Russell Poems

Russell Brand, Ayn Rand and Ray Milland Walk into a Bar

So: thinker, “personality” and actor
	are looking for a drink.
If two of them are trailers, one’s a tractor.
“Nice counter-top. Real zinc?”

“Don’t ask them stuff. They memorise words
	of better men, to spout ’em!”
“And his type feels the need to gather herds
	of sycophants about ’em.”

“There’s zinc in every human enzyme. Fact.”
	“An enzyme? Qu’est-ce que c’est?”
“A catalyst which helps
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Categories: russell, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme

The 20th Anniversary of Russell Hunter's Death

It was two decades ago today when an actor took his final breath.
When he starred in Doctor Who, he starred in "The Robots of Death".
His name was Russell Hunter and he was born in February of 1925.
Next year would've been his 100th birthday if he had survived.
Hunter starred in nineteen episodes of "The Gaffer" and
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Categories: russell, anniversary, celebrity, england,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberRussell Assange

Whats going on with Russell Brand? Over six million
Followers have penchant, he was once a man i did
Not admire..Yet over two years it has transpired Brand
Has burnt a brand, a searing line through mainstream
Medias fervid minds, though they'll rant and pant and
Roll the dice..Its not about whether Brant is nice.'
We know his past of women
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Categories: russell, celebrity, corruption, courage, discrimination,
Form: Verse

The Jack Russell Terrier

A packet of fizz the Jack Russell 
Full of dashing and daring and bustle
With engine on race
And the world left to chase
Any wonder he makes such a fussle?
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Categories: russell, animal, dog, humor, pets,
Form: Limerick

On Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell 
 
Bertrand Russell, he was a champion of reason, 
And his wisdom stands for all season, 
Whose wisdom and wit did so greatly astound,
And left us a legacy that will always resound.
He challenged the norms, and truth he exposed,
His legacy continues, and will never be closed.
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Categories: russell, age, america, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme


Long Since Stopped Binge Reading Bertrand Russell

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 former renown British philosopher, 
logician, and social critic. 

As an academic, he worked 
in philosophy, mathematics, and logic.

Just to reiterate
quite
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Categories: russell, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Long Since Stopped Binge Reading Bertrand Russell Ii

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 of the largest residential
property management firms in this area.

Analogous to basking robin luxuriating
within his/her medium of taster's choice,
I experience with
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Categories: russell, absence, august, beauty, books,
Form: Rhyme

Russell Ebert Oam

A hand pass out of the pack
Without needing to look back
Holding the premiership cup up high
A banner proclaiming God to run by

Four Margery Medals around his neck
If he was playing a sure fire bet
Six best and fairest for Port Adelaide 
A club that bred success that couldn’t fade

Russell Ebert was a legend of South Australian
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Categories: russell, football, sports,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

My Puppy

A puppy one day I brought home,
A jack russell you are,
You have beagle ancestors,
Having the beagle droopy ears
Your cute as can be,

You have some funny ways,
Dirty clothes you drag around,
Rolling on my sons bed,
Ripping the innards from shoes,
Growling at the dog in the mirror,
Growling at animals on the tv,

Some things you really hate,
Like that squirrel,
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Categories: russell, animal, best friend, cute,
Form: Free verse

Still Binge Reading Bertrand Russell

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 truly, a johnny come lately 
doth thirstily swill.

Though challenging material
to comprehend without shadow of doubt,
urs truly disciplines himself
to utter words out
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Categories: russell, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse

On Reading Bertrand Russell

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 mine brown
myopic eyes eagerly roam
affixing knowledge
within fifty plus shades
double fisted size
gray matter with cerebral dome.

Aging long haired pencil necked geek
said
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Categories: russell, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn First Reading Euclid, Young Bertrand Russell Is Forever Transformed By Mathematics


“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 to any part of our weaker nature,
     without the gorgeous trappings of painting
or music, yet [is
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Categories: russell, art, beauty, heart, math,
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member- Romantic Interlude - Collab With Russell Sivey -

Romantic emotions, the strongest human feelings
Are those that I love to have sweet dealings

To love is to have someone special in your heart
Knowing that your love will never fall apart

A companion, one who you can always depend
Where love exists, it’s what you both will send

There we are, both under a beautiful moonlit sky
A gesture of
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Categories: russell, beauty, love, romance,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberRussell

My dear friend Russell, our hearts are with you
One of the kindest Soup souls and one so true
Very few can replace
Your amazing grace
A one-of-a-kind gentleman to all of our troupe
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Categories: russell, health,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberReplying To Bertrand Russell

Science is what we believe to know while philosophy is what we would love to know!*







© Demetrios Trifiatis
       09 May 2017

*With all due respect to Bertrand Russell I disagree with his statement: " Science is what we know and philosophy is what we do not Know."

We only have to
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Categories: russell, philosophy, science, truth,
Form: Monoku

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