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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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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The Bitters
Bitterness taken in. Tears tasted. A shared space where truth fractures quietly. A minimalist Maundy Thursday reflection by Tristan Robert Lange on denial, ritual, and the uneasy realization that something is already wrong.
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The False Dilemma
A question is asked—but not to understand. This senryu captures the tension of a false choice, where truth is cornered and exposed. A Holy Week reflection on logic, power, and the illusion of control.
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The Overturning
People love what looks good on the surface. But beneath the polished display, something else is at work. A short, sharp senryu by Tristan Robert Lange reflecting on hidden corruption, human desire, and the moment everything is exposed.
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The Great Substitution
What happens when Christ is not followed, but replaced? This poem reimagines the Great Commission as something darker—where power, fear, and control take hold in the name of faith.
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Alcohol Agnosia
A culture that mocks sobriety while celebrating intoxication reveals more than it realizes. This poem confronts the blindness surrounding alcohol normalization and challenges who gets to define what recovery truly means.
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amen
A minimalist philosophical poem confronting power and control through a reversal of Descartes’ famous assertion. “amen” explores existence as the root of thought—and the threat that independent thinking poses to systems that depend on compliance.
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