aging – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs – Poems by Ronie Dinosaur

Sing — 07 Feb 2005 by Ronie Dinosaur

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: 2005, aftermath, aging, archival writing, authenticity, boundaries, confessional poetry, crossed-out poem, diary poem, distance, early twenties, emotional clarity, emotional discipline, endurance, first-love, growth, handwriting, Heartbreak, history, Indian college, longing, longing without consent, loss, memory, naming absence, paper artifacts, plea, private writing, Refusal, refusal to send, regret, repetition, restraint, restraint learned, Ronie, self-awareness, self-command, silence, solitude, song lyrics, testimony, time, unrequited-love, unsent letter, voice, vulnerability, waiting, witness, yellowed pages, youth melancholy.

Sing — 07 Feb 2005 Sing,
sing for me,
I am waiting for you.
Oh, it doesn’t rain now;
everything just seems Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 112 – What Is Time?

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology Tagged: Absence, aging, awareness, consciousness, Continuity, cosmic indifference, distance, emotional gravity, emotional-truth, entropy, existence, existential reflection, Heartbreak, Human Cost, human finitude, identity, impermanence, inevitability, inner witness, inwardness, Isolation, longing, loss, love deferred, memory, metaphysics, missed timing, nostalgia, parallel lives, perception, persistence, personal-history, philosophical poetry, photon, physics metaphor, reality, regret, relativity, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 112, self-recognition, separation, silence, solitude, subjective time, temporality, time, unrealized futures, unrequited-love, waiting, What Is Time.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 112 - What Is Time? A change in status in someone’s heart.
Yesterday, I was everything.
Today, I cannot even greet you as an equal-
you, another man’s wife,
your children now the age we were Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 107 – What is Bad Luck?

Posted 5 months ago under Existential Rehabism, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, accountability, Agency, aging, Anatomy, bad luck, being, Body, Brutality, Change, Chapter 107., character, Choice, cold, Companion, decay, desire, Essence, fragility, growth, honesty, human condition, identity, intent, Iron, logic, loneliness, Luck, Maturity, minimalism, mirror, origin, philosophy, presence, recovery, resilience, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 107, Self-Audit, shadow, silence, sobriety, solitude, Source, Stasis, survival, Syllogism, Transcendence, truth, void, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 107 - What is Bad Luck? What is bad luck?
Wrong time,
wrong place.
Who chose that time, that place?
Who carried me there? Read more from here...

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Compound Isolation

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, adulthood, aging, Betrayal, character, childhood, Compound, currency, Detachment, economics, family, human, inheritance, Isolation, life, morality, obligation, Observation, philosophy, poverty, realism, reflection, society, Value, wealth, worth.

Title - Compound Isolation Childhood passed in studies,
adulthood in earning.
Middle age slipped into philosophy and rehab-
and old age will not come at all.
I have seen the poor carry a king’s attitude, Read more from here...

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Four Falls, Four Walks

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accuracy, aging, Alienation, character, clarity, continuance, Courage, Detachment, dignity, discipline, existence, finality, Four Falls, Four Walks, identity, Integrity, loneliness, nihilism, philosophy, posthope, resolve, restraint, solitude, stance, truth, Walking, will.

Ronie Dinosaur — Before the Walk: An Opening Statement

Title - Four Falls, Four Walks
Just like a seventy year old man at the end of his days-
quiet, worn out, defeated, yet still willing to live-
there is something left in him.
Perhaps he wants a second chance,
but he no longer has the energy for it. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 61 – Beg for Love

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR Tagged: aging, arrogance, awakening, Beg for Love, despair, evidence, Existentialism, failure, fate, fear, honesty, identity, Isolation, loneliness, love, memory, nihilism, reckoning, regret, rejection, resignation, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 61, selfrespect, silence, time, truth, Utterly Unrequired, vulnerability.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 61 - Beg for Love Like the shape of a peeled water chestnut,
that thing so precious,
so rare-
for which people bend and kneel,
join hands in silent prayer, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 53 – The Tough Gets Going

Posted 6 months ago under Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Psychology, Technology Tagged: aging, AI and humanity, anti-romanticism, authenticity, character, depression, endurance, Existentialism, failure, invisibility, loneliness, masculinity, Meaninglessness, modern alienation, nihilism, philosophical poetry, Refusal, rejection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 53, self-verification, social value, solitude, The Tough Gets Going, time, truth, unchosen integrity.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 53 - The Tough Gets Going When the going gets tough,
the tough gets going.
After time has stripped everything bare-
possessions, people, illusions-
that’s when, in the thick of depression, Read more from here...

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