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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 112 – What Is Time?

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology Tagged: Absence, aging, awareness, consciousness, Continuity, cosmic indifference, distance, emotional gravity, emotional-truth, entropy, existence, existential reflection, Heartbreak, Human Cost, human finitude, identity, impermanence, inevitability, inner witness, inwardness, Isolation, longing, loss, love deferred, memory, metaphysics, missed timing, nostalgia, parallel lives, perception, persistence, personal-history, philosophical poetry, photon, physics metaphor, reality, regret, relativity, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 112, self-recognition, separation, silence, solitude, subjective time, temporality, time, unrealized futures, unrequited-love, waiting, What Is Time.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 112 - What Is Time? A change in status in someone’s heart.
Yesterday, I was everything.
Today, I cannot even greet you as an equal-
you, another man’s wife,
your children now the age we were Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 109 – The Anti-Thesis

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: ambiguity, Betrayal, bitterness, Brokenness, closure, college romance, coming-of-age, confrontation, devotion, ego, Emotional baggage, Emotional manipulation, Empty seats, Fear of commitment, gaslighting, Ghosting, growth, healing, Heartbreak, Hidden pain, identity, Intimacy., loneliness, Loss of innocence, masculinity, memory, Moving on, nostalgia, obsession, Perspective, poetry, power dynamics, reflection, regret, Reputation, resentment, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 109, Rumors, self-destruction, silence, Social status, stoicism, symbolism, The Anti-Thesis, The past, Toxic relationships, truth, unrequited-love, Unspoken words, vulnerability, yearning, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91 - The Unpermitted Path

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 109 – The Anti-Thesis It wasn’t that I failed to win you,
or that I lacked permission-
you had already written the letter yourself,
granting full access to raw lust,
to be taken without hesitation. Read more from here...

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Teenage Crush

Posted 5 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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A Round Red Ball

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: attention, awareness, childhood, curiosity, Delhi, desire, disappointment, emotion, expectation, growth, humiliation, Innocence, learning, market, memory, nostalgia, Observation, parents, play, pleading, realization, rejection, shame, tantrum.

Ronie Dinosaur — Before the Walk: An Opening Statement

Title - A Round Red Ball In Delhi city, Karol Bagh’s bustling roar,
back in eighty-eight, before I knew the score,
I was four-a tiny explorer, wide-eyed and small-
when a bright red ball caught my heart in its thrall.
It sparkled there on the shopkeeper’s shelf, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 62 – Humiliation

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, Alienation, becoming, comparison, Continuation, endurance, firstlove, grief, identity, invisence, loneliness, loss, memory, nostalgia, passageoftime, regret, rejection, resilience, selfreflection, silence, stagnation, time, witnessing, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 62 - Humiliation To counter humiliation
from a girl in school-
love at first sight-
I armed myself with pride and silence.
The next time I stood before a girl, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 20 – Fifteen Minutes Old

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR Tagged: Angry, begging, Bias, character, Clock, Comfort, discipline, Exit, Fifteen Minutes Old, Ghost, grief, hope, Irrationality, Lens, Lies, Mathematics, mirror, nostalgia, perseverance, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 20, Scared, solitude, Standing, Staying, suffering, weight.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 20 - Fifteen Minutes Old
How do I know what grief is?
I was born fifteen minutes ago.
I say it as a joke
so no one hears the scream underneath:
the grief is almost thirty, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 13 – The Bench That Outlived Me

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, adolescence, adulthood, Alienation, childhood, coming-of-age, dinosaur-metaphor, emotional-growth, emotional-pain, evolution, Existentialism, fading-youth, friendship, grief, healing, Heartbreak, identity, inner voice, internal-conflict, Introspection, life-journey, loneliness, longing, lost-love, melancholy, memory, metaphysical, mythic-symbol, nostalgia, personal-history, philosophy, photographs, poetic-fiction, quiet-strength, rebirth, recovery, reflection, regret, resilience, sadness, self-discovery, self-worth, silent-companion, solitude, survival, time, trauma, unrequited-love, unseen-life, vulnerability.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 13 – The Bench That Outlived Me I had to live life and know it at once.
The shepherd-god had centuries of silence for both.
I had none.
Time slid through my fingers
like water, sand, coins, people, years: Read more from here...

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