restraint – Page 4 – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

The Birthday Cake

Posted 6 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 6 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 89 – My Body is an Envelope

Posted 6 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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Teenage Crush

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acceptance, adolescent-psychology, awkwardness, bittersweet, class-dynamics, coming-of-age, confusion, desire, emotional clarity, emotional honesty, emotional-literacy, everyday-moments, first-love, grounded-voice, human-fallibility, humiliation-without-drama, identity formation, Innocence, irony, lived-experience, longing, lost-time, masculinity, memory-as-wound, memory-fragments, nostalgia, observational poetry, past-self, personal-history, quiet-pain, realism, realism-over-romance, reflection, rejection, restraint, school-life, self-awareness, shyness, sincerity, social-pressure, teenage-memory, tenderness, understated-tragedy, unrequited-love, unsentimental-love, vulnerability, youthful-ego.

Title - Teenage Crush Today it returned again-
a heavy scoop from those years,
my first amateur crush.
Love at first sight,
third day of school. Read more from here...

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Why Not Me?

Posted 6 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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Why Did She Humiliate Me?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: animal-metaphor, anti-romance, biology, desire, Existentialism, Human nature, humiliation, hunger, Innocence, Intimacy., jungle-symbolism, loss, masculinity, modern-epic, mythic-poetry, philosophy, power, psychology, regret, restraint, self-knowledge, sexual-politics, tenderness, tragic-realism, unmet-love.

Title – Why Did She Humiliate Me? Why did she humiliate me so?
That heart-breaking woman laid me low.
To learn what happened, who he truly was,
he walked into the jungle, just because-
and lingered long in thought’s unyielding shade Read more from here...

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I Did Not Take

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, boundary, consequence, denial, desire, dignity, emotional discipline, Ethics, Integrity, loneliness, loss, masculinity, memory, moral-line, Refusal, regret-without-pity, restraint, self-respect, separation, silence, solitude, Take, time, unchosen, unreciprocated-love, youth.

Title - I Did Not Take She told herself it was no big deal-
to touch a friend with too much fire,
to pour her lust like cheap appeal.
I never urged her, never once.
I held my line. I stood my ground. 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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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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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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