restraint – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs – Poems by Ronie Dinosaur

Seem to Begin

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: AntiConfessional, AntiInspiration, AntiRomantic, Begin, brutalhonesty, characterasphysics, ColdPoetry, ConceptOverComfort, ConceptualPoetry, ControlOfFailure, DignityOverDesire, endurance, existentialclarity, ExistentialEngineering, ExistentialLiterature, ExistentialMinimalism, ExistentialRealism, HumanArchitecture, HumanLimits, InnerDiscipline, Integrity, Isolation, NoConsolation, NonHeroic, NonRedemptive, PhilosophicalPoetry, PhilosophyInVerse, PoetryAsSystem, PoetryWithoutWarmth, posthope, PostMeaning, PostTherapy, PresenceWithoutPromise, PressureWithoutCollapse, RefusalAsAction, RefusalPoetry, restraint, Seem, StoicAdjacent, structuralethics, structuralintegrity, SystemThinking, TectonicPoetry, TectonicVoice, Unbent, unsentimental, Walking, WalkingWithoutMeaning.

Seem to Begin It has already begun-
it just doesn’t seem like it now.
Soon it will appear as morning:
a day, a whole day,
following this. Read more from here...

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The Unnamed Gift

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, Agency, alignment, Autonomy, boundaries, character, Choice, clarity, consent, Consent Culture, corruption, desire, dignity, discipline, Ethics, ethics of desire, Existentialism, exposure, gift, gravity, human heart, hunger, inner alarm, Innocence, Integrity, loneliness, love, lust, modern love, moral courage, morality, naming, non-consumption, philosophy, posture, power, pressure, Refusal, refusal as strength, responsibility, restraint, self-respect, Selfhood, silence, standing upright, temptation.

The Unnamed Gift When you give a gift,
do you announce it-This is for you-
or do you leave it in the dark
and call the receiver thief?
Hunger exists. Read more from here...

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Chapter 37 – Life Taught Me Restraint

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Achievement, Agency, agency-withholding, articulation, attachment, avoidance, boundaries, cognitive dissonance, communication, confession, consent, consequence, desire, emotional labor, Ethics, Existentialism, failure modes, honesty, identity, Intimacy., Isolation, learning, loneliness, loss, masculinity, Mastery, memory, moral discipline, optimization, overfitting, permission, phenomenology, power dynamics, procedural grief, Reciprocity, recognition, regret, repression, restraint, self-accountability, self-authorship, self-erasure, silence, social norms, speech acts, time, translation, unmet-need, unspoken, vulnerability.

Chapter 37 - Life Taught Me Restraint Life Taught Me Restraint - Part I Restraint became my native tongue;
desire learned to speak only in silence.
I hid the wanting so well
even I forgot its shape. 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 149 – Only Footsteps, Trace Alignment Yourself

Posted 5 months ago under Artificial Intelligence, DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: alignment, anti-guru stance, anti-ideology, anti-redemption narrative, applied philosophy, character formation, Coherence, coherence ethics, cost-aligned life, dignity without reward, discipline as ontology, discipline over hope, embodied thought, endurance, existential minimalism, existential philosophy, existential witness, footprint, footprints metaphor, Footsteps, human without halo, hunger as measure, integrity under cost, integrity without witness, ledger ethics, lived ethics, lived-truth, moral accounting, moral solitude, non-instructional philosophy, non-performative suffering, non-teleological living, non-transferable character, Only, outsider literature, philosophical autobiography, philosophical prose-poetry, philosophical resistance, refusal of maps, refusal of meaning, refusal of salvation, rejection of borrowed strength, responsibility, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 149, self-authorship, silence over proclamation, solitude, Trace, trace over teaching, truth under pressure, truth-without-consolation, uncompromising self, walking-motif, Yourself.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 149 - Only Footsteps, Trace Alignment Yourself He does not say,
become like me.
He does not say,
this will save you,
this will lift you, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 137 – The Fallen Cone and the Kite

