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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Reconciliation
The Sermon on the Mount is rich with teachings that make us pause and look within. Matthew 5:23-24 was one of the many that did that for me. I thought about the many times when my anger or disappointment or pride led me to pull away from someone, with reconciliation the last thing I wanted…
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Nothing Is Everything
When I spend time thinking back to those most challenging moments in my life – personally, professionally, and spiritually – I remember the pain, the challenge, the temptation. I remember vividly those moments when hope was all that was left. And now, with hindsight, I realize I had so much more than I imagined or…
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Nothing Is Impossible
I’ve been thinking back to those times in my life when hope and prayer were all that was left…when my situation made positive outcomes seem impossible. In each of those times, I remember that moment when something unexpected and sometimes unexplainable happened, allowing that positive outcome to actually then occur. The impossible became possible with…
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My Needs
I’ve been thinking about the active nature of faith, and how faith is emboldened through a desire to know God more and yield to His will. That got me thinking about our needs, and His clear direction to ask, seek, and find, but to do that with a yielding and yearning heart, fully trusting in…
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!