Dry stone wallers
exceptional
for wild soul callers
they
Field mice
Shrews
And Voles
abound
Hedgehogs,and Squirrels play
Not forgetting Samuel Stoat
all the beasties down below
side by side with slow worms
Newts and Toads all know
taking up residence
in these walls
a corridor you see
along with Moss and Lichens
vital wild life come
They all have a field day
Just hearken to that hum
of chattering
around the place
where all the dry walls are
standing upright in all weathers
here and there and far
across the fields and mountain sides
wallers do abide.
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.