Author Archives: Rex Tyler

About Rex Tyler

I love animals. I enjoy writing poetry and delivering speeches.I like to mentor people who need help in preparing speeches and evaluations.I enjoy travel although it is much harder for me these days.I so enjoyed the Andes Mountains and Volcanoes and the Quichua people who live and thrive there.I have lots of friends around the world.

I have yellow poppies in my garden

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Rex Tyler

The Welsh Poppy Good and yellow, Symbolises some success Prosperity and optimism A land that’s kind of mellow Shingle banks Good drainage Loves the sun that shines Ground shading Good weed clearing A living mulch are signs That beautify Up … Continue reading →

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Anyone for sushi?

Posted on May 31, 2026 by Rex Tyler

It’s all about freshness And so the Japanese Keep me alive Choking yes one big tease Gasping for air The huge pangs of pain So you can eat fresh Again and again By Fredrick Fish

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Saving a fox

Posted on May 31, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Con Cáo Được Cứu Thoát… Và Điều Nó Làm Hôm Sau Khiến Tất Cả Sững Sờ youtube.com/shorts/gj9xtT3… via @YouTube Most foxes know That humans show Malice to their breed And being knotted up Inside his garden It could lead To … Continue reading →

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Monsters in our midst

Posted on May 31, 2026 by Rex Tyler

When the suffering of others Becomes the pleasure for the few These grooming gangs that operate It is my honest view Arrogance and ignorance On the vilest scale Carried out on children And on infants doth derail All argument of … Continue reading →

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Trophy hunters

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Rex Tyler

A divine right As a hunter to be Killing the elephant Yes painfully Not for any reason Only that he, the hunter Can kill and Most certainly For me trophy hunters Need to be Educated about life And never to … Continue reading →

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Gifting Sparrows

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Rex Tyler

At first level Fed the birds today Sunflower hearts they love Nibbling fastidiously Fallen from above Teasels buds and foodie hits The early voters they Find the good that I have left Earlier in the day All of them were … Continue reading →

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It happened in Bangladesh so I hear

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Meat eating those of you who do Who originate from far away Killing and dismembering a holy flock Making beautiful animals pay With their lives Everyday Torturing them Can’t you see The agony For them was real And for what … Continue reading →

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I heard what a pig said in his darkness

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Rex Tyler

In a craven cellar A vile gestation crate Farrowing disasters Sadly are of late Squalid spaces smelling Of excrement and pee And I will die an Angel And shits will then eat me

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Farming pigs

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Rex Tyler

His thoughts about the pigs he keeps This ignorant farmer who Imprisons them all from day one And he thinks he is true They do no have sweat glands So he keeps them in the heat Throws mud at them … Continue reading →

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Luca’s Photography

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Rex Tyler

It’s clearly a therapy That we can see With his Canon he captures Art forms that be Hiding in plain sight Fastidious sense Awarding and sharing New found confidence A stage set observing A great panoply The Snowdonia sky’s she … Continue reading →

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In the ancient forest

Posted on May 29, 2026 by Rex Tyler

I live near the forest As ancient as hell Where the mosses and lichens Summarily spell Ancientnessness none of of the modern day stuff In the great web of life Where so much is enough Glyphosate, toxins shooters lead shots … Continue reading →

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The voice

Posted on May 29, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Competing, imagine that Singing away An audience listening This is your day The soul in you cries The heartbeat you hear Your hands clenched and warming And there’s a tear Rolling down your cheek You are moved by it all … Continue reading →

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Opera

Posted on May 29, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Years ago Up in London Covent Garden I stood Singing those sweet love songs Just cos I could My friend her guitar A soprano was she We sang for our supper For a nice pot of tea Jasmine or sencha … Continue reading →

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Busking in the high street

Posted on May 29, 2026 by Rex Tyler

It’s an unchained melody Cluttering streets Loads of passers by Unaware of the beats The simple guitar The lilt of the voice Some stand and swoon Accepting the choice Others a great sea Of inveterate souls Shopping not stopping With … Continue reading →

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Close to the wild

Posted on May 29, 2026 by Rex Tyler

From our window We see them the high peaks away Wildness apparent Almost every day Close to the wild woods Where wild sounds exist The stoat and the fox Faces lost in the mist They may peer at your window … Continue reading →

