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I Look Like You — 20 Jan 2005

Posted 2 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 2 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 2 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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