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.
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Better Burned
A person stands at the edge of fire, unyielding. Better Burned by Tristan Robert Lange confronts pressure, power, and the cost of truth—choosing immolation over complicity in a world that demands surrender.
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Canon Captive
A man renounces all claims—only to be claimed again. Canon Captive by Tristan Robert Lange explores rupture, identity, and the distortion that follows when a life is reshaped into something it never was.
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The Civilized? Schema
A Scorched Stray meditation on inherited systems and unquestioned certainty, The Civilized? Schema by Tristan Robert Lange confronts the fracture between logic and truth, urging a return to inner stillness where wisdom emerges slowly and what is real can finally be recognized.
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Crucifixion Pending
A haunting reflection on humanity’s tendency to choose fear over truth, this acrostic poem by Tristan Robert Lange explores moral compromise, collective indifference, and the unsettling possibility that history’s darkest moments are not behind us—but waiting to be repeated.
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The Desert Door
A surreal threshold separates the comforts of empire from the wilderness beyond. This Desert Door by Tristan Robert Lange explores the moment one steps outside belonging and into the harsh desert where identity is stripped bare, confronted, and transformed.
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Necessitated in the Void
An acrostic Scorched Stray for Lent. A meditation by Tristan Robert Lange on interior discipline, spiritual maturity, and the silence required to guard the soul against corrosive hatred. When harm haunts the disadvantaged, silence becomes more than absence—it becomes holy resistance.
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