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Friendships in the garden

Posted on May 29, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Flowers and there are many In gardens everywhere But a genuine quality To actually be aware Marigolds reduce nematodes Often in the soil And poppies suppress weed growth Saving us the toil Wallflowers good with orchard plants Lupins aid the … Continue reading →

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Vegetable companions

Posted on May 29, 2026 by Rex Tyler

The arrogance of ignorant man Gardeners of sort Who just deem to imagine How growing things needs thought Groups of various edibles Some operating well With companion planting Not something people sell Asparagus loves Parsley And basil seems to be … Continue reading →

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Awelfa’s garden

Posted on May 28, 2026 by Rex Tyler

It comes on all levels Alpine inclines Fruit trees and ferns So many signs Of deep thoughts And caring Selections we see Wild edibles bordering Attract the Bee No immaculate borders Nor flowers in straight rows All sorts of orders … Continue reading →

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In the swim

Posted on May 28, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Starving them of oxygen Making them appear To be dragged out of the ocean By great netting of fear Icing them and watching them Scream for all their worth Soaking them in blocks of ice Removing them from their earth … Continue reading →

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Twm a new born

Posted on May 28, 2026 by Rex Tyler

A Bonnie baby comes into Our wonderful world Both good and true To Laura and Dewi A child is born To accompany Hari This May Day morn No happier family Dolgellau’s gift Where mountains smoulder And songbirds lift The psyche … Continue reading →

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The Nature track footpath close to Awelfa

Posted on May 27, 2026 by Rex Tyler

The bushes just outside my house A conglommerate of souls The green encompassing offering Therein housing trolls All undulating in the breeze Where all manner of song birds hide Staring out to the mountains On the Western side Rocking green … Continue reading →

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Bind Weed

Posted on May 27, 2026 by Rex Tyler

What is an encumbent species A structured sprawling mass Dangling so forcefully Exceedingly its crass To hunker under apple trees Among the ferny dark Tapestries of tippet Suspended makes it mark Morning Glory growing Trumpet flowers can grow white and … Continue reading →

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Slow Worms

Posted on May 27, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Fraternisation such intimacy Coming to terms With slow worms who be In fact legless lizards Eye lids and all Ear holes for hearing Affabilities call No eggs about them Live young they birth Social activities That is their worth Dry … Continue reading →

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Purslane

Posted on May 25, 2026 by Rex Tyler

It grows in cracks out of pavements An edible, famed for its style Green succulent leaves Packed with omega 3 fatty acids And more than that, it achieves What is A super food status Ruled by the moon And pigs … Continue reading →

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Rhododendrons

Posted on May 25, 2026 by Rex Tyler

An invasive floral destroyer Of deliberate power and acclaim It’s inveterate impetuosity Fearless it’s spirited fame Loves a wet Spring on its budlets With acidic earth at its feet It be a formidable growing machine In woodlands it’s hardly discreet … Continue reading →

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The magical ale hoof or Ground Ivy

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Nepeta Glechoma ground Ivy A cure all From years long before Grows in large patches With kidney shaped leaves Bright violet flowers Don’t ignore Prolific abundance Square stems like Mint Aromatic it has a fine oil Low growing Bee’s love … Continue reading →

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Jetster having treatment today

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Jetster is a fave of mine Who lives with Claudie, She Rescued him and loves him And, he once told me He just loves to live with her To follow her around To sit with her To lay with her … Continue reading →

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Baby pigs cry too you know

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Imagine a baby stuck in a crate A fallowing prison This is the fate Of piglets around the world Suffering so Caught in the bars People don’t want to know Suffering infants Suffering crying Pork ribs and sausages So many … Continue reading →

Posted in A day in the life, babies, Baby talk, Farming, Food Processing, Meat trade, Piglets suckling, Pigs, slaughterhouses and operatives | Leave a comment

Dairy cow blues

Posted on May 21, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Climbing the wall Scuffing our legsScraping our souls Everyone begsFor just more humility Mothers we be Giving our babes life And your tragedy Is eating the burgers Eating the buns Refusing to hear us

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Pig ignorant consumers

Posted on May 21, 2026 by Rex Tyler

You bet it happens The vilest gate Absolute cruelty And to state Anything less Is to really lie Fabricate illustrate Watching them die Innocent angels Heavenly souls Crying in misery for Meat eating trolls

Posted in A day in the life, Humanity is a shithouse, Meat trade, Piglets suckling, Pigs, Pork, slaughterhouses and operatives | Leave a comment