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.

A weathered nineteenth-century envelope sits on a worn wooden table. Postal markings show January 1, 1863, and June 19, 1865, symbolizing the gap between emancipation and the arrival of freedom in Texas. Tristan Robert Lange’s monogram emblem appears in the lower corner.
Image: AI-generated using DALL-E and modified by the author; Poetry: written by Tristan Robert Lange.

the first day of eighteen sixty-three.
a proclamation that all slaves of rebel states
shall be declared henceforth free.
oh shucks. oh me, oh my,
what can be said, but golly gee,
it took a little while…what’s two years
to arrive and give you reason for cheers?
but smiles, silly crocodiles…you’re alive
and can finally say you’re free on this
nineteenth day of June, eighteen sixty-five.

but, if our arrival seems contrived,
wait until we go to concede
the horror you faced while alive.
then we will name it a holiday—
yet racism is here to stay—
while complaining about those woke
over how morally broke
we truly are.

POET’S NOTE:
Part of the Truth, Applied collection.

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