masculinity – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

The Walker in the Forest

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology Tagged: Absence, acceptance, Archetype, character, consciousness, Core, Courage, Detachment, Dissolution, emptiness, endurance, Enough, Existentialism, Footsteps, forest, godlessness, healing, hope, identity, ignition, Integrity, Karma, legend, Literature, masculinity, mirror, motion, myth, Neutrality, nothingness, permanence, philosophy, poetry, poverty, reality, Residue, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur, Self-Reliance, silence, solitude, spine, stoicism, structure, tenderness, transformation, truth, Walking, weight, wisdom.

The Walker in the Forest Part I - I Did Not Have God A man can be neglected
before he understands
he has been insulted.
A man pushed far enough into helplessness Read more from here...

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Chapter 37 – Life Taught Me Restraint

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Achievement, Agency, agency-withholding, articulation, attachment, avoidance, boundaries, cognitive dissonance, communication, confession, consent, consequence, desire, emotional labor, Ethics, Existentialism, failure modes, honesty, identity, Intimacy., Isolation, learning, loneliness, loss, masculinity, Mastery, memory, moral discipline, optimization, overfitting, permission, phenomenology, power dynamics, procedural grief, Reciprocity, recognition, regret, repression, restraint, self-accountability, self-authorship, self-erasure, silence, social norms, speech acts, time, translation, unmet-need, unspoken, vulnerability.

Chapter 37 - Life Taught Me Restraint Life Taught Me Restraint - Part I Restraint became my native tongue;
desire learned to speak only in silence.
I hid the wanting so well
even I forgot its shape. Read more from here...

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Discipline

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Autonomy, balance, character, clarity, Continuity, determination, discipline, endurance, Ethics, Existentialism, force, gravity, grit, identity, individuality, inner strength, Introspection, literary manifesto, Manifesto, masculinity, mental toughness, minimalism, modern-poetry, movement, philosophy, prose poetry, psychological discipline, realism, Refusal, refusal to bow, resilience, Resistance, resolve, responsibility, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-command, self-definition, Self-mastery, solitude, stoicism, struggle, Walking, weight, will.

Discipline This is my entire job profile-poor thing.
Alone, I probed the wound: what happened, why-
tears soaked my own shoulder.
Yet I scorned the sniffle as childish
for a man forged in character. Read more from here...

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Sorcery

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, ambiguity, autobiographical fiction, body language, boundaries, character, confession, consent, desire, dignity, discipline, disillusionment, emotional labor, first-order truth, Heartbreak, Intimacy., Kaliyug myth, longing, loss, masculinity, modern alienation, Modernity, moral economy, mythic voice, peacock metaphor, power dynamics, Pride, Psychological realism, Purity, Refusal, rejection, restraint, restraint ethics, romantic idealism, Ronie Dinosaur, self-respect, Selfhood, solitude, Sorcery, stoicism, swan metaphor, symbolism, transformation, unrequited-love, vulnerability, will.

Sorcery I came back having lost-so who has ever come back having won?
I lived by my own will; this is not called losing.
I became Ronie to the whole world-from five-year-old children to everyone at the table, at the door, or on the floor.
In return for the love I gave the boy within me, I could not gather love from a girl for myself.
The generosity of my spirit, my character in action, my golden intent-and yet my desire proved fruitless. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123 – Collapsed Twice

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, addiction-context, adulthood, Agency, autobiographical, Autonomy, character, cold-clarity, collapse, collapse-narrative, Collapsed Twice, consequence, dignity, Ethics, existential, family-expectation, grief, human condition, identity, Introspection, Isolation, judgment, literary-poetry, lived-experience, masculinity, mental health, minimalism, money-and-loneliness, moral-neutrality, non-redemptive, perception, philosophy, pressure, psychological, realism, recovery, recovery-path, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123, Selfhood, silence, social-pressure, stoicism, survival, testimony, trauma, truth-telling, Value.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123 – Collapsed Twice I collapsed twice in my life.
The first time was at twenty-one.
Family pressed in:
“Why aren’t you studying?
What are you even doing there? Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 121 – 103 Degrees Low

