Category Archives: A country tale

Sunday in Dolgellau

Posted on January 4, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Sunday ever changing The truest Wintry scene A great ball of light Is hovering It feels like a fight It’s magnificence is plying With the mist and cloud Behold the forests trees laid bare In what is a darkening shroud … Continue reading →

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Strings

Posted on January 2, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Festooned around the mountains apron Strings of sparkling diadems Vegetable strings Growing wild on fragile stems Illuminated by the sun Paths of light That the faeries spun Underneath the bluest sky Cloudless to the naked eye Staring this way staring … Continue reading →

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Neolithic heritage

Posted on December 26, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Wild feral goats From Neolithic times The bleakest passes Steep cliffs rocky outcrops RuggeD landscapes where These shaggy souls are feeding In the Snowdonia air Disused slate those quarries Hard to spot they be The stench of wildness follows them … Continue reading →

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Winter Solstice

Posted on December 21, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Gather round Hare babies All ears aloft The Winter Solstice When the woods appear soft We can hear Mrs Owl Hooting pure lullaby’s When Badgers in Setts Relax, when the guys The foxes fix earths When snow flutters free When … Continue reading →

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Farmers and female animals

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Rex Tyler

This is a female animal Chained and tortured by A male whose got it in for her As vegans we ask why Such spitefulness such malice On a female who Was made by god to mother calves Such rancour it … Continue reading →

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Jetster’s real fear { A cautionary Tale}.

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Rex Tyler

There is something out there an ominous force an evil foreboding a symptom at source   the rampant high grasses of long long ago where the threatening midges seemingly  grow   where phantom foxes try to deter with their cautionary … Continue reading →

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The little folk know as the wallies

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Rex Tyler

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   … Continue reading →

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Those trees are taking quite a bashing

Posted on November 27, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Sat  atop the hill Overlooking Dolgellau town the  trees are getter whacked about they could just come down smack into my white house whining every night all sorts torn a’sunder from Winters honest bite Sitting in my living room close … Continue reading →

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They force us to stand in our own shit

Posted on November 27, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Covered in dung These females among The worst of the souls that we see They like to feel clean Not like some machine So disrespected they be Supplying your milk Your steaks and your leather Given the look You can … Continue reading →

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Fox hunting goon

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Look at his buttons And his coat of green A heartless oaf We know where he’s been Invading a wild place Torturing he A hunter a punter A true devotee To killing. Our precious wild life

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Orange

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Both male and female Robins sing red breasted clarions ecliptic ring Cryptochrome a magnetic field an orange sigh  perchance they yield with solitary stature ever tested male is female brood on  show in female birds that’s if you know ears … Continue reading →

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The River is nigh

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Rex Tyler

It came upon a Winters Day perhaps from whom it came who knows the River  Cherwell flowing by and on the banks those seeing Cry maybe it’s a corporate sin fly tipping   its the biggest bin of shit plastic … Continue reading →

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Going to tell you a story about three bears

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Great some people have no idea What great means Three dead bears They were living earlier Probably said their prayers Until this bunch of rough necks Armed with shot came by Very little tween their ears And three bears had … Continue reading →

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The Moelwyns

Posted on November 22, 2025 by Rex Tyler

I can never strut my stuff up there but from my home I see a massive mountainous gifted soul that for an eternity   has been there beaming outwards a mighty beast of rock festooned with paths and waterfalls and … Continue reading →

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You have a name it’s mulesing caused by your live lamb cutting

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Rex Tyler

GAP Michael Kors  Super dry  H&M. Hugo Boss and fashion houses using wool Our detriment and defilement brought about by you the ignorant and arrogant who do not have a clue   you neglect us   You cause us trauma … Continue reading →

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The cantankerous insensitive or fox hunters as they prefer to be called

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Rex Tyler

He smacked a horse in the head he does A bloody thug he gets a buzz Threatening an innocent soul Ensuring he is in control A hunting man Clad in his gear After wild foxes so I hear Breaking the … Continue reading →

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Scintillation

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Rex Tyler

The wind and the lights its one of those nights rain on the window gives an impression a circular vision a sort of inversion Dolgellau i see the Moelwyns are sleeping the forests unseen As  the old Bard sits peeping … Continue reading →

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Killing wild foxes

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Killing wild foxes with hounds in a hunt get government handouts its seems it’s a punt exemptions and benefits a kind of crude Stunt   thousands and thousands from councils, from subsidies it makes no difference  criminals they make it … Continue reading →

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Afon Babi

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Rex Tyler

The gloriousness  of Autumn,  leaves the ultimate of hues the flush and blush of gold enobled by Nature’s realm of old sulphur tinged,  Birch yellow apricot tangerine November’s cooling influence that brings forth this wondrous scene     the wildness … Continue reading →

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Dewi said he would fetch me at 3.30pm

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Rex Tyler

In many ways To be going out on a Saturday afternoon something I hadn’t planned to do still and opportune a bluish sky some sunlit cloud Autumnal colours to the fore Sun kissed Birch and tree tops all part of … Continue reading →

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Animal friendship

Posted on November 6, 2025 by Rex Tyler

When the Squirrel Fell, New Friends Came to Help youtube.com/shorts/GM5oJYC… via @YouTube Deliverance Retrieval From potentially deaths door Poor little squirrel Wanted much more Than a broken back falling out of the tree That cat heartbroken As much as could … Continue reading →

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Friday 31st October @11.18pm

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Tonight the rain is smashing against the window pane the weather here is really awful  and a bitter crosswind causing massive howling a raging storm now blowing off the land   the trees are obviously out there bending crazily blast … Continue reading →

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Yule is in the offing

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Pumpkins and root crops And frost faeries come As the city folks leave Night falls and some Light forms exist where the stars And the moon Bring a share of true freedom Which helps us attune to the season

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I gave birth to twins

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Rex Tyler

I carried 2 babies so heavy for me Gave birth on this earth Their sweet faces did see Created my milk as rich as I could Til they kidnapped both of them They are just not good Humans buy my … Continue reading →

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All the flighty boys do well

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Rex Tyler

Falling for a lady These birds are fit to try In deference to courting Leaping through the sky It’s quite a dangerous journey All those rocks you know Throwing caution to the wind With true love down below

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A friend in need a true friend indeed

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Rex Tyler

A genuine friend Appointed by God Consuming the tics Creating a rod For her feathered soul This wonderful Deer Has a self made friend Who likes to be near A beautiful match In the wildest of worlds 🕊️🦌

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Nothing else better to do than stalk and kill

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Rex Tyler

A catapult and sickly mind A prisoner who confined His empathy and compassion to The sodden earth for he must screw The tender necks the fluttery wings A murder mission his heart sings Killing and maiming goddess birds I am … Continue reading →

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A medical excursion into motherhood

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Rex Tyler

When I saw this for the first time I was sickened to my core Surgical severity Way outside the law A female being thus exposed To a fate of such extreme Requisite in the stable More so than would seem … Continue reading →

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Pals together enjoying the countryside

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Rex Tyler

On a rock by the river Two pals the life giver Festooned in Nature Soft in repose A Bambi a pussy Loving the season That was the reason Their energy flows Like the river behind

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Flies are everywhere

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Rex Tyler

I have seen this unbelievably with chickens and with eggs Shit all over the floor and walls Over the animals legs Filthy dirty stinking places Even on their natural faces These farms are complete disgraces Meat and egg consumers it’s … Continue reading →

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