
There is such a warm feeling
That brings tremendous healing
If you haven’t tried vinyl
Give it a chance for a while
You may be surpised
That vinyl is back on the rise
(C) Carly Wiggins 2018
Here is something from a while back enjoy!
The womb is the beginning of life. And the beginning of life is a volcano bursting from within. All the energy spiraling inside is thrusting into life to the point of overflowing out.
If there is life on other planets, are they as weird and realistic as ours? But sometimes life seems like a dream and I thought the characters in my dream were real and I “wake up” to another reality to where those characters are no longer to be found. At times, life was a nightmare, and was grateful.
But I am also sad because the love I have experienced was so magnificent and above all, so vivid.
I know what true reality is but sometimes I wish my dreams were the true reality instead of my life here on Earth. But sometimes I am thankful for what I have. You know?
Did I choose this fate or did it choose me? Did fate bless me or not? Some days I am not so sure.
But what keeps me pressing forward is this ignition in my heart that tells me that it’s all worth it the end. This life force. I also experience it as a creative spark.
© Carly Wiggins 2017
I have been really inspired by Psalm 31:23-24 in The Message translation.
It reads:
“Love God, all your saints. God takes care of all who stay close to Him, But He pays basic in full those arrogant enough to go it alone. Be brave. Be strong. Don’t give up Expect God to get here soon.”
How many read those verses and feel comforted, as well as convicted? We love that the Holy Scripture promises that God will, “take care of all who stay close to Him.” But also heed the warning call: “But He pays back in full those arrogant enough to go it alone.”
I have been in both positions. In this current season of my life. I swim somewhere in the middle and God wants to pick a side. (Revelation 3:16). It’s better to pick a side than float somewhere in between.
Naturally, the older I get, the more I aware I am of the presence of pain. I am also aware of how vital it is to give everything to God, in an ever-changing, beautiful, but sometimes volatile world in which in we live in.
Sanctus Real has a song called, “The Way the World Turns” and I believe it captures this point of beauty and pain nicely.
“And I feel the current pulling me down/Can’t keep the world from turning/ so I keep turning to you/‘Cause you’re the hope of a new sunrise/Breaking over a desperate life/And I keep turning to you/I keep turning to you.”
The more desperate our lives our, the more we need God. It’s not just a good idea. It’s a necessity. A requirement to move forward. But we shouldn’t do it to get something from God but rather an overflow from our love for our Father.
Even if the love isn’t felt at that moment, try to praise Him with lips of gratitude. Simply mutter, “Thank you, God” in your personal prayer time. You may not even know what you are thanking Him for. Don’t worry about it. God knows.
Stay strong in the Lord.
Sincerely,
Carly (Message In Stanza)
God, strengthen me
This elevator is stuck
Between floors
I can’t open these doors
I am claustrophobic
Scared of unknown spaces
And tight spaces
They remind me
Of my suffering
Don’t think I am overreacting
It’s like screaming
And not being heard
Jesus is the answer
The only answer I know
I am not ashamed of my pain
He more than understands
Caressing voice of angels
We are no longer strangers
We are the company of merriment
The harps spring forth
Echoing praise in the distance
Turn down the TV
Shut down the Ipad
Put down the drink
Watch your tongue
He is everything we need
Stand up
And smile
Let your lips curl
Like a half moon
He is good
Struggles come and go
But patience is growing
And patience creates praise
Stay strong, dear ones
(C) Carly Wiggins 2018
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Like dusty old bookshelves
It’s time to dust off our minds
New knowledge lays ahead
This a prompt from 3LinesTale
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