Some of us don’t fit where the fire started.
These are the ones who asked too much, loved too widely, or refused to bow to the easy certainties meant to keep the world tidy and people powerless. Across history and faith, they’ve been labeled heretic, nuisance, troublemaker, threat. Their questions burned hotter than the doctrines meant to tame them.
Scorched Strays is a collection for them — and for anyone who has felt the heat of judgment for daring to think, to wonder, to believe differently. Each poem is an acrostic portrait: of condemned saints, silenced voices, misread mystics, wounded theologians, and the strange grace that survives in the ashes.
Here, the scorched do not disappear.
They stand, spark, and speak.
Welcome to the fire that burns but never consumes.
The Series
New ones drop every Sunday.
🔥 latest current Scorched Stray
- Orbit of Oblivion 🔥 — A scorched acrostic on the quiet corrosion of conscience, where silence masquerades as neutrality and conformity seals the void.
- The Desert Door — An acrostic on leaving empire for the wilderness of transformation
- Foundations of Revolution — A scorched acrostic on a revolution seeded in the margins, where identity itself became an act of resistance.
- Necessitated in the Void — A scorched acrostic on guarding the inner life, resisting corrosive hatred, and choosing disciplined silence when harm haunts the vulnerable
- Even As They Burn — A scorched acrostic on costly surrender and unconsumed love
- Love Costs — An acrostic for the altar where justice is not for sale
- The Indecency Index — A scorched acrostic dismantling how institutions call liberation “indecent” to protect power, enforce uniformity, and exile grace
- Religion’s Worst Witness — A scorched acrostic on solidarity, incarnation, and lived faith
- Bogus Border Czars — An acrostic on religious gatekeeping and power
- And Yet It Moves — An acrostic meditation on knowledge, power, and accountabilityAnd Yet It Moves — An acrostic meditation on knowledge, power, and accountability
- The Scandal of Honesty — an acrostic on faithful questioning and the cost of telling the truth
- The Prince — a scorched acrostic on honesty treated as threat
- The Rev — a scorched acrostic on identity twisted by power
- Judgment Against Themselves — uncovering how Scripture is twisted into judgment to protect power rather than truth
- Salvation Don’t Slither — exposing the serpentine lie of power disguised as holiness
- Torquemada’s Trepidation — confronting the Church’s long fear of women and the divine feminine
- A Brand Picked from the Fire — Wesley barred from the church, freed to the field
- Burned for a Better God — Arminius aflame in a system too small
- shape of a prayer — a concrete poem for the scorched self
- Three-In-One Times the Effigy — Servetus and the hunt for the heretic
- Silenced; Yet All Shall Be Well — the cost of being a theologian of the wrong gender
- Fully Forsaken, Not So Divine — wrestling with the loss of the human Jesus
- Theotokos’s Trap — an acrostic of paradox and doctrine
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