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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 114 — This Is My Curse

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, anti-sentimental poetry, curse, dignity without reward, emotional-starvation, endurance, endurance over hope, ethical persistence, existential dignity, existential labor, existential poetry, existential realism, human condition, identity and meaning, intellectual suffering, internal exile, inward discipline, inward exile, inward violence, loneliness, memory and failure, modern existentialism, moral solitude, moral struggle, persistence, personal myth, philosophical melancholy, philosophical poem, philosophical voice, post-romantic realism, poverty of affection, refusal to kneel, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 114, self-accounting, self-awareness, self-examination, self-tyranny, silence, solitude, spiritual austerity, stoicism, suffering without spectacle, survival ethic, survival without consolation, truth seeking, unrequited-love, walking as metaphor, witness-less life.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 114 — This Is My Curse Those bitter moments-
injustice, inequality, cruelty aimed straight at my heart-
I want to forget them.
But I must remember them,
again and again, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 101 – Life’s High

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: addiction metaphor, addiction to life, authenticity, clarity through suffering, confession without apology, delayed fulfillment, desire vs consumption, dignity in hunger, disciplined longing, emotional hunger, emotional precision, empty abundance, endurance, existential choice, existential poetry, high and crash, hunger of the heart, hunger-metaphor, integrity over abundance, intensity ethic, internal exile, life as intoxication, Life’s High, life’s wager, lived-experience, loneliness with agency, masculine solitude, menu illusion, moral appetite, one-woman vow, patience as resistance, philosophical romance, poetic minimalism, refusal of consolation, refusal of substitutes, rehab clarity, rejection of excess, restraint, romantic absolutism, romantic austerity, romantic realism, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 101, scarcity of meaning, selective desire, self-awareness, self-mythology, solitude by choice, starvation as stance, uncompromising desire, unfulfilled promise.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 101 - Life’s High Life, too, is an addiction, my friend-
when it rises,
don’t ask what state it leaves you in.
When it crashes,
people lie scattered on the streets, sunk in depression. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 98 — Nothing

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, bitterness refined, desire vs fulfillment, disenchanted love, emotional neglect, emotional-austerity, emotional-starvation, emptiness, existential hunger, existential poetry, finality, hunger of the soul, hunger-metaphor, inner exile, internal exile, intimacy hunger, lived-experience, loneliness, longing, love as sustenance, masculine-vulnerability, modern confessional, moral injury, moral solitude, nihilistic clarity, nothing, nothingness, outsider perspective, poetic despair, poetic minimalism, poetic truth, post-romantic realism, psychological scars, quiet rage, refusal of compromise, refusal of substitutes, rehab narrative, resignation, restraint, romantic disillusionment, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 98, scarcity mindset, self-awareness, slow self-destruction, social alienation, stoic despair, survivor’s guilt, unmet promises, unrequited-love, wounded integrity.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 98 — Nothing My heart was clean, yet I was blamed-
and I remained hungry.
Everyone drank deep, ate full,
and now sleeps well,
satisfied in the warm hush of having enough. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 89 – My Body is an Envelope

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, anti-sentimental, atheism, Body, controlled grief, darkness, deprivation, despair without rage, emotional emptiness, emotional-austerity, emptiness as form, entropy, Envelope, existential poetry, existential realism, free will, godlessness, human condition, identity erosion, inner exile, inner-void, Introspection, introspective literature, inward collapse, Isolation, literary realism, loneliness, loss of meaning, melancholy, metaphysical imagery, minimalism, modern existentialism, modern verse, nihilism, non-hopeful poetry, philosophical melancholy, philosophical poetry, post-romantic disillusionment, psychological depth, quiet suffering, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 89, sealed fate, sealed silence, silence, silence as metaphor, solitude, stoic despair, symbolic poetry, time and decay.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 89 – My Body is an Envelope They emptied my heart-
looted every last coin of light.
What remains to give?
How does one love
from a flask shattered beyond repair? Read more from here...

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Four Falls Philosophy

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: addiction-recovery, anti-romantic poetry, ascetic living, autobiographical philosophy, autobiographical verse, character formation, character over desire, confessional poetry, discipline over pleasure, emotional restraint, endurance literature, endurance mindset, existential poetry, existential realism, first love loss, grief poetry, hunger and restraint, inner strength, Isolation, lived-philosophy, loneliness, loss of mother, masculine-vulnerability, mental toughness, minimalist suffering, nihilism tempered by will, personal mythology, philosophical realism, physical discipline, quiet defiance, refusal of victimhood, rehabilitation journey, rejection and resolve, rejection without bitterness, resilience, self-authored life, self-discipline, self-made identity, sobriety journey, solitude as identity, stoic philosophy, suffering and growth, survival ethics, trauma narrative, truth-over-comfort, unrequited-love, walking alone, willpower.

Title - Four Falls Philosophy That girl-my love at first sight-
I watched her walk away that final day,
no fight, no plea, just silence in the light.
The first fall came when school was done:
no top college seat I’d won. Read more from here...

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Guy Next Door

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, bitterness, contemporary despair, cultural imagery, door, emotional detachment, emotional geometry, existential poetry, flat world metaphor, ganga symbolism, godlessness, Guy, hollow intimacy, identity erosion, inner constraint, intimacy failure, introspective literature, margosa metaphor, masculinity and vulnerability, modern loneliness, Next, personal mythology, philosophical verse, Psychological realism, ritual vs meaning, self-reckoning, spiritual irrelevance, unfulfilled desire.

Guy Next Door I was the guy next door-
simple, quiet, a little bright,
wanting to fall in love,
a girl to adore.
I went out for a test drive 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 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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