Monthly Archives: February 2020

“Millie”

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A loving Staffordshire Terrier Was murdered in an awful way Kicked to death for being just a bitch Who really loved to play Imagine being kicked to death The agony the pain The emotion and the shock and awe A … Continue reading →

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Louise

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Following a poet Well very soon you know it A poem will be coming A little about you I see you are a vegan As I am so that’s good And that you so love animals As I do We … Continue reading →

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It happened in Clontarf last Monday

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Someone recorded a women In sneakers In pink jogging bottoms Of medium build apparently trying To Injure her greyhound To suffocate him Close to some field With a plastic bag Held over its mouth Whilst asking it why It tried … Continue reading →

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“Jeremy” POSSUM

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Despite our historicity And the outback being our place to be Still the criminal throwback creed Don’t want us wild souls To succeed They shoot some any time they can When they are feeding it’s their plan To gun them … Continue reading →

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“May”

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Drenched in the street Puddles for ones feet Under a car Our little star “May” cast away In the squelch and the squash Lying in pain Completely awash When we found her Her heart beating fast as could be Timid … Continue reading →

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“Wally”

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Rex Tyler

When your old Nobody loves you Disablement gets you down You realise you are a nuisance And no one in the town Wants to be your servant And so often you find Loneliness is your friend all day It’s all … Continue reading →

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“Cassandra”

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Deprivation It happens And when it does It really gets to us That solace that buzz In our hearts In our souls In our head everywhere We love and we need and we still Want to share They have gone … Continue reading →

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Gary

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Rex Tyler

The Roo’s in Australia Taking their hit Your empathy Gary It just doesn’t sit Well what some do You feel it you too The airbus unveiling A falcon so new In the past when a copper Clipped us around the … Continue reading →

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Wallaby dead flesh

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Wallaby on the bone Wallaby mince Purveyors are everywhere Waiting to convince The public at large Nutritionally That dead flesh Is good tasting and principally Game meat, exotic For people and pets And a vast mortality Really that sets Badly … Continue reading →

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“Yara”

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Rex Tyler

It’s really grim to be alone And in pain one has to say and ”Yara” she ticked all these boxes That was on the day We got a call To rescue her Hiding in a den Underneath a bush Amongst … Continue reading →

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Terry Cowling

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A tin tin fan from long ago Herge the adventurer Whose flow Began in 1929 George Remi Loved his glass of wine Swashbuckling pirates everyone And “Snowy” there To have some fun Captain Haddock A character Comical well they all … Continue reading →

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Peace and quiet of a country walk

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Rex Tyler

The peace and quiet The solitude The existential need To share the undying spirit In the countryside and feed Off of the glorious naturalness That abounds in all our hearts The physical The tangible How the visionary imparts So much … Continue reading →

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Pachyderms do suffer greatly ( so listen to them more)

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Rex Tyler

13 feet high 7000 kilos imagine that now if you will Sure some are smaller But still such great weight On four massive legs It’s wrong to conflate Size with true strength Power with big size We inexcusably don’t realise … Continue reading →

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Were caves ever the abode of man

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Rex Tyler

The great disentangle Return to the mangle Evolving with much shorter leaps Campaigning for clarity And perhaps charity Zeroing in often reaps A vanishing point From the caveman Once apelike but Able to be Quite the restrainer And new age … Continue reading →

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The Donkey and the Wolf

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A wolf captured in Patok A mountainous terrain Was brought into a farm And put in a cage Which was a strain On the wolf’s abilities And Although the farmer fed Food to the wolf thereafter He wasted it which … Continue reading →

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The old gate (the edge of the moor below Cosdon Hill)

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Rex Tyler

For me “NO HUNTING” Says it all A peaty path Where shadows fall Across Dartmoor A wooden gate A dry stone wall Whose crumbled state Gives passers by A chance maybe To stop and ponder And to see And feel … Continue reading →

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“Dil”

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A beautiful heart Barely beating Just left on waste ground In a heap Unconscious a soul Who switched off the fight Who was prostrate And had quietly switched off The light So much trepidation For one soul so small With … Continue reading →

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“Glory”

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Rex Tyler

When loyalty has been rewarded With A reason to be fearful, to me Shows absolute wickedness Ungodliness and, of course iniquity A bitch whose guiltlessness clearly Must have been shocked by it all When a guardian glues up your mouth … Continue reading →

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Street dogs in Cuba

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Rex Tyler

It must feel like HELL A place in the world Where there are no laws Protecting those hurled Into the maelstrom Of criminals who See a chaotic state With little to do The people don’t keep pets So there isn’t … Continue reading →

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Scarlett Hambidge

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Your moon is in Libra It’s colour is Scarlett Your name clearly thought about Long long ago A great water bearer And nobody fairer A genuine soul as most people know In Chinese Astrology You are a dog A dog … Continue reading →

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“Tinker” the little calf

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Absolute and enduring A frantic mother cries Heart breaking Her calf in danger Underneath the skies In a swamp hole Mud and slush thorns and Dark despair She had Fallen and was dying Very few aware The mother clearly beside … Continue reading →

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Silbury HILL

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Rex Tyler

5000 years Up till today It has to be possible I have to say Measured in megalithic yards And witnessed then by possibly bards Who like me wrote down all that they saw The shimmering chalk rising from off the … Continue reading →

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Ducks in Norfolk hurting bad

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Every child who has ever fed the ducks In ponds around Learns to appreciate water fowl Wherever they are found The sadness is that carnivores Have need to eat all meats And ducks too find their eaten As one of … Continue reading →

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Katja Meier

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Rex Tyler

As a vegan and animal lover Though my German isn’t good I get to see from your photo’s The kind of stuff that would Tick some of your boxes As a caring vegan you Clearly want for animals And do … Continue reading →

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The early riser

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Rex Tyler

An early rising met with a surprising violence She Is suffering She’s feminine in flight Clearly wanting nothing of what is this early roughness As the Tedium of Winter tries to smite Her waxy green leaves coping with this fury … Continue reading →

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To anyone who might consume foie gras

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Rex Tyler

What is said to be buttery And delicate tasting Foie gras the liver From ducks and geese who Received force fed corn and fat Shoved down their throats Thus creating a diseased state the innocent view A two ounce service … Continue reading →

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Interview with a farmer of foie gras

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Rex Tyler

What do you do for a living I am a farmer of sorts With geese and with ducks I am reading It’s foie gras I have in my thoughts Such beautiful birds Of the water Attested and genuine souls For … Continue reading →

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“RUFUS”

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Rex Tyler

They found him in the woods Very much the worse for wear Someone must have dumped him Imagine the despair The weakening the evil To just be left alone To somehow then survive The whole experience Unknown To be found … Continue reading →

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Indiscriminate fishing

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Commerciality In the world of animals Can tragically create a world Where compassion can be lost The empathy of caring Of living life and sharing Of facing competition And making life your mission Life is pure and sacred Which ever … Continue reading →

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Murdering loggers

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Rex Tyler

It happened in Portland Victoria A blue gum plantation It’s where Koala’s so many were killed In the fires At the height of such Awful despair The world has been shocked By the carnage These iconic animals they Gifted by … Continue reading →

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