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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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College Canteen

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acoustic, acoustic guitar, alternative, angst, bridge, campus life, college canteen, Confessional, contemplative, emotional honesty, emotional restraint, empty chair, everyday life, first person, grounded, Heartbreak, human condition, indie, intimate performance, Introspection, introspective, lonely, low-fi, melancholy, minimalism, modern folk, muted chorus, narrative song, Observation, personal reflection, pre-chorus, private world, quiet defiance, raw imagery, raw vocals, real-life, realism, realism in music, relatable, resilience, self-awareness, slow song, solitude, standing upright, storytelling, stripped-down, struggle, subtle rebellion, truth, unfiltered emotion, unrequited-love, vocal delivery, youth.

College Canteen Verse 1 I thought if I stood up straight, man,
this whole damn canteen would notice-
walls would chill a little,
chairs would slide closer, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 150 – Interlude: What Even the Lowest Get

Posted 5 months ago under Artificial Intelligence, DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, denial of basics, dignity under loss, dignity without reward, emotional restraint, endurance, ethical hunger, ethical refusal, Even, existential audit, existential ledger, existential poetry, existential walking, first-order injustice, Get, human condition, human silence, hunger as metaphor, injustice, inner exile, inner law, Interlude, inward dialogue, inward resistance, literary interlude, loneliness, Lowest, minimal human share, modern existentialism, modern tragic voice, moral accounting, moral deprivation, moral minimalism, non-romantic suffering, philosophical literature, philosophical prose-poetry, poverty metaphor, Psychological realism, quiet suffering, refusal of bitterness, refusal of consolation, restraint in grief, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 150, self-address, self-censorship, self-contained grief, silence as ethics, solitude, unacknowledged pain, underworld imagery, unrequited-love, walking onward.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 150 - Interlude: What Even the Lowest Get Not my right-
not even that reaches me.
Not what matches my worth-
not even that.
What every human needs, Read more from here...

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Psychopath

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability failure, ambiguity as control, asymmetrical investment, attention without commitment, boundary enforcement, boundary violation, closeness without clarity, college relationships, consent vs clarity, delayed closure, delayed cruelty, emotional ambiguity, emotional harm, emotional labor, emotional misuse, emotional negligence, emotional withdrawal, friendship betrayal, friendship boundaries, human attachment, intimacy imbalance, moral blindness, moral deflection, moral inversion, narrative control, narrative rewriting, nonverbal cruelty, passive manipulation, power asymmetry, psychological injury, Psychological realism, rejection dynamics, rejection trauma, relational collapse, relational ethics, responsibility avoidance, silent rejection, silent violence, social dynamics, social hierarchy, social power, symbolic rejection, trust erosion, unacknowledged power, unrequited-love, unspoken hierarchies.

Psychopath Here you are,
enjoying life,
getting close-personal, private-
with people he believed were only casual friends,
lesser ones. Read more from here...

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I Look Like You — 20 Jan 2005

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: 2005 poem, adolescent identity, autobiographical poem, decay and memory, early authorship, early heartbreak, emotional dependency, emotional honesty, emotional minimalism, emotional mirror, emotional mirroring, existential youth, fear retention, first love residue, fragile hope, ghost self, identity fracture, inner collapse, inner dialogue, internal critic, inward gaze, loneliness voice, longing presence, loss illusion, love projection, memory artifact, mirror imagery, non-performative art, personal archive, personal mythology, poetic fragment, private writing, psychological reflection, raw-poetry, self-alienation, self-criticism, self-erasure, self-growth anxiety, self-recognition failure, silent grief, teenage introspection, time capsule poem, unfinished self, unrequited-love, unsent confession, yellowed pages, youth despair.

I Look Like You — 20 Jan 2005 Did I know?
I am a ghost,
hiding a mirror in which
I can’t see myself.
Yet there is hope-an illusion: Read more from here...

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No Such Girl Though — 10 December 2005

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: 2005 diary, abandonment fear, adolescent trauma, artistic documentation, autobiographical poem, coming of age pain, creative survival, early authorship, early identity crisis, early poetry, emotional endurance, emotional honesty, emotional isolation, emotional residue, existential numbness, first love wound, first rejection, handwritten lyrics, inner child voice, innocence lost, lived-experience, loneliness imagery, love refusal, memory artifact, mental exhaustion, noncommercial art, obsessive repetition, personal archive, personal mythology, poetic artifact, private grief, psychological looping, raw songwriting, raw-confession, rejected confession, rejection memory, self-talk poetry, solitude themes, teenage heartbreak, time and decay, time capsule writing, trauma imprint, unpolished writing, unrequited-love, unsent song, vulnerability in art, yellowed pages, youth despair.

No Such Girl Though — 10 December 2005 From green and blue to stars in black,
I just can’t contact—
my shout can’t catch—
I am bound to react.
If she hates me, then it’s okay, because she does. 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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Sorcery

Posted 5 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 132 – The World Runs on Courage

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-romance, Courage, dignity in loss, emotional ethics, emotional integrity, emotional minimalism, emotional restraint, endurance without reward, ethical love, existential poetry, existential walking, grief discipline, grief processing, human core, human residue, inner courage, inner witness, internalized myth, introspective literature, inward resistance, loneliness narrative, masculine-vulnerability, modern myth, moral stamina, mythic realism, non-transactional love, personal cosmology, personal mythology, philosophical verse, poetic defiance, post-romantic poetry, Psychological realism, quiet endurance, quiet heroism, refusal of consumption, refusal of spectacle, refusal-to-beg, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 132, silent loyalty, solitary resolve, spiritual secularism, stoic movement, survivor voice, symbolic monsters, tragic clarity, truth-without-consolation, unrequited-love, unsaid love, walking metaphor, World Runs, wounded narrator.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 132 – The World Runs on Courage The world runs on courage alone-
otherwise the monsters
would have devoured everything.
Somewhere in her heart,
something must have been saved for me too; Read more from here...

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