Long Bertrand Poems

Still binge reading Bertrand Russell...
9/8/2020

I plunge further into 
erudite epistemological philosophication
courtesy said renown British polymath,
philosopher, logician, mathematician,
historian, writer, social critic,
political activist, and Nobel laureate.

Whew! His treatise
A History of Western Philosophy Quite profound 
grist for intellectual mill
yours...

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Heraclitus :
The world continues to be in a state of flux ,
Where strife (Nekos) and love (Philia) , 
Are the dividing and uniting forces in control ,
To ensure the balance and unity of the whole...

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Bertrand Russell
was intrigued by systems theory,
appalled by systemic racism
within himself and others,
corporations and churches
not recognizing each other's wisdom
also found in temples and synagogues
and community investment banks
and poor houses.

He was also interested in political philosophy,
power of...

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city limits;on 2nd street and elizabeth avenue,near a tire shop,and its where billy 
the kid the out law lived and died;as brushy bill,so sad,yet here stood by those 
very same street names in real life,his...

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Etude in Prose
{SCRIPT to prose}

SCRIPT::
I am afraid you presume too much
Mr Battersea   If I have lent you
reason to believe this
   I assure you otherwise  

Accept my apologies please Miss Schofield
...

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On Reading Bertrand Russell --
A History of Western Philosophy
copyright date 1945

Trenchant treatise purchased
August 25th, 2020
at Limerick Chapel Book Sale
(in Church gym)
offered old library books
cost 25 cents apiece.

Musty tome
seventy five years out of print
found welcome home
nevertheless...

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(Poem is in the peace symbol, created in 1958 by designer Gerald Holtom, upward V and later chosen by Bertrand Russell. Please read the first oblique downright and the second upright. Then, the last four...

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Slow and methodical 
thru telling material I tiresomely did wade
steeping yours truly signature 
writing stock in trade
while sprawled out on bed housed within
one bedroom apartment (B44)

Highland Manor Apartments
(situated in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
owned by Grosse and Quade),
one...

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I, (a bookish educated intelligent nerd,
albeit three score plus tres años)
constitutes a novel titled 
The Virgin's Lover
by Philippa Gregory
another writer from England. 

Not so much to boast
yours truly sunk trenchant figurative teeth
into material authored courtesy
aforementioned...

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Start

If someone asked me, “A penny for your thought”
I’ll tell him, “Sorry! It can’t be bought”
The thought process runs like a train
Fed by emotions and nurtured by the brain

Said Swami Vivekananda, “Thoughts have made us...

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"Most people would sooner die than think, in fact, they do," ... Bertrand Russell (Quote hidden within the Sonnet in Italics)

Sonnet:

Most of the time when I'm under the sun,
ought not to watch nor pass by...

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This is to all you lovely folks, who have become such an important part of my life, 
although I'd like to single out a few special folks- Sharon Weimer- everyone's No. 
1 favorite poet and...

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yyou will adhere to me with a little less pain;you will see me write the greatest 
pors;ever writtened;i will quote the lesser poets dream,i will rise for what they 
never  settle for,i will speak...

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At 21 I should be filled up with more than just questions
that go unasked and unanswered, I always hated thinking 
of the things I'll never know because I never tried. 
I'm rising up in some...

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I looked into the smooth mirror of the lake what did I see?
In the reflection starring back at me, I had seen a child wanting to be free.
Of the insecurities held deep inside trying to...

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In the corner
Is my pole star
Light and insight
Never blur
In the corner
Balm they are
For wounds of war


When sun is dark
Empty the park 
In lingering pain
limps the lark
Inside the clock
Hours of shark 
Roads are blocked 
Rooms are...

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*Image of Clock Time Dove by Pixabay.
Keola: Sonnet 

"Most people would sooner die than think, in fact, they do," ... Bertrand Russell (Quote hidden within the Sonnet in Italics

Most of the time when I'm under...

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america;a white homeless man found in a ditch;by interstate
35 south and feeder road;of austin,texas;some times they
really dont come back;but what if it was me;would it
then;my freind;or would have to be to mean some thing
with the...

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

It’s a darkness so sad and grim,
Dreams destroyed by the bleakest sins,
It’s more than loss of life and limb
World War isn’t...

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“Is 'Mathematics...not only [a] Truth,
     but [a] supreme beauty—a beauty cold
and austere, like that of sculpture [uncouth
     to men for whom this concept is too bold],
without appeal...

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ms.poetry writer4386 around the world,hovered under his wings!just like shes on 
this great parade of renewal of human fate,siging live autographs of her famous 
poetry of the new editors award,and from poetry.com shows it on...

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"Now if there is an aether wind, it is clear that , relatively to an observer on the earth, light signals will seem to travel faster with the wind than across it, and faster across...

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