endurance – Page 5 – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

Why Not Me?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment trauma, Agency, attachment, Betrayal, boundaries, consent, desire vs respect, dignity, emotional abandonment, emotional labor, endurance, existential questioning, fairness, friendship breakup, Heartbreak, human condition, incompatibility, inner conflict, Isolation, loneliness, longing, loss, male vulnerability, melancholia, memory, misalignment, moral conflict, moral solitude, patience, philosophical poetry, reflective verse, refusal-to-beg, rejection, restraint, restraint over desire, self-respect, self-withdrawal, shame, silence, slow burn, solitude, time, unanswered questions, unrequited-love, why not me, withdrawal.

Title - Why Not Me? With the heart that called you friend,
I asked you to be my girl.
You said no-straight, no pretend.
What’s a guy supposed to do in this world?
Should I stand there, beg, and plead, Read more from here...

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Defeat’s Quiet Victory

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-hero, anti-victory, Defeat, defiance-without-hope, dignity, endurance, ethical-stance, existential poetry, inner-resistance, Integrity, lived-philosophy, loss-and-continuance, masculine-vulnerability, moral-refusal, persistence, poverty-with-dignity, quiet, quiet defiance, quiet rebellion, refusal-to-conform, resilience, scars, silence, stoicism, survival, victory, walking forward, wounded-strength.

Defeat’s Quiet Victory When so many wounds have been inflicted deep,
how does the wounded still claim victory?
They won the battles, loud and clear,
while he lost the war, year after year.
Yet Ronie is a hard-luck man with style- Read more from here...

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Nuclear Will

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-romanticism, Control, dark spoken word, Defiance, determination, discipline, endurance, existential poetry, human will, industrial tone, inner fire, intensity, lone wolf, merit over status, minimalism, nihilism, Nuclear, psychological depth, resilience, restrained rage, Self-mastery, silence, solitude, stoic will, truth, unbowed spirit, will.

Title - Nuclear Will YOUTUBE VIDEO Food heat, spice heat,
youth’s wild blood-
brain-fire fleeting,
all noise, all flood. Read more from here...

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Tradition

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, anger restrained, anti-romanticism, class and wealth, cultural observation, disillusionment, emotional realism, endurance, existential poetry, human worth, identity, loneliness, moral-hypocrisy, nihilistic undertone, personal truth, power dynamics, psychological introspection, realism in relationships, rejection of false virtue, resentment, social critique, social hierarchy, solitude, tradition vs modernity, walking forward.

Title - Tradition I crave to break
these moral chains-
manipulative tradition’s reins.
Gentleness twisted Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 146 – Ronie Dinosaur’s Song – Spine of Barren Soil

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Existential Rehabism, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, Backbone, discipline, endurance, equality, existential-strength, honesty, hunger, Integrity, labor, masculinity, motion, relational-giving, relational-insight, relational-maturity, resilience, responsibility, Sacrifice, scarcity, Self-mastery, self-respect, solitude, truth, vigilance, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur’s Song - Spine of Barren Soil Spoken Interlude (Insight)
(Music drops to a sparse beat. Voice close, raw.)
She never says “don’t go” out loud-
she calls you close, then holds you without a word.
A man doesn’t summon. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 88 – Responsibility

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, authority, Backbone, care-under-cost, depth, endurance, eternal-labor, hierarchy-of-life, Integrity, labor, masculinity, motion, parent, philosophy, real-work, resilience, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 88, Sacrifice, shepherd, solitude, survival, tangible-life, teacher, unsentimental, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 88 – Responsibility Responsibility: parent → teacher → shepherd.
Depth of life: shepherd → teacher → parent.
The shepherd owns the widest sky of silence,
walks miles before sunrise,
bathes in ice rivers, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 84 – What Is Life

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: alignment, anti-nihilism, authenticity, Autonomy, becoming, character, consciousness, creative will, desire, discipline, endurance, ethical selfhood, existential clarity, existential courage, existential poetry, Existentialism, human condition, identity, individualism, inner law, inner life, Introspection, inward journey, lived-philosophy, meaning, meaning through action, metaphysical inquiry, modern stoicism, nonconformity, persistence, personal mythology, personal truth, philosophical prose, philosophical realism, philosophy-of-life, poetic philosophy, purpose, refusal-of-illusion, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 84, self-actualization, Self-determination, self-honesty, Self-Responsibility, Selfhood, solitude, solitude and strength, spiritual independence, truth seeking, What Is Life, will.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 84 - What Is Life Twenty years ago, obviously-
reproduction.
And that consciousness business.
But mainly: life should not end.
Its whole purpose- Read more from here...

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Bhoot Jolokia Fiery Curry

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, anger, body-politics, class, commodification, confession, cremation-ground, cultural-symbolism, desire, domestic-power, emotional neglect, endurance, Exile, Existentialism, faith, family-structure, free-verse, godlessness, hunger, hypocrisy, hypocrisy-of-virtue, identity, Indian-society, inheritance, Isolation, Krishna-metaphor, loneliness, male-lament, marginalization, masculinity, money, morality, nameplate, nihilism, Outsider, patriarchy, power, rage-poetry, self-indictment, sex-work, sexuality, shame, silence, social critique, status, temple, thirsty-crow, voyeurism, Walking, witness.

Title - Bhoot Jolokia Fiery Curry Sometimes a man has to look in the mirror
at least once a day,
maybe after taking a dump,
while washing his hands.
I have no one. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 – Private Law

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Asceticism, austerity, authority, Autonomy, awareness, character, Coherence, consciousness, Courage, depth, discipline, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existence, Existentialism, individuality, Integrity, Isolation, law, lawfulness, lucidity, motion, necessity, nihilism, nonconformity, obligation, originality, persistence, philosophy, pilgrimage, Private Law, realism, Refusal, Resistance, resolve, responsibility, rigor, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80, Selfhood, selfrule, seriousness, severity, solitude, stoicism, survival, Walking.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 - Private Law He walks because the sentence is life-
no appeal, no parole, no applause.
Flesh drags heavy,
the horizon burned out long ago,
yet the stride refuses surrender. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79 – Why Live?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Asceticism, austerity, Autonomy, awareness, character, clarity, cognition, consciousness, discipline, Effort, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existence, Existentialism, Integrity, Isolation, lucidity, Meaninglessness, minimalism, motion, necessity, nihilism, obligation, persistence, philosophy, realism, Refusal, repetition, resilience, resolve, responsibility, restraint, rigor, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79, selfexamination, Selfhood, severity, silence, solitude, stoicism, structure, survival, Walking, Why Live, wisdom, work.

Ronie Dinosaur — Before the Walk: An Opening Statement

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79 - Why Live? Bring it yourself,
Cook it yourself,
Eat it yourself,
Then praise it yourself,
Wash up and go to sleep. Read more from here...

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