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🕯️🔥 NEW POEM DROP 🔥🕯️

“Every disciple follows the Teacher,
Regardless of the personal cost.
Only love will win out in the end.”

A Scorched Stray on justice, dignity, and love that refuses to be bought.

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Love Costs
A Scorched Strays acrostic by Tristan Robert Lange honoring costly love. Holiness measured not by religiosity, but by justice for the othered. Communion cannot be bought. Every disciple follows the Teacher, regardless of cost. Only love wins.
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February 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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💀🔥 NEW POEM DROP 🔥💀

"Today is the day I break free from its weight. Lies will be known for what they are: lies."

A manifesto of rupture 💥, clarity ⚡, and resistance.

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Death Rattle
A breaking point becomes a breaking free. “Death Rattle” by Tristan Robert Lange is a declaration against turmoil, assimilation, and ambiguity—an acrostic manifesto demanding clarity where confusion once ruled.
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February 14, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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🎊🔥 NEW POEM DROP 🔥🎊

wicked labels cast
become the actor’s couch…

what is truly good anyway?

A poem about spectacle 🎥, reputation 📰, and moral editing in a promethean age.

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the cutting room floor
In a promethean world of curated endings and recycled reputations, what survives the edit? A poem by Tristan Robert Lange about labels, spectacle, and the uneasy question of what good truly means.
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February 13, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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🎯🔥 NEW POEM DROP 🔥🎯

“but my hope is a shield / built for missile deflection.”

A poem about integrity under pressure, faith without armor-plating, and hope that refuses to shatter.

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fire away
A spare, defiant meditation on integrity, vulnerability, and faith under fire. fire away by Tristan Robert Lange confronts pressure, judgment, and spiritual assault with a quiet refusal to yield—where hope is not fragile, but forged for impact.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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🪞🔥 NEW POEM DROP 🔥🪞

“to speak truth is to speak violence against oneself…”

A visual poem on reflection, ego, and the cost of clarity.

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A Measured Mirror
A visual poem exploring truth as self-violence, reflection as resistance, and the cost of confronting delusion. Through classical allusion and mirrored structure, A Measured Mirror by Tristan Robert Lange exposes equivocation, ego, and the uneasy weight of clarity.
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February 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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🪨🖤 NEW POEM DROP 🖤🪨

“I’ve been here—
the Loser for skipping
Existential truth stones
on the Dead sea of denial.”

The first poem in a new series, The Rutted Road.

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skipping stones
A confessional poem wrestling with faith after action has already been taken. skipping stones by Tristan Robert Lange opens a new series, The Rutted Road, examining belief, consequence, and the long aftermath when certainty gives way to silence.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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⭐️ NEW POEM DROP ⭐️

“truth comes not
at the cost of erasure…”

A defiant poem about refusing 🚫 to disappear in order to feel safe. Freedom doesn’t come from shrinking.

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diminishing returns
What if safety required shrinking yourself? diminishing returns by Tristan Robert Lange confronts the lie that freedom is found through erasure, arguing instead that truth refuses to survive at the cost of selfhood. A short, defiant meditation on dignity, visibility, and resistance.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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🔥📜 NEW POEM DROP 📜🔥

What institutions call “indecent” often names what threatens their power.

The Indecency Index interrogates exclusion, uniformity, and weaponized theology — and exposes who really fears inclusion.

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The Indecency Index
An acrostic poem by Tristan Robert Lange interrogating how institutions define “indecency,” exposing the ways theology is weaponized through uniformity, process, and exclusion rather than practiced as liberation, grace, and embodied solidarity.
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February 8, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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🫁🖤 NEW POEM 🖤🫁

“you’ve got this,
one breath at a time.”

A poem about grounding, panic, and the long walk back to safety.
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return trip
A quiet poem by Tristan Robert Lange about grounding, breath, and making it through a moment of panic. A return trip measured not in miles, but in breaths—where survival is counted one step, one inhale, one hope at a time.
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February 7, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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🚨🖤 NEW POEM DROP 🖤🚨

A short poem about pressure and exposure—about the moment when concealment ends and others’ perceptions take over.

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sausage casings
A short poem by Tristan Robert Lange about pressure and exposure—about the moment when concealment ends and others’ perceptions take over.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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🧱🖤 NEW POEM DROP 🖤🧱

betrayed…
blocked up in the bowels
of what must be

endured.

A quiet poem about stalled courage and forced endurance.

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obstruction
A restrained poem about stalled courage and the quiet violence of endurance. obstruction by Tristan Robert Lange explores how small compromises and moral grayness can block what needs release, leaving us to endure what cannot move.
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February 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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🔥🧪 NEW POEM DROP 🧪🔥

God won’t stop this.

A prophetic acrostic on power, consent, and the violence we ask for…then deny.

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Alchemy of Our Asking
A prophetic acrostic confronting the violence we invite, excuse, and enable. Alchemy of Our Asking asks whether removing a figurehead absolves a nation from the harm it collectively desires.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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📰🔥 NEW POEM DROP 🔥📰

What we call tragedy often hides something worse.

Silence. 🤐 Evasion. 🏃‍♂ Refusal 🚫 to name responsibility.

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Words matter. So does who we refuse to name.

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the striking
A concise political poem examining how language obscures responsibility. What we call tragedy often masks a deeper travesty: the refusal to name who caused the harm. This poem by Tristan Robert Lange confronts silence, evasion, and the cost of ignoring accountability.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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🔥 NEW SCORCHED STRAY 🔥

When regulation 🛑 replaces incarnation 🍞, religion loses its witness 👀.

Religion’s Worst Witness is an acrostic poem on solidarity, lived faith, and righteous resistance.

