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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 100 – Something Else

Posted 5 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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Four Falls Philosophy

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: addiction-recovery, anti-romantic poetry, ascetic living, autobiographical philosophy, autobiographical verse, character formation, character over desire, confessional poetry, discipline over pleasure, emotional restraint, endurance literature, endurance mindset, existential poetry, existential realism, first love loss, grief poetry, hunger and restraint, inner strength, Isolation, lived-philosophy, loneliness, loss of mother, masculine-vulnerability, mental toughness, minimalist suffering, nihilism tempered by will, personal mythology, philosophical realism, physical discipline, quiet defiance, refusal of victimhood, rehabilitation journey, rejection and resolve, rejection without bitterness, resilience, self-authored life, self-discipline, self-made identity, sobriety journey, solitude as identity, stoic philosophy, suffering and growth, survival ethics, trauma narrative, truth-over-comfort, unrequited-love, walking alone, willpower.

Title - Four Falls Philosophy That girl-my love at first sight-
I watched her walk away that final day,
no fight, no plea, just silence in the light.
The first fall came when school was done:
no top college seat I’d won. Read more from here...

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Guy Next Door

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, bitterness, contemporary despair, cultural imagery, door, emotional detachment, emotional geometry, existential poetry, flat world metaphor, ganga symbolism, godlessness, Guy, hollow intimacy, identity erosion, inner constraint, intimacy failure, introspective literature, margosa metaphor, masculinity and vulnerability, modern loneliness, Next, personal mythology, philosophical verse, Psychological realism, ritual vs meaning, self-reckoning, spiritual irrelevance, unfulfilled desire.

Guy Next Door I was the guy next door-
simple, quiet, a little bright,
wanting to fall in love,
a girl to adore.
I went out for a test drive Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 84 – What Is Life

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: alignment, anti-nihilism, authenticity, Autonomy, becoming, character, consciousness, creative will, desire, discipline, endurance, ethical selfhood, existential clarity, existential courage, existential poetry, Existentialism, human condition, identity, individualism, inner law, inner life, Introspection, inward journey, lived-philosophy, meaning, meaning through action, metaphysical inquiry, modern stoicism, nonconformity, persistence, personal mythology, personal truth, philosophical prose, philosophical realism, philosophy-of-life, poetic philosophy, purpose, refusal-of-illusion, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 84, self-actualization, Self-determination, self-honesty, Self-Responsibility, Selfhood, solitude, solitude and strength, spiritual independence, truth seeking, What Is Life, will.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 84 - What Is Life Twenty years ago, obviously-
reproduction.
And that consciousness business.
But mainly: life should not end.
Its whole purpose- Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 1: The Roar

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Existential Rehabism, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: alcohol, ant, authentic voice, born, caged bird, carry, chapter, character, character arc, character building, cosmic metaphor, creative philosophy, creative writing, difference, emotional depth, emotional furnace, emotional grit, emotional solitude, emotional survival, emotional wilderness, existential roar, existential struggle, fools, God, hero archetype, human versus divine, humiliation, identity formation, Indian context, inner conflict, inner roar, inner strength, inner voice, insult, literary character, loneliness, loneliness narrative, modern myth, mythmaking, mythology, original spirit, persona, personal evolution, personal mythology, personal truth, philosophical poetry, poetic identity, poetic monologue, poetic narrative, poetic persona, psychological depth, raw expression, raw honesty, resilience, roar, Ronie Dinosaur, Sati, self-creation, self-realization, self-reflection, shame, Shiva, Shiva metaphor, silence, spiritual independence, spiritual rebellion, story, symbolic roar, tragic humor, truth vs society, unpaid, weight.

It’s my job to roar.
When Ronie Dinosaur roars,
even Godzilla looks like a toy lizard.
Godzilla’s roar is sound ripped from the throat-
loud, radioactive, cinematic.
Ronie’s roar comes from deeper, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 0 – Where Would Ronie be?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: appeal, applause, Arjuna, Arjuna reference, burden of existence, character study, colder, cool, cosmic indifference, dark poetry, death, death symbolism, distance, emotional isolation, emotional resilience, emotional weight, entire, existential crisis, existential defiance, existential poetry, experiment, footprint, grief, habit, hero archetype inversion, house, human struggle, identity crisis, Indian mythology, inner conflict, inner journey, inner strength, introspective poem, king, larger, life as a sentence, literary poem, loneliness, male loneliness, MaleLoneliness, masculine grief, masculinity, mental endurance, metaphysical poem, modern myth, mortality, mythic imagery, mythic realism, nihilism, personal mythology, philosophical poem, poetic monologue, poetic narrative, poetic philosophy, poetic storytelling, poetic symbolism, problem, psychological depth, psychological poem, resilience, Ronie, Ronie Dinosaur, rules, self-definition, self-reflection, Shiva, Shiva reference, silent endurance, slave, snake, spiritual emptiness, spiritual fire, stoic masculinity, stoicism, style, suffering, suffering narrative, surrender, survival, unbearable, walking symbolism, warrior spirit, worshipper, zeros.

Ronie Dinosaur walks alone-
not from necessity,
but from habit
and from style.
He moves down streets
where some girl might pause Read more from here...

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