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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 110 – Die Hungry Rather Than Kneel

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: addiction, Betrayal, bitterness, Bodybuilding, Boxer, Caretaking, Choice, Corona, Die Hungry, dignity, emotional-starvation, Engineering dropout, Father-son relationship, Financial success, Forging strength, grief, Hard work, Heart attack, honor, identity, Integrity, Iron character, Isolation, kneel, Lockdown, loneliness, longing, masculinity, Memories, Millionaire, Mother’s death, Names, No compromise, Nursing, Online dating, persistence, Poverty of soul, Pride, Public humiliation, purpose, raw, recovery, Redemption, rehab, rejection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 110, Rust, Sacrifice, Scams, School rejection, Self-made, self-respect, sobriety, Social status, solitude, stoicism, success, survival, The past, The price of love, Thirty-seven, trauma, truth, Unfiltered, unrequited-love, walking alone, wealth, work-ethic.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 110 - Die Hungry Rather Than Kneel I was starving for affection-
simple human touch,
not just flesh-
when I considered paying a woman for sex.
It was the morning after my father’s heart attack, Read more from here...

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The Ronie Dinosaur Manifesto: I See You

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Achievement, ambition, being, Belonging, Brutal, character, connection, discipline, disillusionment, emptiness, endurance, Existentialism, failure, grief, Heartbreak, Honest, hope, human, Human nature, I See You, identity, Integrity, Isolation, journey, life, loneliness, longing, loss, manhood, Manifesto, Maturity, memory, pain, philosophy, raw, reality, rebirth, recovery, reflection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur, searching, shadow, silence, sobriety, struggle, survival, The Ronie Dinosaur, Tragedy, truth, void, Walking, witness.

The Ronie Dinosaur Manifesto: I See You It has been a monotonously vast and monstrously cruel life.
Age is a shallow ruler; it cannot gauge the true depth of a soul, nor the savage amplitude of its emotional tides. I have lived at the summit of the Himalayas and in the crushing black of the Mariana Trench.
Life itself was my tutor, teaching me the brutal price of being in the wrong place at the wrong moment. I learned the cold gulf between power, money, and status-and the fragility of innocence. I learned that golden intent can still yield only lead. Character does not guarantee reward. And my love-a clean vessel-poured itself out and received nothing in return.
To hell with it all. I got nothing back.
She took mine and never returned it. 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 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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The Birthday Cake

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, Agency, birthday, Birthday Cake, cake metaphor, Choice, confessional poetry, consent, contemporary voice, cultural specificity, desire and refusal, emotional discipline, ethical restraint, existential ethics, extended metaphor, fragility, guilt without blame, hunger, intimacy without possession, Intimacy., longing, loss, memory, minimalist ethics, modern lyric, naming as violence, narrative poem, non-consumption, philosophical poetry, quiet defiance, Reciprocity, recognition, recognition without ownership, refusal to explain, relational power, restraint, restraint over catharsis, self-possession, silence as agency, silence speaks, symbolic object, trust the reader, unresolved tension, unspoken language, vulnerability, withholding meaning.

Title - The Birthday Cake Part I - The Crime of Questioning Like a criminal wiping fingerprints from the scene,
if you are still asking yourself
was it right or wrong,
was it a mistake, Read more from here...

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Teenage Crush

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acceptance, adolescent-psychology, awkwardness, bittersweet, class-dynamics, coming-of-age, confusion, desire, emotional clarity, emotional honesty, emotional-literacy, everyday-moments, first-love, grounded-voice, human-fallibility, humiliation-without-drama, identity formation, Innocence, irony, lived-experience, longing, lost-time, masculinity, memory-as-wound, memory-fragments, nostalgia, observational poetry, past-self, personal-history, quiet-pain, realism, realism-over-romance, reflection, rejection, restraint, school-life, self-awareness, shyness, sincerity, social-pressure, teenage-memory, tenderness, understated-tragedy, unrequited-love, unsentimental-love, vulnerability, youthful-ego.

Title - Teenage Crush Today it returned again-
a heavy scoop from those years,
my first amateur crush.
Love at first sight,
third day of school. Read more from here...

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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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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85 – The Snakes Are Awake

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, aesthetic rigor, AI, Alienation, artificial intelligence, Chapter 85, cognitive dissonance, confession, contemporary poetry, cultural-critique, Detachment, digital judgment, emotional honesty, emotional intensity, erotic economy, Existentialism, human condition, human desire, hyper-awareness, hyperrealism, Introspection, jungle metaphor, literary realism, loneliness, longing, male perspective, masculinity, mirror, misogyny, modern despair, mortality, narrative poem, nihilism, philosophical poetry, poverty, Psychological realism, raw truth, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85, self-reflection, Selfhood, shame, snakes, social alienation, social critique, social hierarchy, societal expectation, suffering, symbolic imagery, The Snakes Are Awake, transactional relationships, urban isolation, vulnerability, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85 - The Snakes Are Awake Awake-
snakes awake.
Job theirs:
coiled in jungle dark,
hidden behind girl-ears, Read more from here...

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Against All Odds

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, authenticity, Defiance, endurance, Existentialism, human will, identity, injustice, inner strength, Isolation, longing, meaning-making, nihilism-adjacent, perseverance, philosophical poetry, Psychological realism, quiet heroism, rebellion, resilience, Self-determination, solitude, stoicism, struggle, suffering, survival.

Title - Against All Odds Daredevils sing anthems of rehearsed risks-
hollow chests, borrowed courage echoing thin.
True strength arrives untaught:
the Himalayas, faced with no knowledge of the climb,
do-or-die on sheer, unforgiving stone. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 65 – Mixed Martial Arts

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: awareness, Betrayal, desire, emotional depth, emotional honesty, friendship, Heartbreak, Human nature, Introspection, life lessons, loneliness, longing, love, Martial Arts, memory, metaphors, Mixed, Mixed Martial Arts, morality, Observation, personal growth, philosophy, Psychological insight, raw emotion, rejection, relationships, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 65, self-reflection, societal critique.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 65 - Mixed Martial Arts Section I – Awareness Things change on the screen
before I even realize it.
I feel the present fully-
until memory intrudes. Read more from here...

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