Comments received on poems by Tristan Robert Lange
The Satan is in the System
orchidee said:
Yet Jesus, as one source puts it, \'reserved His strongest condemnation for the hypocritical religious folk of the day, not for ordinary, humble folk\'. No need to \'Bible-bash\' ordinary \'common\' folk. Not that all religious leaders are hypocrites.
Similar to animal cruelty - there\'s huge amounts of good done to animals in contrast to the cruelty man does to them.
Or man\'s inhumanity to man - in contrast, there\'s huge amounts of good and does to fellow man
P says...... nope, not getting a word in here, P. lol.
November 5th, 2025 03:26
orchidee said:
Yet Jesus, as one source puts it, \'reserved His strongest condemnation for the hypocritical religious folk of the day, not for ordinary, humble folk\'. No need to \'Bible-bash\' ordinary \'common\' folk. Not that all religious leaders are hypocrites.
Similar to animal cruelty - there\'s huge amounts of good done to animals in contrast to the cruelty man does to them.
Or man\'s inhumanity to man - in contrast, there\'s huge amounts of good and does to fellow man
P says...... nope, not getting a word in here, P. lol.
November 5th, 2025 03:26
The Satan is in the System
Doggerel Dave said:
I really don\'t know how to phrase this, Tristan but please don\'t take it as an insult: I find peace in having no religion/faith. Your faith must be so much torture. Take care of yourself.
November 4th, 2025 18:28
Doggerel Dave said:
I really don\'t know how to phrase this, Tristan but please don\'t take it as an insult: I find peace in having no religion/faith. Your faith must be so much torture. Take care of yourself.
November 4th, 2025 18:28
The Satan is in the System
NinjaGirl said:
I do always like your poems written in this form--the contrast is very powerful!
November 4th, 2025 16:47
NinjaGirl said:
I do always like your poems written in this form--the contrast is very powerful!
November 4th, 2025 16:47
The Satan is in the System
sorenbarrett said:
Tristan am I deceived of does the form represent an S? Maybe I look too closely. Regardless it splits the two verses and evil and good are split and in a form mirror images. So true the message all scams represent themselves as legitimate and in your best interest. Well done my friend
November 4th, 2025 09:19
sorenbarrett said:
Tristan am I deceived of does the form represent an S? Maybe I look too closely. Regardless it splits the two verses and evil and good are split and in a form mirror images. So true the message all scams represent themselves as legitimate and in your best interest. Well done my friend
November 4th, 2025 09:19
The Ghost of Babel
NafisaSB said:
agree with the first sentence wholeheartedly, the rest is greek and latin [or whichever language has been used - lol]
November 4th, 2025 03:08
NafisaSB said:
agree with the first sentence wholeheartedly, the rest is greek and latin [or whichever language has been used - lol]
November 4th, 2025 03:08
faith\'s psalm
NinjaGirl said:
The space before the word \"silence\" is everything! I love it a lot. The dashes too, so well-written.
November 3rd, 2025 22:44
NinjaGirl said:
The space before the word \"silence\" is everything! I love it a lot. The dashes too, so well-written.
November 3rd, 2025 22:44
faith\'s psalm
Paul Bell said:
God is good, says it on the packet.
Someday you will be rewarded with the key to the gate.
Now I know what you\'re thinking, and you would be right.
November 3rd, 2025 14:14
Paul Bell said:
God is good, says it on the packet.
Someday you will be rewarded with the key to the gate.
Now I know what you\'re thinking, and you would be right.
November 3rd, 2025 14:14
faith\'s psalm
Bella Shepard said:
Perhaps faith is in the soul of the beholder, and silence the unspoken language of faith. Beautifully rendered dear friend!
November 3rd, 2025 14:09
Bella Shepard said:
Perhaps faith is in the soul of the beholder, and silence the unspoken language of faith. Beautifully rendered dear friend!
November 3rd, 2025 14:09
faith\'s psalm
orchidee said:
Has Popeye fallen silent again? Doubt it. He\'s still spinach-guzzling! lol. He\'ll haunt us in our dreams before long.
November 3rd, 2025 12:40
orchidee said:
Has Popeye fallen silent again? Doubt it. He\'s still spinach-guzzling! lol. He\'ll haunt us in our dreams before long.
November 3rd, 2025 12:40
faith\'s psalm
sorenbarrett said:
As a child I asked why a prayer said went unanswered and always was told it was God\'s will so I wondered why ask. (Why then the silence) a great ending to this piece. Loved it Tristan
November 3rd, 2025 09:20
sorenbarrett said:
As a child I asked why a prayer said went unanswered and always was told it was God\'s will so I wondered why ask. (Why then the silence) a great ending to this piece. Loved it Tristan
November 3rd, 2025 09:20
Silenced; Yet All Shall Be Well
orchidee said:
A sensible comment from me - almost. I\'m not familiar with that \'bit of French there - Nox, etc. This is bit cryptic for me, even apart from the \'French\'
What\'s worse, I think, is that those who are oppressing still carry on believing all will be OK. And some Jews had a superstitious belief in the Temple.
