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.

The Great Delaware

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Inside a decaying white church, a headless stone dove lies in an ornate birdbath overflowing with dark crimson liquid. Bloodlike stains soak exposed wooden lath, cover the floor, and flow through open sanctuary doors into a storm-darkened Delaware River. Tittu signature, tristanrobertlange.com, and TRL monogram appear along the bottom.
Image: AI-generated using DALL·E and modified by the author; Poetry: written by Tristan Robert Lange, Human-authored.

HALT!

speed meet stop!
hard exclamation.
whiplash.

concussive conclusion.

it’s all me,
they say.

all

my fault

say they,
who populate
and pray

that
their deeds
be seen great,
while their morals
are thrown away.

STALL!

till all y’all
can gather
and scrub up
unholy lather,

from blubber
and a caustic lie,
eats a hole in one
called truth.

BLAST OFF!

stop switches speed,
intentionally

g-force phenomenon
meets the necronomicon.
the givers of life
forget the sacred word,

cutting the head off
of the sacred bird,
blood drips
                 d
                 o
                 w
                 n
                 ward—pools—
gathers in the birdbath,
while simultaneously seeping
down the plastered lath.

god’s tears
won’t be quenched—

flood, baby, flood—

until justice rolls down like
the great Delaware River.

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

© 2026 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.

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Hi, I’m Tristan Robert Lange — a poet who writes at the crossroads of existentialism, emotional depth, societal critique, and the gothic. My work often journeys into the human psyche, weaving dark and atmospheric imagery with profound emotional insight. I draw inspiration from literary voices such as Edgar Allan Poe, Jim Morrison, Charles Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath, Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker, among others. Their influence fuels my pursuit of vivid imagery and unflinching exploration of the macabre, the mysterious, and the sacred-in-subtext. My poetry is both confessional and visionary, haunted and haloed, carrying the weight of suffering but always straining toward transcendence.

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