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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 97 — Reflection: Misfired

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Artist vs Man, Branded Useless, College Memories, coming-of-age, Confessional, Consent Culture, desire, Disconnection, emotional intelligence, Emotional Void, Four Years of College, Fragmented Love, Heartbreak, Helipad Metaphor, High Character, Hourglass, Human Connection, identity, Integrity, Interior Monologue, Intimacy., justice, Literary Grit, Lust Train, Lust vs Love, Male Consent, male vulnerability, masculinity, Mirroring, Misfired, Misunderstood Men, Modern Dating, modern-poetry, Narrative Poetry, philosophical poetry, Psychological realism, Psychological Warfare, raw emotion, rejection, Resonance., respect, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-knowledge, Self-Reflexive, Sexual Ethics, The Artist’s Voice, The Long Game, trauma.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 97 — Reflection: Misfired I was afraid-
how do I cup her face in my hands
and whisper, Stay quiet. 
Let me admire what I have.
She pressed closer. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93 – What a Wonderful World

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, bleak clarity, brothel narrative, Capitalism, class consciousness, commodification, confessional poetry, contemporary poetry, death and illness, dignity, emotional deprivation, emotional-austerity, emotional-truth, ethical tension, Ethics, existential literature, first-person narrative, grief, honesty, Human Cost, human worth, Indian English poetry, intimacy without love, late modern poetry, loneliness, loss, masculinity, money and value, moral accounting, moral injury, nihilism resisted, personal philosophy, philosophical poetry, power dynamics, quiet rage, realism, realism-over-romance, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93, silence, social critique, social hypocrisy, solitude, solitude ethics, survivor voice, transactional intimacy, trauma writing, unsentimental writing, value collapse, vulnerability, Wonderful World.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93 - What a Wonderful World My mother died two and a half years ago.
My father just suffered a heart attack.
At thirty-seven, single, I felt utterly unable to cope.
When I headed to the brothel, I knew exactly where I was going.
I kept telling myself: They don't give love; they sell what you pay for-and that's all you'll get. Read more from here...

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The Birthday Cake

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, Agency, birthday, Birthday Cake, cake metaphor, Choice, confessional poetry, consent, contemporary voice, cultural specificity, desire and refusal, emotional discipline, ethical restraint, existential ethics, extended metaphor, fragility, guilt without blame, hunger, intimacy without possession, Intimacy., longing, loss, memory, minimalist ethics, modern lyric, naming as violence, narrative poem, non-consumption, philosophical poetry, quiet defiance, Reciprocity, recognition, recognition without ownership, refusal to explain, relational power, restraint, restraint over catharsis, self-possession, silence as agency, silence speaks, symbolic object, trust the reader, unresolved tension, unspoken language, vulnerability, withholding meaning.

Title - The Birthday Cake Part I - The Crime of Questioning Like a criminal wiping fingerprints from the scene,
if you are still asking yourself
was it right or wrong,
was it a mistake, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91 – The Unpermitted Path

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, agency under pressure, anti-teleology, authenticity, Autonomy, character formation, constraint, dignity, direction, ethical living, existential courage, existential ethics, existential narrative, Existentialism, first-person philosophy, human condition, identity, inner compass, inner discipline, inward clarity, inward journey, lived-truth, modern alienation, modern stoicism, moral seriousness, mythic voice, nonconformity, perseverance, philosophical poetry, poetic philosophy, purity without piety, Refusal, Resistance, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91, self as measure, self-authorship, self-knowledge, self-made values, self-reference, solitude, spiritual without religion, The Unpermitted Path, truth as action, unpermitted freedom, walking as proof, walking metaphor.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91 - The Unpermitted Path It calls me-soft, relentless, from the edge-
but I am not allowed to go.
Life never granted that release.
Now the verdict shifts:
I am allowed to go, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 90 – Unwelcomed

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, anti-sentimentality, archetypal-narrative, Autonomy, collective-myth, critique-of-society, Defiance, dissent, enlightenment-skepticism, epistemology, existential realism, existential-agency, existential-anger, Existentialism, extinction-symbolism, human condition, identity-construction, individualism, inner-ethics, intellectual-isolation, meaning-making, meaning-rejection, modern-nihilism, Moral integrity, moral-loneliness, nonconformity, outsider-identity, personal-verdict, philosophical poetry, philosophical-defiance, post-humanism, psychological depth, refusal-to-huddle, resilience, self-mythology, silence-as-power, social illusion, solitude, stoicism, symbolic roar, symbolic-identity, time-and-memory, truth-burden, truth-versus-comfort, voice-and-identity, walking forward, wisdom-critique, witness-refusal.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 90 – Unwelcomed The museum burned centuries ago.
No plaque bears the name.
Yet the skeleton reassembles itself
from the dust of a thousand refusals,
stepping into a dawn Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 89 – My Body is an Envelope

