masculinity – Page 3 – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

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 Did She Humiliate Me?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: animal-metaphor, anti-romance, biology, desire, Existentialism, Human nature, humiliation, hunger, Innocence, Intimacy., jungle-symbolism, loss, masculinity, modern-epic, mythic-poetry, philosophy, power, psychology, regret, restraint, self-knowledge, sexual-politics, tenderness, tragic-realism, unmet-love.

Title – Why Did She Humiliate Me? Why did she humiliate me so?
That heart-breaking woman laid me low.
To learn what happened, who he truly was,
he walked into the jungle, just because-
and lingered long in thought’s unyielding shade Read more from here...

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I Did Not Take

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, boundary, consequence, denial, desire, dignity, emotional discipline, Ethics, Integrity, loneliness, loss, masculinity, memory, moral-line, Refusal, regret-without-pity, restraint, self-respect, separation, silence, solitude, Take, time, unchosen, unreciprocated-love, youth.

Title - I Did Not Take She told herself it was no big deal-
to touch a friend with too much fire,
to pour her lust like cheap appeal.
I never urged her, never once.
I held my line. I stood my ground. 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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Job Description

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, Backbone, clarity, Description, discipline, earned-ground, equality, evolution, existential-work, hunger, Integrity, Job, masculinity, modern-man, moral-labor, post-romantic, refusal-to-beg, resilience, responsibility, restraint, scarcity, self-respect, silence, solitude, truth-telling, walking forward, witness.

Title - Job Description Some herd cattle.
Some teach scholars.
Some raise children.
Some bear witness to the cost
of standing up and speaking truth anyway. 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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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 78 – Back-to-Back Lightning

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology, Technology Tagged: Agency, Alienation, awakening, Back-to-Back, becoming, Body, character, confession, consent, Control, Defiance, desire, determinism, discipline, endurance, Existentialism, failure, gravity, humiliation, identity, journey, Laika, Lightning, masculinity, memory, myth, oath, obsession, orbit, philosophy, poetry, power, rejection, resolve, Ritual, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 78, Sacrifice, scar, shame, solitude, stoicism, survival, Threshold, trauma, truth, violence, void, Walking, will, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 78 - Back-to-Back Lightning Back-to-back idiocy-
two strikes that scorched the same sky.
The school one:
love at first sight in the morning,
rejected that very day, during recess. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 77 – Eligible

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acceptance, accountability, Agency, austerity, authorship, Autonomy, awareness, becoming, boundaries, Choice, clarity, consciousness, dignity, discipline, Eligible, embodiment, endurance, existence, honesty, identity, independence, individuation, Integrity, inwardness, Isolation, lucidity, masculinity, Materialism, Metacognition, nonconformity, perseverance, Position, presence, reality, Refusal, rejection, Resistance, resolve, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 77, Selfhood, selfknowledge, selfrule, silence, solitude, Sovereignty, stance, Transcendence, Value, worth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 77 - Eligible First there was grief-
then humiliation, shame, depression.
Then the mind began to question:
Why did this happen?
Why only with me? Read more from here...

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