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: burning calm, controlled fury, dark romance, dignity, emotional control, emotional honesty, emotional precision, emotional survival, emotional temperature, endurance, Heartbreak, hidden turmoil, inner fire, inner flame, inner war, internal-conflict, iron will, Isolation, lyrical storytelling, masculinity, mental battle, personal myth, poetic intensity, poetic metaphor, poetic noir, Pride, private hell, psychological heat, quiet rage, rejection, rejection pain, rejection trauma, resilience, restraint, self-discipline, self-respect, silent suffering, solitude, solitude path, stoicism, strength, suppressed anger, unresolved feelings, vulnerability, walking away.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 121 - 103 Degrees Low Verse 1 Feeling doesn’t make it real-
only knowing does.
I burned inside; you never felt
the fire I carried just because. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 119 – Five Monasteries

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, anti-hero critique, Asceticism, authenticity, awareness without agency, body discipline, Buddha comparison, burnout culture, cultural pressure, discipline, endurance, endurance without reward, existential poetry, existential witness, extreme-discipline, field report style, gym solitude, Indian myth reinterpreted, inner exile, inward journey, isolation narrative, lighthouse metaphor, lived time, masculinity, mental-resilience, modern ascetic, modern monastery, Monasteries, non-linear life, nonconformity, performance identity, philosophical poetry, post-romantic realism, Psychological realism, recovery myth, refusal of hope, rehabilitation, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 119, self-accounting, self-observation, Shiva symbolism, silence, sobriety journey, social misfit, solitude, spiritual skepticism, unregistered existence, unsentimental truth, work asceticism.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 119 - Five Monasteries I am the lighthouse that doesn’t care
if ships pass blind through salted air-
as long as the filament stays fair,
burning on, beyond repair.
The trouble has always been this plight: Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 118 – Neither Nor

Posted 5 months ago under Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: 758 Days, accuracy, Archetypes, Asceticism, Athlete Philosopher, Beyond the Muse, blame, Delhi Poets, discipline, emotional intelligence, Field Report, Five Monasteries, High Character, Integrity, Intellectual Sovereignty, Inverted Casanova, Isolation, Male Experience, masculinity, Mastery, Mental Strength, modern philosophy, Neither, Neither Nor, Nor, obligation, On-Off Switch, Performance Disorder, philosophy, poetry, Post-Illusion, Radical Acceptance, recovery, rehab, Relationship Standards, resilience, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 118, Self-Belief, Self-Forgiveness, Shiva, Solo Walker, Sovereign Partnership, Spiritual Warfare, stoicism, survival, The Abyss, The Lighthouse, The Void, Truth-Teller, Unsold, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 118 – Neither Nor Neither submission nor aggression.
A woman who neither kneels nor strikes.
For the philosopher-athlete forged in one scarred body,
a companion who meets affection and responsibility in equal measure-
no reflex to drag him under, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 – Canteen, First Year

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absolute Zero, Betrayal, burden, Canteen, character, Childhood Scars, College Life, Courage, desire, devotion, discipline, emotional intelligence, Empty Stadium, Exile, Existentialism, fate, First Year, first-love, first-order truth, Ghosting, Gnosticism, Heartbreak, Inner Artist, Integrity, intent, loneliness, masculinity, memory, Penance, philosophy, Reconciliation, recovery, Redemption, rehab, resilience, respect, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117, self-punishment, self-worth, Silent Gaze, Social Contract, solitude, Sovereignty, stoicism, substance abuse, survival, The Ledger, The Void, The Walk, trauma, truth, vulnerability.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 - Canteen, First Year So I stood in the canteen,
first-year,
the angriest young man on campus.
Armor on the outside,
an artist locked within. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 113 – The Weight of My Efforts

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Autonomy, character, constancy, dharma, dignity, discipline, Efforts, emotional-austerity, endurance, ethical-stance, existential weight, hunger, identity, Indian Philosophy, inner conflict, Integrity, inward journey, loneliness, masculinity, moral conviction, moral-cost, mythic symbolism, nonconformity, permanence, personal mythology, philosophy, power dynamics, principles, Ram, Ravana, Refusal, refusal to bargain, rejection, resolve, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 113, Sacrifice, self-examination, Self-mastery, self-respect, Selfhood, silence, solitude, spiritual endurance, stoicism, truth, weight, will, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 113 - The Weight of My Efforts At first glance, it might seem
I am a hungry man, his meal denied him-
unwise, easily fooled.
But read again, hear my words deeper:
I was right, with pure intent and character, Read more from here...

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