But - not now Popeye - heehee!
November 3rd, 2025 02:58
orchidee said:
A sensible comment from me - almost. I\'m not familiar with that \'bit of French there - Nox, etc. This is bit cryptic for me, even apart from the \'French\'
What\'s worse, I think, is that those who are oppressing still carry on believing all will be OK. And some Jews had a superstitious belief in the Temple.
But - not now Popeye - heehee!
November 3rd, 2025 02:58
Silenced; Yet All Shall Be Well
orchidee said:
I hear the silence - of Popeye not glugging. It lasted all of, ohh, 23 seconds, and then he started again. Started what? Don\'t answer that! lol.
November 3rd, 2025 02:57
orchidee said:
I hear the silence - of Popeye not glugging. It lasted all of, ohh, 23 seconds, and then he started again. Started what? Don\'t answer that! lol.
November 3rd, 2025 02:57
Silenced; Yet All Shall Be Well
NinjaGirl said:
\"Consequences will caw,\" \"sadness of silence\" \"revelation with reckless\" I love the way you wrote these lines. And the nod to Norwich and all is well makes me smile!
November 2nd, 2025 21:39
NinjaGirl said:
\"Consequences will caw,\" \"sadness of silence\" \"revelation with reckless\" I love the way you wrote these lines. And the nod to Norwich and all is well makes me smile!
November 2nd, 2025 21:39
Silenced; Yet All Shall Be Well
Bella Shepard said:
It is easy to say that ignorance is bliss, but the reality is that it is dangerous and toxic, your poem speaks the truth. Good write!!
November 2nd, 2025 10:18
Bella Shepard said:
It is easy to say that ignorance is bliss, but the reality is that it is dangerous and toxic, your poem speaks the truth. Good write!!
November 2nd, 2025 10:18
Silenced; Yet All Shall Be Well
sorenbarrett said:
How toxic we find the beliefs of others. Our mind too fine a sieve to let the ideas of others pass. Silence the words, burn the books, blind the eyes of those willing to see, hear and feel what others do. A very nice write with a strong message.
November 2nd, 2025 08:32
sorenbarrett said:
How toxic we find the beliefs of others. Our mind too fine a sieve to let the ideas of others pass. Silence the words, burn the books, blind the eyes of those willing to see, hear and feel what others do. A very nice write with a strong message.
November 2nd, 2025 08:32
the sound before faith
Teddy.15 said:
This is very close to something I myself went through just this week, powerful my dear Tristan. 🌹
November 2nd, 2025 04:51
Teddy.15 said:
This is very close to something I myself went through just this week, powerful my dear Tristan. 🌹
November 2nd, 2025 04:51
the sound before faith
orchidee said:
Popeye says he is waiting - for the No.7 bus. A completely irrelevant piece of info here, but he just had to say something, didn\'t he? C\'mon now Popeye, say something sensible, relevant, \'deep\' even. He replies \'glug-glug! lol.
November 1st, 2025 10:06
orchidee said:
Popeye says he is waiting - for the No.7 bus. A completely irrelevant piece of info here, but he just had to say something, didn\'t he? C\'mon now Popeye, say something sensible, relevant, \'deep\' even. He replies \'glug-glug! lol.
November 1st, 2025 10:06
the sound before faith
sorenbarrett said:
And so we all are in this sphere of life where we observe all around us burning. A lovely write my friend and a fave
November 1st, 2025 06:10
sorenbarrett said:
And so we all are in this sphere of life where we observe all around us burning. A lovely write my friend and a fave
November 1st, 2025 06:10
the sound before faith
arqios said:
I read “the sound before faith” as a poem about the raw space before belief, like when you’re stripped of answers and left only with waiting.
The opening cry isn’t confusion but inevitability. The refusal to “play a lyre / while affixed to a pyre” rejects false consolation, insisting on honesty in suffering.
What remains is silence: not yet faith, not quite despair. It’s the cry before belief, the pause before resolution; uncomfortable, but deeply human. 🙏🕊️
November 1st, 2025 05:46
arqios said:
I read “the sound before faith” as a poem about the raw space before belief, like when you’re stripped of answers and left only with waiting.
The opening cry isn’t confusion but inevitability. The refusal to “play a lyre / while affixed to a pyre” rejects false consolation, insisting on honesty in suffering.
What remains is silence: not yet faith, not quite despair. It’s the cry before belief, the pause before resolution; uncomfortable, but deeply human. 🙏🕊️
November 1st, 2025 05:46
Devilishly Dreadful: The Croaker
Paul Bell said:
Free speech, don\'t believe the hype.
You might speak your mind, but that doesn\'t sway the masses.
Doesn\'t matter how big you think you are, the audience is bigger.
