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Palimpsest Poem

Posted 1 month ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, annotated poem, archival poetry, attachment, autobiographical poetry, confessional poetry, crossed-out text, distance and desire, documentary lyric, emotional asymmetry, emotional residue, endurance, evidence-based poetry, existential longing, first-order truth, grief, internal collapse, intimacy and distance, irreversible moment, lived reality, loneliness, longing without hope, love as demand, love without reciprocity, marginalia, memory and loss, Negation, obsession, Palimpsest, persistence, poem, private history, proof of love, psychological record, Refusal, refusal to romanticize, rejection, restraint, silence, solitude, storm metaphor, survival, temporal layering, truth over beauty, unrequited-love, vulnerability, waiting.

Palimpsest Poem If nothing saves you,
what do you still do?
What does one do?
What do you do?
And then what do I do? Read more from here...

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Sing — 07 Feb 2005 by Ronie Dinosaur

Posted 2 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 128 – Seventeen Years to a Screen

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-romance, asymmetrical affection, character over desire, chronology of loss, confessional poetry, crater metaphor, cult book potential, delayed adulthood, digital alienation, dignity under neglect, economic precarity, emotional-starvation, ethical restraint, existential literature, existential witness, family obligation, father’s death, grief narrative, human cost of restraint, Indian literary voice, invisible men, isolation without ideology, masculine restraint, memory as burden, modern masculinity crisis, modern solitude, non-redemptive ending, pain without spectacle, philosophical prose, post-romantic disillusionment, Psychological realism, quiet suffering, refusal of victimhood, refusal-to-beg, rejection trauma, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 128, screen, screen-mediated life, Seventeen Years, silence as resistance, stoic endurance, survival without hope, time and loss, time as violence, truth-without-consolation, unacknowledged labor, unchosen loneliness, underground literature, unpaid devotion, walking without destination, working-class sacrifice.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 128 - Seventeen Years to a Screen From 2003-Frooti,
who swore she was only a friend-
to 2020-Noorie,
where money changed hands-
I no longer know Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 103 – Reflection: Love Without Witness

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: character and restraint, confessional poetry, dignity in love, dignity over pleasure, emotional asymmetry, emotional isolation, emotional restraint, ethical suffering, existential romance, failed intimacy, grief without spectacle, human limitation, inner discipline, internal-conflict, introspective verse, invisible love, literary introspection, loneliness and time, love, love and character, love as illusion, love without witness, memory and loss, modern tragic love, moral endurance, moral-loneliness, personal mythology, personal narrative, philosophical poetry, Philosophical reflection, poetic realism, poetic rejection, psychological depth, quiet heartbreak, reflection, reflective chapter, rejection poetry, restrained desire, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 103, self-awareness, silent devotion, solitude and meaning, time and consequence, time as witness, truth in restraint, unreciprocated-love, unreturned affection, unseen sacrifice, unspectacular love, witness, witnessless devotion.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 103 - Reflection: Love Without Witness I loved you with character.
I still do.
Love poured from the heart
spills as emotion, visible to all.
Love from the flesh Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93 – What a Wonderful World

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, bleak clarity, brothel narrative, Capitalism, class consciousness, commodification, confessional poetry, contemporary poetry, death and illness, dignity, emotional deprivation, emotional-austerity, emotional-truth, ethical tension, Ethics, existential literature, first-person narrative, grief, honesty, Human Cost, human worth, Indian English poetry, intimacy without love, late modern poetry, loneliness, loss, masculinity, money and value, moral accounting, moral injury, nihilism resisted, personal philosophy, philosophical poetry, power dynamics, quiet rage, realism, realism-over-romance, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93, silence, social critique, social hypocrisy, solitude, solitude ethics, survivor voice, transactional intimacy, trauma writing, unsentimental writing, value collapse, vulnerability, Wonderful World.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93 - What a Wonderful World My mother died two and a half years ago.
My father just suffered a heart attack.
At thirty-seven, single, I felt utterly unable to cope.
When I headed to the brothel, I knew exactly where I was going.
I kept telling myself: They don't give love; they sell what you pay for-and that's all you'll get. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 147 – Fifty Mississippis, The Morning Hug

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: asking permission, basement suffocation, batch separation, college legend, college romance, confessional poetry, consent dynamics, corridor moment, crowd mockery, dark obedience, Delhi University brag, detained semester, dignified rejection, emotional restraint, emotional timing, ethical touch, Fifty, footsteps interruption, free verse narrative, fun in dark, gentle dominance, girlfriend proposal, heart protection, missed connection, Mississippi counting, Mississippis, morning hug, mutual grip, never to return, non-physical closeness, nostalgic regret, open air relief, poetic timing, popularity isolation, pre-girlfriend days, pride over pity, principled distance, quiet longing, realized obedience, Ronie Dinosaur, roof escape, separate ways, series restraint, silent surrender, simple no, smile curve, sparkle eyes, The Morning Hug, three proposals, timed intimacy, unrequited-love, unspoken power, unspoken understanding, viral heartbreak, vulnerability surrender.

Title – Fifty Mississippis, The Morning Hug I came and saw you in the morning,
and without a word, I was in your arms-
without me knowing or asking, “How are you?”
Your arms were around me.
I thought maybe it was just a gesture, Read more from here...

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The Birthday Cake

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, Agency, birthday, Birthday Cake, cake metaphor, Choice, confessional poetry, consent, contemporary voice, cultural specificity, desire and refusal, emotional discipline, ethical restraint, existential ethics, extended metaphor, fragility, guilt without blame, hunger, intimacy without possession, Intimacy., longing, loss, memory, minimalist ethics, modern lyric, naming as violence, narrative poem, non-consumption, philosophical poetry, quiet defiance, Reciprocity, recognition, recognition without ownership, refusal to explain, relational power, restraint, restraint over catharsis, self-possession, silence as agency, silence speaks, symbolic object, trust the reader, unresolved tension, unspoken language, vulnerability, withholding meaning.

Title - The Birthday Cake Part I - The Crime of Questioning Like a criminal wiping fingerprints from the scene,
if you are still asking yourself
was it right or wrong,
was it a mistake, Read more from here...

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Four Falls Philosophy

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: addiction-recovery, anti-romantic poetry, ascetic living, autobiographical philosophy, autobiographical verse, character formation, character over desire, confessional poetry, discipline over pleasure, emotional restraint, endurance literature, endurance mindset, existential poetry, existential realism, first love loss, grief poetry, hunger and restraint, inner strength, Isolation, lived-philosophy, loneliness, loss of mother, masculine-vulnerability, mental toughness, minimalist suffering, nihilism tempered by will, personal mythology, philosophical realism, physical discipline, quiet defiance, refusal of victimhood, rehabilitation journey, rejection and resolve, rejection without bitterness, resilience, self-authored life, self-discipline, self-made identity, sobriety journey, solitude as identity, stoic philosophy, suffering and growth, survival ethics, trauma narrative, truth-over-comfort, unrequited-love, walking alone, willpower.

Title - Four Falls Philosophy That girl-my love at first sight-
I watched her walk away that final day,
no fight, no plea, just silence in the light.
The first fall came when school was done:
no top college seat I’d won. Read more from here...

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