persistence – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

Go Fuck Yourself

Posted 6 days ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, action, adaptation, awareness, character, consciousness, contemporarypoetry, DarkPoetry, desire, discipline, emotionalpain, Existentialism, ExistentialLiterature, existentialpoetry, ExistentialThought, ExistentialWriting, flaw, freeverse, HumanCondition, hunger, identity, individualism, innercore, intent, Introspection, introspectivewriting, lifephilosophy, loneliness, meaning, metaphysics, modernpoetry, nihilism, ontology, persistence, personalphilosophy, PhilosophicalPoetry, philosophy, poetry, psychology, reality, resilience, RonieDinosaur, selfknowledge, selfreflection, solitude, suffering, survival, thirst, truth, Virtue.

Go Fuck Yourself I will consume it all—
man and woman, God and beast,
joy and sorrow, famine and feast.
Darkness and light,
humiliation and pride, Read more from here...

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Palimpsest Poem

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, annotated poem, archival poetry, attachment, autobiographical poetry, confessional poetry, crossed-out text, distance and desire, documentary lyric, emotional asymmetry, emotional residue, endurance, evidence-based poetry, existential longing, first-order truth, grief, internal collapse, intimacy and distance, irreversible moment, lived reality, loneliness, longing without hope, love as demand, love without reciprocity, marginalia, memory and loss, Negation, obsession, Palimpsest, persistence, poem, private history, proof of love, psychological record, Refusal, refusal to romanticize, rejection, restraint, silence, solitude, storm metaphor, survival, temporal layering, truth over beauty, unrequited-love, vulnerability, waiting.

Palimpsest Poem If nothing saves you,
what do you still do?
What does one do?
What do you do?
And then what do I do? Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 135 – What Is Ronie Dinosaur Who’s Still Walking

Posted 5 months ago under Artificial Intelligence, DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-automation, anti-credentialism, authenticity, authorship, becoming, character, creator-mindset, depth-over-status, dignity, endurance, existential walk, Existentialism, human core, human residue, identity, inner law, lived-truth, loneliness, long-walk, meaning-making, modern-masculinity, mythic symbolism, narrative-identity, nonconformity, original voice, pain-transformed, persistence, philosophical poetry, post-romance, Refusal, refusal-to-bend, rejection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 135, scars, self-sovereignty, self-witness, Selfhood, silence, solitude, Still Walking, survival, testimony, time-density, truth-over-reward, uncommodifiable, unreplicable, Walking, What Is Ronie Dinosaur.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 135 – What Is Ronie Dinosaur Who’s Still Walking [Verse 1] You followed the map they drew on the wall,
took every turn the syllabus told.
I walked through fire no textbook recalls,
burned till the ashes turned into gold. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 115 – Stubborn

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: absence of witnesses, anti-romanticism, anti-sentimental poetry, austerity, dignity without reward, disciplined suffering, endurance ethic, ethical clarity, ethical endurance, existence without applause, existential cadence, existential labor, existential poetry, existential realism, existential solitude, identity through action, inner contract, inner silence, inward resistance, inward sovereignty, moral discipline, moral posture, moral stubbornness, persistence, persistence as meaning, persistence over meaning, philosophical endurance, philosophical minimalism, philosophical restraint, procedural existence, procedural faith, refusal of spectacle, refusal to kneel, resilience, resilience without consolation, restraint in language, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 115, self-contained identity, self-definition, silence, silent defiance, solitude, stoicism, Stubborn, stubbornness, survival ethic, survival without hope, walking as metaphor, walking forward.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 115 - Stubborn When courage, bravery, and luck surrender,
and even character offers no choice,
my spirit lifts the heart,
teaching it to feel alive-even in the stubborn dark.
I cling to the act of walking, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 114 — This Is My Curse

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, anti-sentimental poetry, curse, dignity without reward, emotional-starvation, endurance, endurance over hope, ethical persistence, existential dignity, existential labor, existential poetry, existential realism, human condition, identity and meaning, intellectual suffering, internal exile, inward discipline, inward exile, inward violence, loneliness, memory and failure, modern existentialism, moral solitude, moral struggle, persistence, personal myth, philosophical melancholy, philosophical poem, philosophical voice, post-romantic realism, poverty of affection, refusal to kneel, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 114, self-accounting, self-awareness, self-examination, self-tyranny, silence, solitude, spiritual austerity, stoicism, suffering without spectacle, survival ethic, survival without consolation, truth seeking, unrequited-love, walking as metaphor, witness-less life.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 114 — This Is My Curse Those bitter moments-
injustice, inequality, cruelty aimed straight at my heart-
I want to forget them.
But I must remember them,
again and again, Read more from here...

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Punishment

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, academic exile, Alienation, anger identity, Asceticism, austerity, burnout, chair motif, class pressure, depression, dignity hunger, discipline as violence, emotional poverty, emotional repression, endurance, existential reckoning, failure, grief, heat and cold imagery, identity fracture, Indian context, internal exile, intimacy avoidance, ledger metaphor, loss, love and flight, masculine shame, masculine-vulnerability, memory loops, moral accounting, nihilism, non-linear narrative, persistence, Psychological realism, rejection, restraint, self-punishment, self-sabotage, solitude, substance abuse, survival ethics, time distortion, trauma repetition, unfinished reckoning, unrealized potential, unrequited-love, witnessless suffering, working-class survival.

I returned home without a degree.
Detained for attendance shortages—the rules were never clearly explained.
I lost my best friend to another lecture hall,
and my obligation to become an engineer to another timeline.
Earlier still, I lost my worth as the studious boy
when a schoolgirl rejected me for someone “different.” Read more from here...

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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 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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Defeat’s Quiet Victory

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-hero, anti-victory, Defeat, defiance-without-hope, dignity, endurance, ethical-stance, existential poetry, inner-resistance, Integrity, lived-philosophy, loss-and-continuance, masculine-vulnerability, moral-refusal, persistence, poverty-with-dignity, quiet, quiet defiance, quiet rebellion, refusal-to-conform, resilience, scars, silence, stoicism, survival, victory, walking forward, wounded-strength.

Defeat’s Quiet Victory When so many wounds have been inflicted deep,
how does the wounded still claim victory?
They won the battles, loud and clear,
while he lost the war, year after year.
Yet Ronie is a hard-luck man with style- Read more from here...

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Obsession

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Anxiety, Autonomy, awareness, confinement, Control, counting, discipline, Existentialism, habit, identity, inner-motion, Isolation, mental-resilience, minimalism, obsession, persistence, psychological-poetry, recovery, Resistance, Ritual, Selfhood, solitude, survival, time.

Title - Obsession When anxiety waits,
people glance at the clock,
then again,
then again-
until it hardens into habit, Read more from here...

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