masculine restraint – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

Anyways

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: awareness, body and mind, character in action, Choice, Courage, deliberate choice, divine vs human, emotional labor, endurance, ethical action, existential courage, existential reflection, existential terror, female ambiguity, godlike endurance, grief, Heartbreak, heartbreak resilience, human condition, human fragility, human struggle, Introspection, introspective epic, introspective prose, longing, Love and Loss, masculine restraint, meditative poetry, moral accounting, moral courage, moral responsibility, mortality, mythic metaphor, peacock metaphor, personal narrative, philosophical poetry, Psychological realism, reflective poetry, relational ethics, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-discipline, Self-mastery, stoicism, substance abuse, suffering, swan metaphor, temporal awareness, unrequited-love, walking anyway.

Anyways A god endured
thousands of years in exile,
drowned in grief-yet, sweetheart,
he feared neither death
nor darkness Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 128 – Seventeen Years to a Screen

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-romance, asymmetrical affection, character over desire, chronology of loss, confessional poetry, crater metaphor, cult book potential, delayed adulthood, digital alienation, dignity under neglect, economic precarity, emotional-starvation, ethical restraint, existential literature, existential witness, family obligation, father’s death, grief narrative, human cost of restraint, Indian literary voice, invisible men, isolation without ideology, masculine restraint, memory as burden, modern masculinity crisis, modern solitude, non-redemptive ending, pain without spectacle, philosophical prose, post-romantic disillusionment, Psychological realism, quiet suffering, refusal of victimhood, refusal-to-beg, rejection trauma, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 128, screen, screen-mediated life, Seventeen Years, silence as resistance, stoic endurance, survival without hope, time and loss, time as violence, truth-without-consolation, unacknowledged labor, unchosen loneliness, underground literature, unpaid devotion, walking without destination, working-class sacrifice.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 128 - Seventeen Years to a Screen From 2003-Frooti,
who swore she was only a friend-
to 2020-Noorie,
where money changed hands-
I no longer know Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 127 – What Is Love?

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Alienation, asymmetry, boundaries, chosen deprivation, consent, desire, dignity, dominance, emotional ethics, emotional mismatch, Ethics, gun metaphor, hunger-metaphor, identity, inner conflict, inner law, Integrity, Intimacy., invisible rupture, longing, love, masculine restraint, misunderstanding, modern romance, moral injury, morality, non-consummation, philosophy, power, power dynamics, psychology, quiet violence, Refusal, rejection, restraint, restraint versus appetite, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 127, self-control, silence, silence as violence, starvation, submission, surrender, trauma, unmet desire, unrecognized virtue, vulnerability, What Is Love.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 127 - What Is Love? A seat in the university lecture hall
always saved for me-
her Ronie, the only one allowed to sit.
She would wait in the room,
never calling, never texting, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 104 — Restraint

Posted 2 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 100 – Something Else

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: absence-as-presence, academic exile, autobiographical fiction, black hole metaphor, chaptered life, commitment fracture, delayed destiny, dignity in loss, emotional economy, emotional scarcity, emotional-austerity, existential prose, fate vs choice, institutional failure, internal exile, irreversible moments, lived regret, loneliness without complaint, lost-love, love without possession, masculine restraint, memory loop, memory persistence, missed alignment, narrative compression, nostalgia without hope, obedience vs desire, parallel lives, personal mythology, philosophical romance, poverty of circumstance, quantum imagery, realism over fantasy, refusal of consolation, restrained despair, romantic minimalism, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 100, seat metaphor, silent longing, small-town aspiration, social constraint, Something Else, stoic grief, time collapse, timeline rupture, unchosen endings, unfulfilled romance.

Ronie Dinosaur - Chapter 100: Something Else Just a thought, for the sake of it-
maybe one day we meet again.
You borrow my phone to call your father,
tell him you’re safe,
say it’s just a friend’s number Read more from here...

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