Nearly three years sober calls for something sweet. Fluffy Feline Frenzy celebrates with kittens, euphemisms, iced tea, brownies, and precisely zero fudge left to give.

A trans boy discovers that his beloved pulp hero despises people like him. Following the evidence, he uncovers a network connecting children’s entertainment, religious extremism, political power, and a hidden project that may reach into his own home.

A church can proclaim Christ while building barriers against the people Christ calls us to love. No Polite Society confronts a history of Christian exclusion—and the comfortable religion that allowed hatred to dress itself in Sunday clothes.

An early autumn evening becomes a moment of prayer in Fall Vespers, a haiku about stillness, presence, and recognizing the sacred already near.

A tempest destroys the sanctuary, leaving behind a truth reflected in the looking glass. A tanka confronting what can remain hidden behind the walls of the church.

Halloween is over, the porch light is out, and the last trick-or-treaters are gone. Then something appears outside the window. An original horror poem from Tristan Robert Lange’s Darklings collection.

A final line of light diminishes against the dark as the soul confronts a possibility it cannot answer: what if this is the last?

A day meant for celebration turns inward, where a cry strips away the comfort of believing anyone is truly celebrating with you.

Forgiveness may be divine, but forgetting carries consequences. In this vicious ottava rima sequel to Edward Ellis’s notorious penny blood, Ruth the Betrayer takes up her own story in a voice sharpened by memory.

An acrostic Scorched Sunday poem confronting religious hypocrisy, whitewashed faith, and the places redemption keeps speaking from anyway.

A tall, fast young athlete arrives at a track meet prepared to do one thing: bunt. Meet Kareem Mike Hunt, the sprinter nobody saw coming.

Apathy demands neither love nor hatred. It merely watches as peace is stripped of its wings and turns the destruction into entertainment.

A playful, biting poem that thirsts a little, mocks a lot, and turns online hate into pixelite swill.

A poem about the kind of loneliness that persists in crowded rooms, familiar homes, and lives that appear complete from the outside.

A human poet gets labeled AI by AI. At some point, the absurdity writes the poem for you.

Washington shines with inherited promises, but beneath its marble grandeur lies a machinery of captivity. A Gothic political poem inspired by The Mysteries of London and written in Tristan Robert Lange’s original Revelatory Cascade form.

An acrostic portrait of woman-led evangelism, religious authority, generosity, and redemption, inspired by the holiness movement and the women who embodied its fire.

A Fibonacci poem expands toward profundity, contracts toward doubt, then allows a pompous artificial academic to explain exactly how profound the whole thing supposedly was.

A coast-to-coast thrash-metal apocalypse invokes the Big Four, adds a fifth horseman, and reclaims the genre’s supposedly satanic fury as a weapon against tyranny.

Two flags fly in hierarchical order above a seaside pier. domination examines the dangerous place where national identity, religious devotion, and imperial power converge.

Ocean Grove offers sea air, serenity, and salvation, each with conditions attached. Behind the white porches and godly breezes, hospitality bends toward money, control, and a Jesus tailored to high society.

A satirical senryu about our sudden insistence that artificial creations be labeled in a culture already saturated with manufactured reality.

Hare has a captive audience and a story to tell. A ghazal drawn from the infamous Burke and Hare murders, where confession, betrayal, and eight pounds turn a history lesson into something far more sinister.

A tribute to Dimebag Darrell and a furious indictment of the gun culture that ended a hell of a musical run.

A self-proclaimed “fine and good man” defends his traditional masculinity as the structure of his argument—and the Ghost Sonnet containing it—collapses into resentment, hypocrisy, and one final self-incriminating insult.

Beyond a rusted gate, a solitary seabird occupies a forbidden pier and quietly unsettles the boundaries between nature, sacred architecture, and human ownership.

A psychological aftershock fractures the sky and constricts perception, trapping the mind inside recurring dystopian dreams. Four compressed lines conceal the name of the trauma within their structure.

A fevered warning about demons, metal records, Hollywood, pizza parlors, and every conspiracy waiting to be believed. Heavy Metal Made Me Do It turns satanic panic into a darkly comic sermon for the age of Q.

What remains after a parent dies without ever truly seeing their child? bitter herbs confronts rejection, withheld love, and the terrible possibility that only beyond death might distorted sight finally become clear.

On a quiet hill, Floydian tendrils reach into the psyche, carrying an old division toward one enduring human question.

A presidential name meets desert dust, dispossession, and dissent. This Land Was Made of Dust follows a wandering singer forged into a national monument—and marked for confinement.

A calm voice offers careful guidance through an unseen procedure. In "For Your Safety", reassurance guides us one more step toward what the eyes cannot see.

An invitation to dinner becomes a question of belonging. Through an ordinary conversation about a barbecue buffet, “The Obvious Choice?” exposes how easily consideration disappears when someone else’s needs interrupt the plan. Part of the Truth, Applied collection.

Explore The Shaman, a continuous contemporary-classical tone poem composed by Tristan Robert Lange and performed by Appalachian Virtual Ensemble. Listen to the recording and view the complete score.

A wounded world turns punishment into spectacle in “Jackassassination,” a dark allegory of violence, false nobility, and the laughing appetite that gathers whenever execution becomes a feast.

Middle-aged men may need their expensive maximal-cushion shoes, but financially responsible unicorns already have four fabulous hooves for dancing the polka.

A prison museum becomes a monument to society’s shadows in this compact indictment of cruelty hardened into political power.

A dying light becomes one final gift of wonder in firefly, a tender meditation on mortality, childhood, and the hope that something beautiful may arise before we disappear.

A two-line acrostic confronting the names, boundaries, and divisions humanity may carry with it until the end of the world.

A sharp satire confronting self-righteous judgment, spiritual pride, and the hypocrisy of scrutinizing everyone else’s horns while remaining oblivious to the flies gathering on your own skin.

Tristan Robert Lange’s "The Shaman", a continuous contemporary-classical tone poem presented by Appalachian Virtual Ensemble, arrives September 4, 2026.

A black GT car heads toward Ocean Grove carrying more than passengers. Filled with Jersey references, rock mythology, and personal arrival, "jersey hound" celebrates finally finding home where music, memory, and identity collide.

A porch, a cloud of myrcene, and police approaching from every direction...until decades of paranoia give way to one beautifully ordinary wave.

A musical tribute to Richie Sambora, the weathered bluesman whose soulful voice and guitar remain audible beyond the machinery of the rock industry.

A whispered reckoning with Thomas Chatterton, the brilliant seventeen-year-old poet abandoned to poverty, silence, and tragedy in a lonely London attic.

A lifetime of needs, compulsions, treatments, and promised cures moves down society’s assembly line. By the time the product is finished, disappointment is no defect. It is factory made.

A Scorched Stray confronting Christian purity culture and the hypocrisy of dividing saints from sinners. Grace does not wait for cleanliness, respectability, or worthiness. If it did, none of us would qualify.