Message In Stanza

Poetry and Musings

Hello dedicated followers and friends, I have created a new blog called, My Ink Smears. I just wanted to create a new name and opportunities to start anew. I will probably still post on here but still slowly wean off of it on to My Ink Smears. I hope you will join me on this new journey! 🙂 I will still be doing my poetry and musings. And you may see the same posts from Message In Stanza to My Ink Smears. I hope you will decide to follow my new blog and my join me for this new creative spark of mine! 🙂

My first post there:

The Way He Dances

I am a total people pleaser. One of my biggest pet peeves is people speaking badly about me when I am not around. I dislike gossip. I believe it’s still considered gossip even if you accurately talk about an unfavorable situation that happened but you make judgmental remarks about the people involved. I know you all know this. But there’s a big difference gossip and venting to someone to help alleviate someone else’s situation which looks bleak.

For instance, a teacher talking to another teacher about another student after school hours. They express concern over a struggling student who rebels and seems to try to stay focused and is well-mannered during the day. But at times he lets out uncontrollable anger towards other students and doesn’t seem to be dedicated to completing assignments in on time. The one teacher convinces the other teacher to talk to his parents about his home habits. They suspect if he struggles at home too he may have emotional barriers where he may need extra emotional support. Or if he is different at home he may be bullied at school. So, as you can see, in this particular case communication is essential.

 

Please share your thoughts with me today. 🙂

Have a wonderful day and stay blessed,

~ Carly (Message In Stanza) ~

 

My family and I are on our way to Stowe, Vermont. There is no direct flight and we got delayed from leaving Houston during due to weather, so we missed our second leg. So we spent some time in Boston. 🚇🕌I love Boston. It’s such a vibrant, thriving city and historic town. The Boston Marthon is on Monday. We have seen people jogging around the city to get energized and ready for tomorrow. And Boston we keep you in our thoughts during this time. ✌️🙏

Here are some pics of us driving through the city:

boston part 2

boston part 3

And us walking through town:

boston part 4

My mom looks cold (we are from Texas! lol!):

boston part 5

And here are some other ones:

boston part 6

boston part 7

boston part 8

 

 

I saw this word game idea on the vinyl channel, Too Many Records. (Source: https://youtu.be/XmXiVklyeeU). If you love collecting records like myself, you’ll love his channel. Check it out. 🙂

So here’s how you play:

The Letters are GHDTC.

Now come up with one word for each letter and I will pick the best answer by Wednesday night (USA, Central Standard Time).

Examples:

 

God’s Heart Desires the Change

 

Godiva Has Delicious Terrific Chocolate

 

All will get a warm response from me but I will congratulate the winner. That will be your award. 🙂 And if I get a lot of responses from this post I may do another game like this in the future where the winner will receive a prize.

Have fun! And get some Godiva Chocolate while you are at because they are so good! Lol!

~ Carly (Message In Stanza) ~

 

 

A beautiful and reflective poem to God from DarylMadden! Check out this blog! Enjoy!

PoemsOfTheSoul's avatarDarylMadden

Trapped within ego
What they did to me
Hurt and frustrated
A bitter heart be

Pausing in prayer
With gaze upon You
As one forgiven
What would you have me do?

Set soul upon mercy
Your sight upon grace
Heart of acceptance
Of humble embrace

I cannot do this
We know this is true
With prayer of heart willing
I’ll walk beside You

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Here is a poem from a while back. Enjoy!

The cobwebs, the crooked doors, and the darkened hallways
I forget to acknowledge myself in all my ways
I forget there is one constant in all of the universe
It still has to run its course
When I feel all alone
I forget there is a soul of mine I can call my own
Aliens, ghosts, and skeletons
But don’t you forget God is a ghost
He has come to give you what you need most
You should fear this ghost
He can mysteriously pop up in front of you during the day
Sometimes it appears he is unseen
But he knows what you need
He has come to reap and comfort
For he alone can heal our hurt
Don’t forget God’s a ghost
And he loves you very much
Don’t forget his mysterious power

(C) Carly Wiggins 2007

Hey, I just wanted to let everyone know that sometimes my comments are going into other blogger’s spam folder in their email. I contacted WordPress and they said there is nothing they can do. But just keep in mind to check your spam folder for my comments when you can. Thanks.

Do you know of a way to resolve this issue? Is it a setting on my phone or something?

 

~Happy Blogging!~