self-command – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

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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On its Own

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Autonomy, character, decision-making, desire, Ethics, evolution, hunger, instinct, Integrity, internal-conflict, life rules, lion metaphor, logic, mind vs heart, moral choice, Nature, personal growth, philosophy, practical wisdom, responsibility, restraint, self-command, self-discipline, self-governance, Self-mastery, stoicism.

Title - On its Own Integrity, morals, ethics, character-
these are the mind’s stern judges.
And then there is my heart,
which does not judge
what should be done. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 48 – Physical Exercise

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-comfort, Asceticism, awareness, bodily-intelligence, clarity, consciousness, discipline, Effort, embodiment, endurance, entropy-control, fatigue, Physical Exercise, pragmatism, realism, Resistance, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 48, routine, self-command, self-maintenance, self-regulation, sobriety, survival, vigilance, will.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 48 - Physical Exercise Why, all of a sudden,
am I holding back from an early goodbye,
bracing myself to keep the house from collapsing?
For over two decades I pondered this-
and it was always my consciousness Read more from here...

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