November 1st, 2025 04:05
Paul Bell said:
Free speech, don\'t believe the hype.
You might speak your mind, but that doesn\'t sway the masses.
Doesn\'t matter how big you think you are, the audience is bigger.
November 1st, 2025 04:05
Devilishly Dreadful: The Croaker
orchidee said:
I thought you meant Jimmy Krankie, a UK comedian (a woman in real life)! No relation to P.... Ohh we knows the guy by now! lol.
October 31st, 2025 13:04
orchidee said:
I thought you meant Jimmy Krankie, a UK comedian (a woman in real life)! No relation to P.... Ohh we knows the guy by now! lol.
October 31st, 2025 13:04
Devilishly Dreadful: The Croaker
sorenbarrett said:
Tristan I can not but think that this is a satire as well as a poem and that the victim of this joke does not take jokes well although you might say he is a joke himself. A fun read and no I will not hold my tongue despite what the king says.
October 31st, 2025 10:00
sorenbarrett said:
Tristan I can not but think that this is a satire as well as a poem and that the victim of this joke does not take jokes well although you might say he is a joke himself. A fun read and no I will not hold my tongue despite what the king says.
October 31st, 2025 10:00
Devilishly Dreadful: The Croaker
arqios said:
This one reads like a dark fable about free speech. Jimmy keeps cracking jokes, but every time he does, the stakes get higher until he’s literally silenced. I like how the wordplay (poker, croaker, joker) keeps it playful even as the story turns grim. That refrain “It may have cost, but free he spoke” lands like a warning: speaking truth through humour is never really free. 🕊️🙏
October 31st, 2025 08:31
arqios said:
This one reads like a dark fable about free speech. Jimmy keeps cracking jokes, but every time he does, the stakes get higher until he’s literally silenced. I like how the wordplay (poker, croaker, joker) keeps it playful even as the story turns grim. That refrain “It may have cost, but free he spoke” lands like a warning: speaking truth through humour is never really free. 🕊️🙏
October 31st, 2025 08:31
Devilishly Dreadful: The Croaker
Doggerel Dave said:
Jokes can go flat, you know - poor old Jim, the embarrassment!😅🤣😇
October 31st, 2025 07:47
Doggerel Dave said:
Jokes can go flat, you know - poor old Jim, the embarrassment!😅🤣😇
October 31st, 2025 07:47
The House of Westenra
arqios said:
Congratulations! Really enjoyed how this piece twists Stoker’s Dracula into something both familiar and unsettlingly new. The “psychic vampire” feels less like a monster in a cape and more like a stand‑in for the way predators invade the mind and spirit. What hit me hardest was the narrator finally breaking silence, of turning a hoarse cry into resistance. It’s a clever inversion of Mina’s passivity in the novel, showing that voice itself can be a weapon. The Gothic horror is still there, but it’s carrying a very modern truth about how cycles of predation are broken. 🙏🕊️
October 30th, 2025 20:12
arqios said:
Congratulations! Really enjoyed how this piece twists Stoker’s Dracula into something both familiar and unsettlingly new. The “psychic vampire” feels less like a monster in a cape and more like a stand‑in for the way predators invade the mind and spirit. What hit me hardest was the narrator finally breaking silence, of turning a hoarse cry into resistance. It’s a clever inversion of Mina’s passivity in the novel, showing that voice itself can be a weapon. The Gothic horror is still there, but it’s carrying a very modern truth about how cycles of predation are broken. 🙏🕊️
October 30th, 2025 20:12
The House of Westenra
orchidee said:
Ooh yes, I wanna book a month\'s holiday there! Someone will be there with their golden shovel, shovelling spinach - we knows the guy!
Erm, I don\'t want to take evil to new heights - or depths! lol.
October 30th, 2025 10:22
orchidee said:
Ooh yes, I wanna book a month\'s holiday there! Someone will be there with their golden shovel, shovelling spinach - we knows the guy!
Erm, I don\'t want to take evil to new heights - or depths! lol.
October 30th, 2025 10:22
The House of Westenra
Paul Bell said:
Epic write, Tristan, you have taken the journey of evil to new heights.
Isn\'t Bram Stoker, a great role model to follow, though maybe some would disagree.
At this time of the year, it\'s like Dracula walks amongst us.
October 30th, 2025 09:36
Paul Bell said:
Epic write, Tristan, you have taken the journey of evil to new heights.
Isn\'t Bram Stoker, a great role model to follow, though maybe some would disagree.
At this time of the year, it\'s like Dracula walks amongst us.
October 30th, 2025 09:36
The House of Westenra
sorenbarrett said:
This certainly blends gothic and classic horror with an internal and external horror. It tells its story as metaphor predator and victim. Well done Tristan
October 30th, 2025 07:47
sorenbarrett said:
This certainly blends gothic and classic horror with an internal and external horror. It tells its story as metaphor predator and victim. Well done Tristan
October 30th, 2025 07:47
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