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Religion’s Worst Witness
A Scorched Stray confronting how religion loses its witness when regulation replaces solidarity. This acrostic poem by Tristan Robert Lane insists that salvation comes through incarnation and lived compassion, not containment. Drawing from Gospel and Pauline theology, it calls readers away from gatekeeping faith and toward embodied love, righteous resistance, and shalom practiced in the world.
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February 1, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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🚨 NEW POEM 🚨

When power 💪 becomes a prize 🏆 and peace ☮️ is sold 💰 as cover, rebellion ⚡ grows from the cracks.

What Rebellions Are Built On is a sestina about mimic kings, hollow castles, and the quiet refusal to believe the lie.

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What Rebellions Are Built On
A sestina examining how power curdles into spectacle, how peace becomes a commodity, and how legitimacy collapses into force. What Rebellions Are Built On by Tristan Robert Lange traces the logic of the mimic king, the hollow castle, and the quiet persistence of hope that refuses the lie—standing, still, outside the walls.
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January 31, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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 🚨🚨🚔 NEW POEM DROP 🚔🚨

What they said wasn’t what they meant… 👮👮‍♀️👮‍♂️

A poem about promises, power, and the cost of believing them.

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what they said
A sharp, rhythmic indictment of political promises and moral doublespeak. This poem by Tristan Robert Lange confronts the gap between what authority claims and what it enforces, exposing the cost of security theater, exclusion, and the quiet erosion of truth.
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January 30, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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🎊🍾 NEW POEM DROP 🎊🍾

“Jesus loves you”…
Terms and conditions may apply.

Fine Print exposes the cruelty hidden beneath conditional faith and hollow hymns.

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Fine Print
A satirical hymn that exposes how “love” becomes conditional when institutions replace compassion with control. Fine Print by Tristan Robert Lange confronts the quiet cruelty hidden beneath religious slogans, revealing the cost of belonging when acceptance comes with rules, shame, and exclusion.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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🕯️📜 NEW POEM 🐍⚖️

Leviathan Logic

A poem about power, distance, and the language that makes cruelty sound reasonable.

When “advice” becomes absolution…who pays the price?

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Leviathan Logic
A tightly repeating poem that exposes how authority disguises cruelty as common sense. Leviathan Logic by Tristan Robert Lange circles the language of “advice” until it reveals the quiet violence beneath policy, distance, and denial.
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January 28, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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🧊🎭 NEW POEM DROP 🎭🧊

When does loyalty curdle into treachery?

ice charades asks the question we keep dodging — quietly, carefully, and without absolution.

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ice charades
At what point does loyalty harden into betrayal? ice charades by Tristan Robert Lange interrogates silence, complicity, and the moral cost of obedience in a world where systems demand allegiance even as goodness fractures beneath our feet.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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🔥🕯️ NEW POEM DROP 🕯️🔥
Exhibit: (A)pathy is a record, not a rant.

A poem about civic faith, silence, and the cost of not seeing.

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Exhibit: (A)pathy
A poem of witness and indictment, Exhibit: (A)pathy by Tristan Robert Lange interrogates civic faith, sanctioned indifference, and the cost of not seeing. When symbols replace conscience and silence becomes complicity, ignorance is no longer a defense.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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🎊🍾 NEW POEM DROP 🎊🍾
Religion ⛪️ doesn’t just draw borders… it enforces 👮‍♂️ them.

Bogus Border Czars by Tristan Robert Lange is a Scorched Sunday poem about gatekeeping, power, and the cost of rigid belief.

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Bogus Border Czars
A Scorched Sunday poem confronting religious gatekeeping and the urge to police belief rather than nurture faith. Bogus Border Czars by Tristan Robert Lange exposes how rigid belief systems mirror authoritarian power, and how exclusion carries a human cost.
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January 25, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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🕯️🪞 NEW POEM DROP 🪞🕯️

An elegy not for someone else — but for who I used to be.

Rest In Peace 🪦 is a reckoning with grief, shame, and the quiet work of choosing healing ❤️‍🩹 over self-hatred.

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Rest in Peace
An intimate elegy addressed to a former self. Rest In Peace by Tristan Robert Lange explores grief, shame, and recovery, tracing the painful but necessary act of letting go of self-hatred in order to claim healing, worth, and forward motion.
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January 24, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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🎁🧠 NEW POEM DROP 🧠🎁

A family…pre-packaged. 🎁
Gender labeled. ⚥
Legacy preserved. ✨

Oedipal Arrangements dismantles inherited roles and the cost of compliance through dark satire and precision.

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Oedipal Arrangements
A darkly satirical poem that frames family, gender, and inheritance as a purchasable arrangement. Oedipal Arrangements by Tristan Robert Lange exposes the transactional logic beneath patriarchy, where legacy is preserved at the cost of identity, and nurture is quietly replaced by compliance.
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January 23, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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🌀🖤 NEW POEM DROP 🖤🌀

“Let the heavens take shape / As my halo hurts into horns.”

A poem about gravity, sanctity, and the cost of becoming.

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Halos and Horns
A brief descent into gravitational inevitability, where holiness strains under pressure and identity reshapes itself. "Halos and Horns" by Tristan Robert Lange explores spiritual tension, transformation, and the violence of becoming through stark, compressed language.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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🌿🕯️ NEW POEM 🕯️🌿

“Never does nature weep for that which fertilizes.”

A meditation on decay, growth, and nature’s quiet indifference.

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Garden of Surprises
A darkly contemplative poem exploring how nature transforms decay into life without sentiment or sorrow. Garden of Surprises by Tristan Robert Lange confronts the uneasy beauty of growth born from death, where roots, soil, and darkness cooperate without apology.
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January 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM