Psychological realism – Page 3 – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

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 104 — Restraint

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: austere lyricism, character, Control, cult poetry, Delayed Gratification, desire withheld, devotion without possession, dignity, discipline, emotional minimalism, emotional-austerity, ethical desire, ethical eros, existential romance, Existentialism, grief addressed sideways, hunger, hunger-metaphor, imagination, inner law, Integrity, Interior Monologue, intimacy without touch, loneliness, longing, masculine restraint, masculinity, memory, Mental Mastery, modern asceticism, Moral High Ground, moral tension, noncommercial poetry, nonperformative love, Originality vs Copy, post-romantic writing, principled refusal, Psychological realism, psychological-poetry, quiet intensity, Refusal, refusal culture, relational philosophy, restraint, restraint as power, restraint ideology, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 104, self-awareness, self-denial, slow burn, South Asian Literature, tension, The Godown, The Zeigarnik Effect, thirst, unconsummated love, Unfinished Business, unmet desire, unsentimental-love.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 104 - Restraint A hungry stomach never forgets why I let her go.
An upright character remembers-down to the last detail-why I walked away.
My heart aches
not for what happened,
not for what might have been, Read more from here...

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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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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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Report

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-comfort, anti-narrative, Autonomy, clarity, consciousness, dark poetry, Detachment, existential courage, Existentialism, grief, human behavior, Introspection, mortality, non-attachment, Observation, personal philosophy, philosophy, Psychological realism, radical honesty, raw honesty, rebellion, resilience, self-consumption, self-destruction, survival.

Title - Report People who need comfort will bark.
People who want control will bite.
People who hide will hiss.
And Ronie Dinosaur keeps walking—
not because he found peace, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 86 – Permanently Done

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, Alienation, anti-narrative, anti-romanticism, authenticity, awareness, awareness practice, boredom, clarity-over-hope, consciousness, consciousness over comfort, Detachment, disillusionment, Done, emotional minimalism, emotional withdrawal, existential honesty, Existentialism, impermanence, inner exile, internal monologue, inward gaze, lived-philosophy, lucid despair, Meaninglessness, mental-clarity, modern life, modern solitude, nihilism, observational poetry, outsider perspective, Permanently, personal myth, philosophical prose, psychological fatigue, Psychological realism, quiet rebellion, Refusal, resignation, Resistance, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 86, self-awareness, self-contained identity, self-observation, social comparison, solitude, spiritual exhaustion, unfinished life, walking forward.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 86 - Permanently Done They’re working on that research.
Oh please.
Don’t be brave.
Don’t be broken.
I want no one. 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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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 83 – Hierarchy and The Human Condition

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Anti-Conformity, anti-sentimentality, Arrogance Label, Autonomy, becoming, character ethics, consciousness, discipline, Ego Misinterpretation, Existential Asceticism, Existential Integrity, Existentialism, Hierarchy, human condition, Human Cost, Indian Philosophy, individualism, Inner Alignment, inner authority, inner law, Integrity, Isolation, Love and Loss, mann, meaning, Modern Existential Thought, Moral Architecture, non-dualism, Ontological Hierarchy, Personal Ethics, Philosophy of Self, Philosophy Poetry, Psychological Burden, Psychological realism, Ramayana Philosophy, Respect vs Meaning, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 83, self-discipline, Self-Responsibility, self-sovereignty, Selfhood, Shaivism, solitude, stoicism, Survival Instinct, Symbolic Mythology, The Human Condition, True Will, Will and Desire.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 83 – Hierarchy and The Human Condition The heart reigns first-
the mann,
the true will within,
where desire is not mere hunger
but alignment. Read more from here...

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Unscripted Connection

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Alienation, anti-identity, anti-performance, anti-sentimentality, authenticity, Autonomy, character ethics, connection, cultural criticism, dignity, emotional honesty, ethical solitude, existential ethics, existential poetry, femininity critique, gender critique, human condition, human equality, individual conscience, inner freedom, inner steel, Integrity, inwardness, masculinity critique, modern stoicism, moral courage, moral philosophy, moral weight, nonconformity, philosophical poetry, post-identity thought, post-romanticism, power dynamics, Psychological realism, quiet defiance, raw-voice, Refusal, refusal of roles, Resistance, Selfhood, sincerity, social conditioning, social masks, social scripts, truth seeking, uncompromising voice, unlearning, Unscripted, unscripted self.

Title - Unscripted Connection Sweetheart-my softy, my doll-
there is a difference.
Show me the “woman”
in your heart,
and I turn away- Read more from here...

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Against All Odds

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, authenticity, Defiance, endurance, Existentialism, human will, identity, injustice, inner strength, Isolation, longing, meaning-making, nihilism-adjacent, perseverance, philosophical poetry, Psychological realism, quiet heroism, rebellion, resilience, Self-determination, solitude, stoicism, struggle, suffering, survival.

Title - Against All Odds Daredevils sing anthems of rehearsed risks-
hollow chests, borrowed courage echoing thin.
True strength arrives untaught:
the Himalayas, faced with no knowledge of the climb,
do-or-die on sheer, unforgiving stone. Read more from here...

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