Original Works
Discover Poems by Stan Fleming
A collection of heartfelt poetry created with the desire to have a deeper relationship with the Lord. Dive into poems that reflect Stan’s journey to know God more.
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Cycles
We each feel a rhythm to life – the repetition of days, the routines we settle into, the cycles that just keep occurring. Sometimes these cycles are exciting, sometimes they are exhausting, and sometimes they are just simply numbing. But God’s word reminds us that that our Lord is present in every cycle, and each…
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Builder
For all of us who build anything – families, businesses, careers, foundations, futures – this one is for us. When we get absorbed in accomplishing something, it’s easy to get lost in designing, creating, and executing whatever that may be. And it’s easy to think that what we’re doing begins and ends with us. But…
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Without Faith
I laughed this week as I realized how much I go back and forth between conviction that brings peace and then hesitation or doubt that creates anxiety. This week it was the latter…again. I found myself in the middle of the fog of life, and I kept thinking about the difference between what I know…
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Words
We’ve all seen how quickly our tongues can ignite fires we never intended to start. And many times, our intense desire to react or respond is quickly followed by regret in what may have spewed in those moments. James uses strong language in His letter (James 3:5-6) to describe the danger in an unrestrained tongue…
The Creative Process
Each poem starts with an inspiration – could be a photo that triggers a thought, a thought that then matches to a photo, or a yearning from Scripture that then results in the pursuit of a photo that matches with it. Almost all result in deeper discovery about the precept of faith that emerges from the photo or thought.
Many of the core elements of faith end up in multiple inspirations and thus multiple poems as a result.
All of the poems are drafted and then set aside, and when I return to them, the inspiration from the beginning is either affirmed and the poem then finalized, or I’ll make significant edits based on where the Spirit leads me in that revisit.
I get great joy in the creation process, and I smile when I feel like the poem captures the thought put on my heart in the exact way I felt inspired with it.
That’s not always the case, but I love it when it happens that way!