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.
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New ones drop every Sunday.
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Even As They Burn
An acrostic meditation on Marguerite Porete and costly surrender. Radical love empties the soul in plentitude—even as rigid systems burn what they cannot control. A Scorched Strays reflection on mysticism, punishment, and endurance.
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Love Costs
A Scorched Strays acrostic by Tristan Robert Lange honoring costly love. Holiness measured not by religiosity, but by justice for the othered. Communion cannot be bought. Every disciple follows the Teacher, regardless of cost. Only love wins.
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And Yet It Moves
An acrostic poem confronting the misuse of power and the refusal of truth. And Yet It Moves by Tristan Robert Lange wrestles with knowledge, responsibility, and willful ignorance, insisting that intelligence itself is a divine gift—and that silence is no defense when truth stands plainly before us.
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The Scandal of Honesty
When faith fears honesty, truth becomes a threat. The Scandal of Honesty by Tristan Robert Lange confronts how humility, liberation, and compassion are often dismissed as danger by those invested in certainty, power, and control—refusing the erasure that follows faithful witness.
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The Prince
An acrostic Scorched Sunday poem by Tristan Robert Lange confronting how sensitivity, honesty, and imagination are mistaken for weakness. The Prince exposes religious conformity, moral policing, and erasure, challenging systems that label difference as danger. A refusal to wear the mask, and a defense of those who burn brighter for it.
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Judgment Against Themselves
This poem by Tristan Robert Lange emphasizes the importance of love, unity, and grace over persecution and misinterpretation within religious institutions. It highlights the inclusiveness of salvation, the need for authentic teaching, and the liberation found in Christ. Ultimately, it encourages perseverance in faith despite challenges and misrepresentations of spiritual truths.
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