desire – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs – Poems by Ronie Dinosaur

Go Fuck Yourself

Posted 4 days ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, action, adaptation, awareness, character, consciousness, contemporarypoetry, DarkPoetry, desire, discipline, emotionalpain, Existentialism, ExistentialLiterature, existentialpoetry, ExistentialThought, ExistentialWriting, flaw, freeverse, HumanCondition, hunger, identity, individualism, innercore, intent, Introspection, introspectivewriting, lifephilosophy, loneliness, meaning, metaphysics, modernpoetry, nihilism, ontology, persistence, personalphilosophy, PhilosophicalPoetry, philosophy, poetry, psychology, reality, resilience, RonieDinosaur, selfknowledge, selfreflection, solitude, suffering, survival, thirst, truth, Virtue.

Go Fuck Yourself I will consume it all—
man and woman, God and beast,
joy and sorrow, famine and feast.
Darkness and light,
humiliation and pride, Read more from here...

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God

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Existential Rehabism, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, action, alignment, authenticity, Autonomy, awareness, character, cognitive clarity, collapse, consciousness, Continuity, decision-making, desire, discipline, endurance, engineering, Ethics, existential, first-order truth, habit, honesty, human condition, inner truth, Integrity, intent, Introspection, loss, mann, minimalism, morality, non-conformity, Observation, performance, personal responsibility, philosophy, presence, Purity, reality, reflection, Residue, resilience, self-awareness, self-discipline, Self-mastery, self-surveillance, solitude, structure, style, suffering, truth.

God Caught between the truth I felt
and reality’s refusal to agree,
I stand in silence, asking:
Is there a man here-
or only the space Read more from here...

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The Unnamed Gift

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, Agency, alignment, Autonomy, boundaries, character, Choice, clarity, consent, Consent Culture, corruption, desire, dignity, discipline, Ethics, ethics of desire, Existentialism, exposure, gift, gravity, human heart, hunger, inner alarm, Innocence, Integrity, loneliness, love, lust, modern love, moral courage, morality, naming, non-consumption, philosophy, posture, power, pressure, Refusal, refusal as strength, responsibility, restraint, self-respect, Selfhood, silence, standing upright, temptation.

The Unnamed Gift When you give a gift,
do you announce it-This is for you-
or do you leave it in the dark
and call the receiver thief?
Hunger exists. Read more from here...

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Look at Me a Song by Ronie Dinosaur

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Boy, character, desire, intent, Look, love, man, song, woman.

They clock the miles carved in my back,
They count the scars across my fists.
They see the iron I never lacked
In the morning’s cold, relentless mist.
They read the words I bled on the page,
A philosophy forged in fire, Read more from here...

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Chapter 37 – Life Taught Me Restraint

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Achievement, Agency, agency-withholding, articulation, attachment, avoidance, boundaries, cognitive dissonance, communication, confession, consent, consequence, desire, emotional labor, Ethics, Existentialism, failure modes, honesty, identity, Intimacy., Isolation, learning, loneliness, loss, masculinity, Mastery, memory, moral discipline, optimization, overfitting, permission, phenomenology, power dynamics, procedural grief, Reciprocity, recognition, regret, repression, restraint, self-accountability, self-authorship, self-erasure, silence, social norms, speech acts, time, translation, unmet-need, unspoken, vulnerability.

Chapter 37 - Life Taught Me Restraint Life Taught Me Restraint - Part I Restraint became my native tongue;
desire learned to speak only in silence.
I hid the wanting so well
even I forgot its shape. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 55 – Feeding and Nourishment

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, aftermath, Agency, boundaries, care, coming-of-age, consent, consumption, desire, dignity, emotional ethics, emotional labor, emotional restraint, first-love, freedom, friendship, Heartbreak, hunger, imbalance, inner conflict, Intention, Intimacy., invitation, longing, loss, Maturity, memory, metaphor, misalignment, moral clarity, naming, nourishment, Poetic prose, power dynamics, principle, proximity, Psychological realism, Refusal, regret, relational failure, restraint vs rejection, silence, slow love, tenderness, unresolved questions, unspoken love, vulnerability, youth.

