Tristan Robert Lange

Poet | Mystic | Existential Voice | Human with a haunted halo

Tristan Robert Lange is a poet whose work blends existential depth, gothic imagery, and spiritual subtext. This site is home to their published poems, reflections, and creative journey.

Athena’s Siren Song

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Black-and-white wide overlook of Little Round Top in Gettysburg National Military Park, with monument visible on the hill and cars parked below under a sky filled with layered clouds.
Image: Photograph taken by Tristan Robert Lange; edited by the author. Poetry: written by Tristan Robert Lange, Human-authored.

Roads wind their way like snakes.
Others driving, stopping, sight-seeing.
Universally considered hallowed ground,
Never to be more hollowed than it is.
Down below, no one is even aware.

Tethered by dead men’s tales, markers scattered
Only to be remembered more than those dead.
Parlance performed by powder puff blasts.

Verity is in a vacuum of venom.
Idealization has become irony’s whore.
Enamored by the monuments of marred memory,
We fall back into Athena’s siren song.

Poet’s Note:
Written atop Little Round Top in Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA.

© 2025 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.

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Black-and-white selfie of Tristan Robert Lange at Little Round Top in Gettysburg National Military Park, wearing round sunglasses, headphones, and a patterned shirt, holding up a peace sign with the battlefield hillside and monument visible behind him under a clouded sky.
Self-portrait by Tristan Robert Lange overlooking Little Round Top, Gettysburg National Military Park, August 27, 2025.
Color photograph of Little Round Top in Gettysburg National Military Park, taken from atop large rock formations in the foreground, with green hillside, scattered monuments, and a bright blue sky filled with white clouds.
Little Round Top viewed from Devil’s Den, Gettysburg National Military Park, August 27, 2025. Photograph by Tristan Robert Lange.
Black-and-white selfie of Tristan Robert Lange at Little Round Top in Gettysburg, wearing sunglasses, headphones, and layered necklaces, with rolling brush, trees, and a monument visible on the hill behind him beneath dramatic clouds.
Self-portrait by Tristan Robert Lange overlooking Little Round Top, Gettysburg, PA, August 27, 2025.
Black-and-white wide photograph of Little Round Top in Gettysburg National Military Park, showing the hillside monument, large foreground boulders, parked cars below, and a dramatic cloud-filled sky.
Little Round Top, Gettysburg, PA, photographed by Tristan Robert Lange, August 27, 2025.
Black-and-white photograph taken atop Little Round Top in Gettysburg National Military Park. In the foreground, an open notebook rests on the rock beside a patterned case, with handwritten lines visible. A silhouetted statue stands overlooking the battlefield beneath a dramatic clouded sky.
Notebook containing the handwritten draft of “Athena’s Siren Song,” photographed atop Little Round Top, Gettysburg National Military Park — August 27, 2025. Photograph by Tristan Robert Lange.

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