stoicism – Page 2 – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

Sorcery

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, ambiguity, autobiographical fiction, body language, boundaries, character, confession, consent, desire, dignity, discipline, disillusionment, emotional labor, first-order truth, Heartbreak, Intimacy., Kaliyug myth, longing, loss, masculinity, modern alienation, Modernity, moral economy, mythic voice, peacock metaphor, power dynamics, Pride, Psychological realism, Purity, Refusal, rejection, restraint, restraint ethics, romantic idealism, Ronie Dinosaur, self-respect, Selfhood, solitude, Sorcery, stoicism, swan metaphor, symbolism, transformation, unrequited-love, vulnerability, will.

Sorcery I came back having lost-so who has ever come back having won?
I lived by my own will; this is not called losing.
I became Ronie to the whole world-from five-year-old children to everyone at the table, at the door, or on the floor.
In return for the love I gave the boy within me, I could not gather love from a girl for myself.
The generosity of my spirit, my character in action, my golden intent-and yet my desire proved fruitless. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 131 – The Fear of Solitude

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acceptance, Agency, awareness, character, clarity, consciousness, consequence, Courage, destiny, determinism, discipline, emotional control, endurance, Ethics, Existentialism, fate, fear, forward motion, grit, grounded wisdom, human condition, inevitability, inner strength, Introspection, Maturity, minimalism, Moral Spine., non-romantic, perseverance, personal law, philosophical poetry, psychological stability, quiet power, realism, refusal-of-illusion, resilience, resolve, responsibility, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 131, RonieDinosaur, Self-mastery, solitude, stoicism, strength without hope, time, walking metaphor, will.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 131 - The Fear of Solitude He walks in fear of being left behind,
in fear of ending up alone.
Yet he walks alone-
and always remains alone,
no matter what. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 134 – The Law of Inevitability

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acceptance, Agency, awareness, character, clarity, consciousness, consequence, Courage, destiny, determinism, discipline, emotional control, endurance, Ethics, Existentialism, fate, forward motion, grit, grounded wisdom, human condition, inevitability, inner strength, Introspection, Maturity, minimalism, Moral Spine., non-romantic, perseverance, personal law, philosophical poetry, psychological stability, quiet power, realism, refusal-of-illusion, resilience, resolve, responsibility, restraint, RonieDinosaur, Self-mastery, solitude, stoicism, strength without hope, time, walking metaphor, will.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 134 - The Law of Inevitability What was meant to happen
has already passed.
What is unfolding now
unfolds as it must.
What is destined to be Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 122 – Hibernation of the Self

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, athlete, Autonomy, awakening, boundaries, character, collapse, consciousness, delayed-growth, dignity, discipline, emotional-austerity, endurance, Existentialism, Hibernation, identity, Integrity, internal-conflict, Introspection, Isolation, lived-experience, loss, memory, moral-awakening, non-romantic, personal-ethic, philosophy, realism, recovery, Refusal, rehab, rejection, resilience, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 122, Self, self-examination, self-preservation, Selfhood, silence, stoicism, substance abuse, survival, time, trauma-processing, walking forward, withdrawal.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 122 - Hibernation of the Self I am not just what happened to me.
When you rejected your friend-
because you are a woman,
you had that right-
I felt insulted, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123 – Collapsed Twice

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, addiction-context, adulthood, Agency, autobiographical, Autonomy, character, cold-clarity, collapse, collapse-narrative, Collapsed Twice, consequence, dignity, Ethics, existential, family-expectation, grief, human condition, identity, Introspection, Isolation, judgment, literary-poetry, lived-experience, masculinity, mental health, minimalism, money-and-loneliness, moral-neutrality, non-redemptive, perception, philosophy, pressure, psychological, realism, recovery, recovery-path, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123, Selfhood, silence, social-pressure, stoicism, survival, testimony, trauma, truth-telling, Value.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123 – Collapsed Twice I collapsed twice in my life.
The first time was at twenty-one.
Family pressed in:
“Why aren’t you studying?
What are you even doing there? Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 121 – 103 Degrees Low