Feeding and Nourishment  Verse 1 You waited hours just for me,
Pulled me close upon your knee.
Said, “Here you are, come on,”
Fed me slow with your own hands. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 143 – Character is Not Respect

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, authenticity, character, character testing, cynicism, Defiance, desire, emotional honesty, emotional intelligence, ethical reflection, Ethics, Existential Integrity, existential struggle, Existentialism, hope, human behavior, human condition, Human nature, identity, independence, inner fire, inner strength, Integrity, internal validation, Introspection, life lessons, life trials, mental fortitude, mental-resilience, metaphysical, moral philosophy, morality, personal accountability, personal growth, personal philosophy, personal strength, philosophical poetry, poetic reflection, psychology, rebellion, respect, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 143, Self-determination, self-discipline, Self-mastery, self-respect, self-worth, Social commentary, social critique, societal norms, stoicism, survival.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 143 – Character is Not Respect Character has nothing to do with external validation-
with the socially rewarded currency called respect.
It looks at your respect and says only one thing:
fuck off.
That is all it ever has to say. Read more from here...

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Sorcery

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, ambiguity, autobiographical fiction, body language, boundaries, character, confession, consent, desire, dignity, discipline, disillusionment, emotional labor, first-order truth, Heartbreak, Intimacy., Kaliyug myth, longing, loss, masculinity, modern alienation, Modernity, moral economy, mythic voice, peacock metaphor, power dynamics, Pride, Psychological realism, Purity, Refusal, rejection, restraint, restraint ethics, romantic idealism, Ronie Dinosaur, self-respect, Selfhood, solitude, Sorcery, stoicism, swan metaphor, symbolism, transformation, unrequited-love, vulnerability, will.

Sorcery I came back having lost-so who has ever come back having won?
I lived by my own will; this is not called losing.
I became Ronie to the whole world-from five-year-old children to everyone at the table, at the door, or on the floor.
In return for the love I gave the boy within me, I could not gather love from a girl for myself.
The generosity of my spirit, my character in action, my golden intent-and yet my desire proved fruitless. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 127 – What Is Love?

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Alienation, asymmetry, boundaries, chosen deprivation, consent, desire, dignity, dominance, emotional ethics, emotional mismatch, Ethics, gun metaphor, hunger-metaphor, identity, inner conflict, inner law, Integrity, Intimacy., invisible rupture, longing, love, masculine restraint, misunderstanding, modern romance, moral injury, morality, non-consummation, philosophy, power, power dynamics, psychology, quiet violence, Refusal, rejection, restraint, restraint versus appetite, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 127, self-control, silence, silence as violence, starvation, submission, surrender, trauma, unmet desire, unrecognized virtue, vulnerability, What Is Love.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 127 - What Is Love? A seat in the university lecture hall
always saved for me-
her Ronie, the only one allowed to sit.
She would wait in the room,
never calling, never texting, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 125 – Where do I go?

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, acceptance without hope, adaptation to pain, Alienation, breathing underwater, cosmic imagery, cosmic indifference, desire, despair without melodrama, Detachment, drowning metaphor, emotional realism, existential poetry, fatalism, godlessness, grief without closure, human insignificance, identity erosion, inner exile, inward gaze, loneliness, longing, Loss of innocence, love without reciprocity, Meaninglessness, memory vs atoms, metaphysical loss, missed youth, modern existentialism, modern verse, nihilistic love, obsession, personal mythology, philosophical poetry, reflective verse, rehabilitation, resignation, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 125, secular spirituality, self-awareness, shadow chasing, silent suffering, solitude, spiritual absence, truth and illusion, unanswered prayer, unfulfilled desire, unrequited-love, Where do I go, witnessless suffering.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 125 - Where do I go? Some found God.
Some found the one God carved out just for them.
I found neither God
nor even a fleeting glimpse of my beloved.
The universe flared into being and winked out again- Read more from here...

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