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Where We Once Met

Posted 4 months ago under Biology, Botany, Chemistry, DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology Tagged: abandonment without blame, Absence, absolute cold, anti-hope, anti-lyricism, architecture, austerity aesthetics, clarity, cold logic, diagnostic voice, Disconnection, distance, emotional entropy, emotional minimalism, emotional shutdown, existential poetry, existential rigor, human isolation, inner architecture, inner geology, Integrity, loss without sentiment, memory decay, Met, metaphysical austerity, modern poetics, Negation, non-consolation, non-recovery, permanence, philosophical literature, philosophical minimalism, post-romanticism, post-trauma writing, precision language, refusal of meaning, relational collapse, Residue, residue report, silence, solitude, structural ethics, structural-integrity, systems theory, tectonic philosophy, tectonic survival, unsentimental grief, void.

Where We Once Met Intersection logged and deleted-
coordinates touched once,
now unregistered.
No fragrance scheduled for release-
no bud, no breeze, Read more from here...

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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 96 – Stairway to Hell

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abstinence, Agency, ambiguity, attention, awakening, boundaries, college, consent, consequence, Control, desire, Detachment, discipline, distance, dominance, ego, Ethics, fallout, friendship, Hierarchy, humiliation, identity, irony, loneliness, loss, lust, masculinity, memory, miscommunication, narrative, Observation, perception, performance, power, Pride, reflection, Reputation, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96, rumor, self-myth, silence, Stairway to Hell, stairwell, status, temptation, transformation, trauma, vulnerability, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96 - Stairway to Hell As an engineering student with an analytical mind-trained in basic physics and mathematics, capable enough-my mind first studied her eyes in the college corridor.
She planted her right hand on the wall above my shoulder, stopping me mid-step as I began descending the stairs in the middle of the corridor.
Jovial, yet forceful.
Why wasn’t she afraid of Ronie?
She was just as tall as I was. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 0 – Where Would Ronie be?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: appeal, applause, Arjuna, Arjuna reference, burden of existence, character study, colder, cool, cosmic indifference, dark poetry, death, death symbolism, distance, emotional isolation, emotional resilience, emotional weight, entire, existential crisis, existential defiance, existential poetry, experiment, footprint, grief, habit, hero archetype inversion, house, human struggle, identity crisis, Indian mythology, inner conflict, inner journey, inner strength, introspective poem, king, larger, life as a sentence, literary poem, loneliness, male loneliness, MaleLoneliness, masculine grief, masculinity, mental endurance, metaphysical poem, modern myth, mortality, mythic imagery, mythic realism, nihilism, personal mythology, philosophical poem, poetic monologue, poetic narrative, poetic philosophy, poetic storytelling, poetic symbolism, problem, psychological depth, psychological poem, resilience, Ronie, Ronie Dinosaur, rules, self-definition, self-reflection, Shiva, Shiva reference, silent endurance, slave, snake, spiritual emptiness, spiritual fire, stoic masculinity, stoicism, style, suffering, suffering narrative, surrender, survival, unbearable, walking symbolism, warrior spirit, worshipper, zeros.

Ronie Dinosaur walks alone-
not from necessity,
but from habit
and from style.
He moves down streets
where some girl might pause Read more from here...

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The Ghost Heavier Than the Body

Posted 7 months ago under DINOSAUR, Existential Rehabism, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: alive, ant, beautiful, Body, broken hearts, cage, carry, dead, distance, escape, faces, Ghost, grief, Heavier, immeculate, monumental, moral, mourns, persistence, personalities, seal-packed, Shiva, sorrow, space, Travel.

I came into this world
and fell in love.
Who do I sing this to
if you refuse to lend me your ears?
The love you woke inside me
but never let travel the full distance Read more from here...

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Fingers

Posted 7 months ago under DINOSAUR Tagged: bright, bubble, buy, desire, distance, doll, firecracker, glimpse, love, pop, sold, wonder.

A man who never distinguished between dolls and a sold one.
A woman showed me why a sold one is called a whore-
then pointed a finger at me. Why would she call someone like me?
That's why people buy and light firecrackers
by their own hand.
Desire is a bubble Read more from here...

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