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: burning calm, controlled fury, dark romance, dignity, emotional control, emotional honesty, emotional precision, emotional survival, emotional temperature, endurance, Heartbreak, hidden turmoil, inner fire, inner flame, inner war, internal-conflict, iron will, Isolation, lyrical storytelling, masculinity, mental battle, personal myth, poetic intensity, poetic metaphor, poetic noir, Pride, private hell, psychological heat, quiet rage, rejection, rejection pain, rejection trauma, resilience, restraint, self-discipline, self-respect, silent suffering, solitude, solitude path, stoicism, strength, suppressed anger, unresolved feelings, vulnerability, walking away.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 121 - 103 Degrees Low Verse 1 Feeling doesn’t make it real-
only knowing does.
I burned inside; you never felt
the fire I carried just because. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 118 – Neither Nor

Posted 2 months ago under Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: 758 Days, accuracy, Archetypes, Asceticism, Athlete Philosopher, Beyond the Muse, blame, Delhi Poets, discipline, emotional intelligence, Field Report, Five Monasteries, High Character, Integrity, Intellectual Sovereignty, Inverted Casanova, Isolation, Male Experience, masculinity, Mastery, Mental Strength, modern philosophy, Neither, Neither Nor, Nor, obligation, On-Off Switch, Performance Disorder, philosophy, poetry, Post-Illusion, Radical Acceptance, recovery, rehab, Relationship Standards, resilience, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 118, Self-Belief, Self-Forgiveness, Shiva, Solo Walker, Sovereign Partnership, Spiritual Warfare, stoicism, survival, The Abyss, The Lighthouse, The Void, Truth-Teller, Unsold, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 118 – Neither Nor Neither submission nor aggression.
A woman who neither kneels nor strikes.
For the philosopher-athlete forged in one scarred body,
a companion who meets affection and responsibility in equal measure-
no reflex to drag him under, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur – The Unsold Man

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anger, anti-compromise, character, College Life, Defiance, detention, dignity, discipline, endurance, Existentialism, extinction metaphor, failure, fate, first-love, hunger, inner flame, Integrity, intent, labor, loneliness, man, masculine identity, Moral Spine., nonconformity, Outsider, personal mythology, poverty, Pride, rebellion, Refusal, refusal to kneel, rehabilitation, rejection, resilience, restraint, road narrative, Ronie Dinosaur, self-authorship, self-respect, silence, solitude, stoicism, strength, survival, The Unsold Man, truth, unreciprocated-love, Unsold, unsold soul, upright man, walking alone.

Ronie Dinosaur (The Unsold Man) (Verse 1) I loved at first sight, got laughed at by noon,
turned the pain into iron, forged muscle from ruin.
College crowned me king, girls kept my seat warm,
but the one who held my heart said, “No, that’s not the form.” Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 – Canteen, First Year

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absolute Zero, Betrayal, burden, Canteen, character, Childhood Scars, College Life, Courage, desire, devotion, discipline, emotional intelligence, Empty Stadium, Exile, Existentialism, fate, First Year, first-love, first-order truth, Ghosting, Gnosticism, Heartbreak, Inner Artist, Integrity, intent, loneliness, masculinity, memory, Penance, philosophy, Reconciliation, recovery, Redemption, rehab, resilience, respect, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117, self-punishment, self-worth, Silent Gaze, Social Contract, solitude, Sovereignty, stoicism, substance abuse, survival, The Ledger, The Void, The Walk, trauma, truth, vulnerability.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 - Canteen, First Year So I stood in the canteen,
first-year,
the angriest young man on campus.
Armor on the outside,
an artist locked within. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 115 – Stubborn

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: absence of witnesses, anti-romanticism, anti-sentimental poetry, austerity, dignity without reward, disciplined suffering, endurance ethic, ethical clarity, ethical endurance, existence without applause, existential cadence, existential labor, existential poetry, existential realism, existential solitude, identity through action, inner contract, inner silence, inward resistance, inward sovereignty, moral discipline, moral posture, moral stubbornness, persistence, persistence as meaning, persistence over meaning, philosophical endurance, philosophical minimalism, philosophical restraint, procedural existence, procedural faith, refusal of spectacle, refusal to kneel, resilience, resilience without consolation, restraint in language, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 115, self-contained identity, self-definition, silence, silent defiance, solitude, stoicism, Stubborn, stubbornness, survival ethic, survival without hope, walking as metaphor, walking forward.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 115 - Stubborn When courage, bravery, and luck surrender,
and even character offers no choice,
my spirit lifts the heart,
teaching it to feel alive-even in the stubborn dark.
I cling to the act of walking, Read more from here...

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