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, ambiguity costs, attachment collapse, behavioral psychology, boundary ethics, character over comfort, clarity, consequence over intent, dignity, emotional economy, exposure, first-order inference, first-person philosophy, human limits, identity continuity, impermanence, impermanent love, internal consistency, inward sovereignty, lived-philosophy, loss without melodrama, memory preservation, minimalism, moral discipline, non-bargaining, non-entitlement, Personal Ethics, poverty vs dignity, Psychological realism, quiet resolve, record not nostalgia, Refusal, refusal of degradation, rejection without blame, resilience ethics, restraint, restraint as strength, self-reduction critique, self-respect, standards, survival critique, symbolic realism, unsentimental poetry, untethering, vulnerability without spectacle.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 137 – The Fallen Cone and the Kite Her love was like
a melting ice cream.
I hoarded coins for days-
small, dull metals scraped from pockets and dust-
until they weighed enough Read more from here...

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Health

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, anti-sentimentality, austerity, Autonomy, bodily-integrity, character, clarity, deprivation, dignity, discipline, discipline over hope, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existential poverty, Existentialism, grounding, hardship, health, human condition, Human Cost, infrastructure, limits, mental-resilience, minimalism, modern-poetry, moral stamina, necessity, non-negotiables, perseverance, philosophy, poverty, prerequisite, prose poetry, realism, reality-based ethics, Refusal, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-command, self-honesty, stoicism, survival, survival ethics, truthfulness, walking forward.

Health No status, no money, no love—
no wild fantasy to run loose
and soothe the wound poverty carved.
When nothing remains—no luck, no family,
no status, no money, no love— Read more from here...

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Discipline

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Autonomy, balance, character, clarity, Continuity, determination, discipline, endurance, Ethics, Existentialism, force, gravity, grit, identity, individuality, inner strength, Introspection, literary manifesto, Manifesto, masculinity, mental toughness, minimalism, modern-poetry, movement, philosophy, prose poetry, psychological discipline, realism, Refusal, refusal to bow, resilience, Resistance, resolve, responsibility, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-command, self-definition, Self-mastery, solitude, stoicism, struggle, Walking, weight, will.

Discipline This is my entire job profile-poor thing.
Alone, I probed the wound: what happened, why-
tears soaked my own shoulder.
Yet I scorned the sniffle as childish
for a man forged in character. Read more from here...

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Sing — 07 Feb 2005 by Ronie Dinosaur

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: 2005, aftermath, aging, archival writing, authenticity, boundaries, confessional poetry, crossed-out poem, diary poem, distance, early twenties, emotional clarity, emotional discipline, endurance, first-love, growth, handwriting, Heartbreak, history, Indian college, longing, longing without consent, loss, memory, naming absence, paper artifacts, plea, private writing, Refusal, refusal to send, regret, repetition, restraint, restraint learned, Ronie, self-awareness, self-command, silence, solitude, song lyrics, testimony, time, unrequited-love, unsent letter, voice, vulnerability, waiting, witness, yellowed pages, youth melancholy.

Sing — 07 Feb 2005 Sing,
sing for me,
I am waiting for you.
Oh, it doesn’t rain now;
everything just seems Read more from here...

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Anyways

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: awareness, body and mind, character in action, Choice, Courage, deliberate choice, divine vs human, emotional labor, endurance, ethical action, existential courage, existential reflection, existential terror, female ambiguity, godlike endurance, grief, Heartbreak, heartbreak resilience, human condition, human fragility, human struggle, Introspection, introspective epic, introspective prose, longing, Love and Loss, masculine restraint, meditative poetry, moral accounting, moral courage, moral responsibility, mortality, mythic metaphor, peacock metaphor, personal narrative, philosophical poetry, Psychological realism, reflective poetry, relational ethics, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-discipline, Self-mastery, stoicism, substance abuse, suffering, swan metaphor, temporal awareness, unrequited-love, walking anyway.

Anyways A god endured
thousands of years in exile,
drowned in grief-yet, sweetheart,
he feared neither death
nor darkness Read more from here...

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