Truth, Applied is a collection of poems that refuse abstraction when it obscures what holds.
These pieces move beyond observation into assertion—naming distortion, confronting false equivalence, and testing what remains when power, perception, and narrative are stripped away.
This is not poetry that lingers in uncertainty.
This is poetry that lands.
The Collection
This collection continues to grow—new poems are added as they are written.
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They Stopped Asking
A poem by Tristan Robert Lange about what happens when concern fades into silence… and the people who once asked about your soul stop asking altogether.
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misfit
Some molds don’t shape you—they break you. Misfit explores the pressure to conform and the quiet defiance of refusing to shrink yourself just to belong.
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Screams in the Lucid Night
A haunting meditation on control, conformity, and resistance. This poem explores the tension between imposed order and inner defiance, where identity refuses to yield. Set in a gothic atmosphere, it confronts the illusion of control and the enduring voice that resists being shaped by external forces.
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Witch Weaving
A short, cutting poem that stitches together truth, silence, and survival. Through rhythmic phrasing and stark imagery, Witch Weaving explores what it means to endure under pressure—where voice is controlled, perception is shaped, and sometimes survival depends on what remains unseen.
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Apparatus Askew
A body pushed beyond feeling…a mind trapped inside the machine. Apparatus Askew confronts the quiet erosion of self under pressure, questioning what remains when emotion is suppressed and identity is bent to fit the system. At what point do we stop feeling—and start functioning?
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the currency of change
A poem about change demanded, delivered, and then rejected. When honesty arrives and transformation takes hold, the response is not humility but resistance—and the value of change itself comes under question.
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Exactly
A precise confrontation of assumed authority—where certainty is claimed, then challenged. This piece turns a single word into both statement and question, exposing the fragile ground beneath those who presume to speak for others.
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The Traitors
A quiet scene of breakfast conceals something deeper. Beneath ordinary gathering lies a truth about human nature—subtle, unsettling, and unavoidable. A minimalist pairing of senryū by Tristan Robert Lange that expose betrayal not as exception, but condition.
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The Unlasting
A quiet meditation on darkness, silence, and the subtle act of breathing in light. This minimalist piece by Tristan Robert Lange inhabits the tension of what feels permanent and what quietly begins to change beneath the surface.
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The Letter T
A body becomes a symbol, and the symbol refuses to disappear. This minimalist senryu by Tristan Robert Lange holds tension between form and meaning, suffering and truth, asking what remains when everything else is stripped away. In the shape of a letter, something deeper is revealed—and it does not yield.
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