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Unreciprocated Respect

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: absence as action, affect without reward, anti-redemptive stance, asymmetrical respect, boundary setting, chosen exile, cold-clarity, deliberate withdrawal, dignity without reciprocity, emotional abstinence, emotional discipline, emotional finality, emotional irreversibility, emotional minimalism, emotional severance, emotional-austerity, ethical distance, ethical solitude, existential posture, existential walking, existential-motion, inward consent, love as decision, love without claim, moral asymmetry, moral closure, moral-refusal, non-attachment, non-transactional love, post-romantic ethics, posture over feeling, quiet departure, refusal of consolation, refusal of hope, rejection of virtue, renunciation, self-authored guilt, self-condemnation, self-exile, self-naming, self-negating affection, silence as boundary, stoic rupture, unreciprocated-love, unsentimental-love, unshared affection, unsparing honesty, walking metaphor.

Unreciprocated Respect “If I love you, I want nothing from you-not even your love.”
-In common usage, this is performative humility.
People quote this line and feel grateful,
as if it captures pure selflessness.
When I say it, I mean it absolutely: Read more from here...

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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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I Look Like You — 20 Jan 2005

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: 2005 poem, adolescent identity, autobiographical poem, decay and memory, early authorship, early heartbreak, emotional dependency, emotional honesty, emotional minimalism, emotional mirror, emotional mirroring, existential youth, fear retention, first love residue, fragile hope, ghost self, identity fracture, inner collapse, inner dialogue, internal critic, inward gaze, loneliness voice, longing presence, loss illusion, love projection, memory artifact, mirror imagery, non-performative art, personal archive, personal mythology, poetic fragment, private writing, psychological reflection, raw-poetry, self-alienation, self-criticism, self-erasure, self-growth anxiety, self-recognition failure, silent grief, teenage introspection, time capsule poem, unfinished self, unrequited-love, unsent confession, yellowed pages, youth despair.

I Look Like You — 20 Jan 2005 Did I know?
I am a ghost,
hiding a mirror in which
I can’t see myself.
Yet there is hope-an illusion: Read more from here...

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Claim (24 years ago, in 28 February 2002)

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, adolescence, arrested development, coming-of-age, delayed-growth, depression themes, early disillusionment, emotional minimalism, emotional trauma, endurance, existential crisis, existential poetry, existential waiting, fatalism, first-love, grief narrative, humiliation, identity fracture, inner exile, inner monologue, Introspection, Isolation, loneliness, lost youth, memory and time, non-selfishness, outsider perspective, personal mythology, philosophical writing, Poetic prose, poetic-confession, Psychological realism, rain imagery, raw honesty, rejection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur, self-denial, silent suffering, smoke and rain, survival without hope, teenage loss, time stagnation, truth claim, unsynchronized life, waiting motif, window metaphor.

Claim (24 years ago, in 28 February 2002) Those which came and will come for years
Are all the same clouds,
Which rain and rain again.
In a way, the world might have changed,
But nothing has changed on this side of the window. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 132 – The World Runs on Courage

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-romance, Courage, dignity in loss, emotional ethics, emotional integrity, emotional minimalism, emotional restraint, endurance without reward, ethical love, existential poetry, existential walking, grief discipline, grief processing, human core, human residue, inner courage, inner witness, internalized myth, introspective literature, inward resistance, loneliness narrative, masculine-vulnerability, modern myth, moral stamina, mythic realism, non-transactional love, personal cosmology, personal mythology, philosophical verse, poetic defiance, post-romantic poetry, Psychological realism, quiet endurance, quiet heroism, refusal of consumption, refusal of spectacle, refusal-to-beg, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 132, silent loyalty, solitary resolve, spiritual secularism, stoic movement, survivor voice, symbolic monsters, tragic clarity, truth-without-consolation, unrequited-love, unsaid love, walking metaphor, World Runs, wounded narrator.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 132 – The World Runs on Courage The world runs on courage alone-
otherwise the monsters
would have devoured everything.
Somewhere in her heart,
something must have been saved for me too; Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 104 — Restraint

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: austere lyricism, character, Control, cult poetry, Delayed Gratification, desire withheld, devotion without possession, dignity, discipline, emotional minimalism, emotional-austerity, ethical desire, ethical eros, existential romance, Existentialism, grief addressed sideways, hunger, hunger-metaphor, imagination, inner law, Integrity, Interior Monologue, intimacy without touch, loneliness, longing, masculine restraint, masculinity, memory, Mental Mastery, modern asceticism, Moral High Ground, moral tension, noncommercial poetry, nonperformative love, Originality vs Copy, post-romantic writing, principled refusal, Psychological realism, psychological-poetry, quiet intensity, Refusal, refusal culture, relational philosophy, restraint, restraint as power, restraint ideology, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 104, self-awareness, self-denial, slow burn, South Asian Literature, tension, The Godown, The Zeigarnik Effect, thirst, unconsummated love, Unfinished Business, unmet desire, unsentimental-love.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 104 - Restraint A hungry stomach never forgets why I let her go.
An upright character remembers-down to the last detail-why I walked away.
My heart aches
not for what happened,
not for what might have been, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 86 – Permanently Done

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, Alienation, anti-narrative, anti-romanticism, authenticity, awareness, awareness practice, boredom, clarity-over-hope, consciousness, consciousness over comfort, Detachment, disillusionment, Done, emotional minimalism, emotional withdrawal, existential honesty, Existentialism, impermanence, inner exile, internal monologue, inward gaze, lived-philosophy, lucid despair, Meaninglessness, mental-clarity, modern life, modern solitude, nihilism, observational poetry, outsider perspective, Permanently, personal myth, philosophical prose, psychological fatigue, Psychological realism, quiet rebellion, Refusal, resignation, Resistance, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 86, self-awareness, self-contained identity, self-observation, social comparison, solitude, spiritual exhaustion, unfinished life, walking forward.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 86 - Permanently Done They’re working on that research.
Oh please.
Don’t be brave.
Don’t be broken.
I want no one. Read more from here...

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