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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Holy Echoes
The inspiration this week started with a prompt from a friend who shared with me how last week’s poem was a “holy echo” with what he was experiencing in his life at that time. The term “holy echo” made me smile…and got me pondering a new poem! So I started prayerfully writing. And this is…
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Liar
When I looked at 1 John 4:20, I was taken aback by its bluntness: “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar.” It confronted me with a harsh truth…that’s me at times. And that quickly gave way to conviction…I can do better. It’s so easy for any of us…
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He Hears Me
There are times when I wonder if God is listening…does He really hear me? But when I remember those piercing moments of peace, or those timely moments of clarity, or those unexpected and unexplained moments of calm, it’s then I’m convinced He’s with me and He hears me. I tried to capture those thoughts in…
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God of Wonders
I find moments where creation seems to be crying out and pointing me to the God of Wonders who created heaven and earth and all things on the earth. And this particular photo matched with this verse got me thinking about His wonders and how His presence has been affirmed through history: “God of Wonders”…
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!