resilience – Page 5 – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 90 – Unwelcomed

Posted 6 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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Four Falls Philosophy

Posted 6 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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Quantum

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, Betrayal, character, Choice, Coherence, consciousness, contemporary poetry, ethical critique, ethical endurance, existential, first-order truth, honesty, Human nature, Introspection, life lessons, life philosophy, lived-experience, metaphoric poetry, modern society, moral philosophy, observational poetry, opportunism, performative behavior, personal integrity, personal sovereignty, philosophy, power dynamics, resilience, self-accountability, self-reflection, societal critique.

Title – Quantum The world flaunts trophies bright-
achievements, gold, titles won in fight
by climbing on backs, stepping over the fallen-
and calls it greatness, loud and swollen.
It is not. 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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Nuclear Will

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-romanticism, Control, dark spoken word, Defiance, determination, discipline, endurance, existential poetry, human will, industrial tone, inner fire, intensity, lone wolf, merit over status, minimalism, nihilism, Nuclear, psychological depth, resilience, restrained rage, Self-mastery, silence, solitude, stoic will, truth, unbowed spirit, will.

Title - Nuclear Will YOUTUBE VIDEO Food heat, spice heat,
youth’s wild blood-
brain-fire fleeting,
all noise, all flood. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 146 – Ronie Dinosaur’s Song – Spine of Barren Soil

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Existential Rehabism, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, Backbone, discipline, endurance, equality, existential-strength, honesty, hunger, Integrity, labor, masculinity, motion, relational-giving, relational-insight, relational-maturity, resilience, responsibility, Sacrifice, scarcity, Self-mastery, self-respect, solitude, truth, vigilance, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur’s Song - Spine of Barren Soil Spoken Interlude (Insight)
(Music drops to a sparse beat. Voice close, raw.)
She never says “don’t go” out loud-
she calls you close, then holds you without a word.
A man doesn’t summon. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 88 – Responsibility

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, authority, Backbone, care-under-cost, depth, endurance, eternal-labor, hierarchy-of-life, Integrity, labor, masculinity, motion, parent, philosophy, real-work, resilience, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 88, Sacrifice, shepherd, solitude, survival, tangible-life, teacher, unsentimental, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 88 – Responsibility Responsibility: parent → teacher → shepherd.
Depth of life: shepherd → teacher → parent.
The shepherd owns the widest sky of silence,
walks miles before sunrise,
bathes in ice rivers, Read more from here...

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Job Description

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, Backbone, clarity, Description, discipline, earned-ground, equality, evolution, existential-work, hunger, Integrity, Job, masculinity, modern-man, moral-labor, post-romantic, refusal-to-beg, resilience, responsibility, restraint, scarcity, self-respect, silence, solitude, truth-telling, walking forward, witness.

Title - Job Description Some herd cattle.
Some teach scholars.
Some raise children.
Some bear witness to the cost
of standing up and speaking truth anyway. 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 79 – Why Live?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Asceticism, austerity, Autonomy, awareness, character, clarity, cognition, consciousness, discipline, Effort, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existence, Existentialism, Integrity, Isolation, lucidity, Meaninglessness, minimalism, motion, necessity, nihilism, obligation, persistence, philosophy, realism, Refusal, repetition, resilience, resolve, responsibility, restraint, rigor, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79, selfexamination, Selfhood, severity, silence, solitude, stoicism, structure, survival, Walking, Why Live, wisdom, work.

Ronie Dinosaur — Before the Walk: An Opening Statement

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79 - Why Live? Bring it yourself,
Cook it yourself,
Eat it yourself,
Then praise it yourself,
Wash up and go to sleep. Read more from here...

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