dignity – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs – Poems by Ronie Dinosaur

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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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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Climate Report a Song by Ronie Dinosaur

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, anti-hope, anti-redemption, anti-sentimental, authenticity, character, consciousness, Cost, Defiance, desert metaphor, dignity, discipline, discipline over desire, emotional-austerity, endurance, existential literature, Existentialism, exposure, first-order truth, identity, inner climate, inner exile, Integrity, Introspection, inwardness, Isolation, loneliness, lyrical philosophy, mann, minimalist-poetry, modern myth, modern philosophy, moral psychology, nonconformity, philosophical poetry, post-romanticism, Psychological realism, Refusal, resilience, self-respect, self-sovereignty, Selfhood, silence, solitude, stoicism, truth seeking, uncompromising voice.

Climate Report a Song by Ronie Dinosaur Verse 1 No life here-
neither public nor private,
not even personal.
I only watch the world Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 144 – No Borrowed Grace

Posted 5 months ago under Artificial Intelligence, DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-barter, anti-theism, authenticity, Autonomy, Continuation, death-awareness, Declaration, Defiance, dignity, dust-and-gods, earned-worth, endurance, Ethics, existential-song, Existentialism, fate, finality, free-verse, humanism, identity, inner law, Integrity, inward sovereignty, Isolation, minimalism, moral accounting, Moral integrity, mortality, mythic voice, Narrative Poetry, No Borrowed Grace, perseverance, personal myth, philosophical song, Pride, Refusal, refusal-of-grace, resilience, Resistance, resolve, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 144, self-authorship, self-respect, Selfhood, solitude, solitude-forge, stoicism, unborrowed-strength, uncompromised-self, Virtue, Walking, walking-motif.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 144 - No Borrowed Grace No borrowed grace, no sullied core-pride etched in bone.
Yesterday’s shadow whispers death, yet the step endures.
The spirit trades for nothing forged in fleeting gold.
An unyielding path, where virtue walks without a crown.
No gift from any god survives this barren realm- Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 137 – The Fallen Cone and the Kite

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, ambiguity costs, attachment collapse, behavioral psychology, boundary ethics, character over comfort, clarity, consequence over intent, dignity, emotional economy, exposure, first-order inference, first-person philosophy, human limits, identity continuity, impermanence, impermanent love, internal consistency, inward sovereignty, lived-philosophy, loss without melodrama, memory preservation, minimalism, moral discipline, non-bargaining, non-entitlement, Personal Ethics, poverty vs dignity, Psychological realism, quiet resolve, record not nostalgia, Refusal, refusal of degradation, rejection without blame, resilience ethics, restraint, restraint as strength, self-reduction critique, self-respect, standards, survival critique, symbolic realism, unsentimental poetry, untethering, vulnerability without spectacle.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 137 – The Fallen Cone and the Kite Her love was like
a melting ice cream.
I hoarded coins for days-
small, dull metals scraped from pockets and dust-
until they weighed enough Read more from here...

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Health

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, anti-sentimentality, austerity, Autonomy, bodily-integrity, character, clarity, deprivation, dignity, discipline, discipline over hope, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existential poverty, Existentialism, grounding, hardship, health, human condition, Human Cost, infrastructure, limits, mental-resilience, minimalism, modern-poetry, moral stamina, necessity, non-negotiables, perseverance, philosophy, poverty, prerequisite, prose poetry, realism, reality-based ethics, Refusal, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-command, self-honesty, stoicism, survival, survival ethics, truthfulness, walking forward.

Health No status, no money, no love—
no wild fantasy to run loose
and soothe the wound poverty carved.
When nothing remains—no luck, no family,
no status, no money, no love— 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 135 – What Is Ronie Dinosaur Who’s Still Walking

Posted 5 months ago under Artificial Intelligence, DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-automation, anti-credentialism, authenticity, authorship, becoming, character, creator-mindset, depth-over-status, dignity, endurance, existential walk, Existentialism, human core, human residue, identity, inner law, lived-truth, loneliness, long-walk, meaning-making, modern-masculinity, mythic symbolism, narrative-identity, nonconformity, original voice, pain-transformed, persistence, philosophical poetry, post-romance, Refusal, refusal-to-bend, rejection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 135, scars, self-sovereignty, self-witness, Selfhood, silence, solitude, Still Walking, survival, testimony, time-density, truth-over-reward, uncommodifiable, unreplicable, Walking, What Is Ronie Dinosaur.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 135 – What Is Ronie Dinosaur Who’s Still Walking [Verse 1] You followed the map they drew on the wall,
took every turn the syllabus told.
I walked through fire no textbook recalls,
burned till the ashes turned into gold. 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 124 – Where Are You?

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, ambiguity, authenticity, Betrayal, character test, cultural hypocrisy, despair, dignity, dignity in pain, emotional endurance, emotional exile, emotional injustice, emotional neglect, empty chair, ethical suffering, existential pain, exploitation, fractured identity, human hunger, inner collapse, Integrity, intimacy denied, invisibility, Isolation, loneliness, longing, love economy, manipulation, misread intent, moral restraint, moral-loneliness, power imbalance, psychological trauma, purity punished, rejection, restraint ethics, restraint-vs-desire, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 124, self-respect, shadow-self, silence, sincerity, social alienation, social cruelty, spiritual absence, thirst metaphor, transactional love, unrequited-love, unseen man, Where Are You.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 124 - Where Are You? I have spent my whole life in thirst.
Where did everyone go?
Why did no one come to me?
She did everything with everyone else,
yet never even glanced my way. Read more from here...

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