🜂 Biaxial Parallax

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Created: October 4, 2025 at 8:00 p.m.

First appearance: Eidolon’s Estate

Concept:

The Biaxial Parallax Form explores duality, illusion, and the shifting nature of truth as perceived from opposing vantage points. Rooted in Platonic philosophy, it renders the tension between the world of forms and the world of appearances into the architecture of the poem itself.

Structure and Rules:

• Dual Acrostics:
The poem is constructed with acrostics on both the left and right margins. Each acrostic forms a separate, thematically linked word or phrase—one representing the ideal or formal world, the other representing its reflected or corrupted counterpart. Each acrostic must have opposite alignment

• Central Axis Line:
A single axis line (the poem’s midpoint) divides the two realms. It functions as both hinge and revelation—the moment where the two worlds meet, contradict, or collapse. this means that one acrostic is tradition (down the left side) the other is atypical (down the right side and requires ending words that end with the correct letter.

• Biaxial Symmetry:
The body of the poem unfolds symmetrically around the axis line. Each side or section mirrors the other in tone, rhythm, or imagery, though not necessarily in content. The tension lies in imperfect symmetry.

• Parallax Principle:
The meaning of the poem must shift depending on perspective—how it’s read, which margin draws the eye, or where the reader’s moral and philosophical stance lies. No single “truth” dominates; both worlds exist in relational flux.

• Thematic Core:
The Biaxial Parallax Form is designed to examine binaries—truth vs. illusion, purity vs. decay, spirit vs. flesh, self vs. reflection. It may employ philosophical, theological, or existential motifs.

• Aesthetic Flexibility:
While its geometry is defined, diction and style remain open: Gothic, existential, or philosophical registers all suit the form. Lineation and indentation are tools for emphasizing visual duality.

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Purpose:

To render philosophical paradox visible—turning language into an axis of perception.

© 2025 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
First published on tristanrobertlange.com in the poem, Eidolon’s Estate, October 8, 2025.

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