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, anti-sentimental, atheism, Body, controlled grief, darkness, deprivation, despair without rage, emotional emptiness, emotional-austerity, emptiness as form, entropy, Envelope, existential poetry, existential realism, free will, godlessness, human condition, identity erosion, inner exile, inner-void, Introspection, introspective literature, inward collapse, Isolation, literary realism, loneliness, loss of meaning, melancholy, metaphysical imagery, minimalism, modern existentialism, modern verse, nihilism, non-hopeful poetry, philosophical melancholy, philosophical poetry, post-romantic disillusionment, psychological depth, quiet suffering, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 89, sealed fate, sealed silence, silence, silence as metaphor, solitude, stoic despair, symbolic poetry, time and decay.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 89 – My Body is an Envelope They emptied my heart-
looted every last coin of light.
What remains to give?
How does one love
from a flask shattered beyond repair? Read more from here...

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Why Not Me?

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment trauma, Agency, attachment, Betrayal, boundaries, consent, desire vs respect, dignity, emotional abandonment, emotional labor, endurance, existential questioning, fairness, friendship breakup, Heartbreak, human condition, incompatibility, inner conflict, Isolation, loneliness, longing, loss, male vulnerability, melancholia, memory, misalignment, moral conflict, moral solitude, patience, philosophical poetry, reflective verse, refusal-to-beg, rejection, restraint, restraint over desire, self-respect, self-withdrawal, shame, silence, slow burn, solitude, time, unanswered questions, unrequited-love, why not me, withdrawal.

Title - Why Not Me? With the heart that called you friend,
I asked you to be my girl.
You said no-straight, no pretend.
What’s a guy supposed to do in this world?
Should I stand there, beg, and plead, Read more from here...

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Absolute Poverty

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absolute, absolute poverty, agency without faith, anti-romantic realism, anti-sentimentality, courage without hope, existential ethics, existential minimalism, human dignity, human resilience, identity and pride, inner resolve, inward courage, Isolation, moral clarity, ontological poverty, philosophical poetry, post-faith reflection, poverty, quiet defiance, rejection of charity, Selfhood, silence and strength, solitude, spiritual emptiness, truth-without-consolation, witness writing.

Title - Absolute Poverty Ronie is utterly poor-
I possess nothing, absolutely nothing.
You can at least ask;
something might come.
I lack even a bowl to beg with. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 87 – What is Peace?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-dogma, anti-romanticism, balance-over-justice, belief-systems, birth-without-consent, chaos-prevention, clarity-as-risk, clarity-over-comfort, cognitive-independence, consent, Detachment, determinism, existential ethics, existential-dilemma, existential-motion, Existentialism, fear-based-morality, freedom, guilt-culture, human condition, intellectual-honesty, internal-sequencing, irony, justice-vs-balance, lucidity, minimalism, moral-construction, moral-obligation, noise, non-conscious-universe, non-nihilism, non-performative-thought, Observation, peace, peace-questioned, philosophical poetry, philosophical-witness, power-structures, quiet-cruelty, religion-as-control, responsibility, restraint, silence, social-order, social-reality, solitude, surveillance-god, walking forward.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 87 - What is Peace? Philosophically, this sits at the fault line between existentialism and social reality.
Existentialism says: you are free, therefore responsible.
Society says: you are responsible, therefore guilty.
Neither asks whether you wanted to be here.
Consent is quietly skipped, and then morality begins its lecture. Read more from here...

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Fragments by Ronie Dinosaur

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: aftermath, Alienation, bleak-minimalism, consciousness, dissociation, embodied-exhaustion, emotional-rupture, existential-fatigue, Existentialism, fractured-self, fragmentation, identity, inner-distance, inner-void, Introspection, modern despair, nihilism, philosophical poetry, post-soul, psychological-landscape, quiet-collapse, reality-questioned, stoic-residue, unsentimental, witness-self.

Fragments — Ronie Dinosaur Someone said it’s better
to be laughed at a thousand times
than to lose your soul.
Mine disintegrated decades ago.
The mind went one way, Read more from here...

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