Category Archives: A country tale

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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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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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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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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Glyphosate. Ban this shit!

Posted on May 13, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Good on you We have to try And stop using it And to rely On farmers really To honestly Stop using such horrors It seems to me A vile solution A sickening scent A diabolic circumvent Crippling aura Chemically Carcinogenic … Continue reading →

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From Awelfa

Posted on May 9, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Magical beings That’s trees in my book Forests and groves Those of us look Closer and closer Imagining they Have spirits and true souls Which we can’t take away They exists with good magic survive with folk lore Oxygen makers … Continue reading →

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Cregennan Lakes

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Rex Tyler

The Landscape Here, around these parts Are breathtakingly fine Both Cregennan Lakes For all our sakes Are scenically divine Unbelievable Mountain vistas Wondrous lakes of myriad blues Brown trout Blue and Rainbow Trout And absolutely inspiring views The estuary of … Continue reading →

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Essential oil from a sunshine herb

Posted on May 4, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Eternal love my goodness We all want that don’t we A wild plant of the hillsides Where it grows positively Helichrysum italicum A curried sweet bouquet We ought to buy a bottle Or grow some right away. Came via a … Continue reading →

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The meat trade sickens me

Posted on May 3, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Frustration imagine it will you A gestation crate is to where Farmers pack pigs into daily Leaving them sad with despair Biting the bars makes their mouth sore No where to turn everyday Torture it’s happening horribly The meat trade … Continue reading →

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Milk slaves and kidnap

Posted on May 1, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Kidnap it is And a mother in pain Losing her baby It drives them insane A farmer is doing it Profiting he Is selling her milk It’s a big travesty Ofcourse she’s beside herself Suffering so Chasing the wagon Where … Continue reading →

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A pig of a day in the life of a sow

Posted on May 1, 2026 by Rex Tyler

The eye says it all He had not been to school Bred on a farm That’s what he Found himself living With nobody giving Him credence for wanting to be Alive and living With his family tree But one day … Continue reading →

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Vegans and their sacred karma

Posted on April 30, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Vegans care And want to eat Life forces That never cheat The animal world Not ever they Vegetable materialsFlowers and shoots Getting to the nations roots Raw and cooked boiled and fried Wild and organic strong and mild Animals don’t … Continue reading →

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May time is here again

Posted on April 28, 2026 by Rex Tyler

A merry month of May arrives Full of joyful life Bird song welcomes everyone Primroses are everywhere Coming to an end Searching out the artist in our souls This wild flung friend Five petals and five stamens Thanks to the … Continue reading →

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Awelfa in Spring

Posted on April 28, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Near my house is a track It, doesn’t go that far Bounded by bushes And wild flowers that are Edible many of them Just free to eat Where hedgehogs and even a stoat Do compete Sedums and ground Ivy clovers … Continue reading →

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A walk in the countryside this afternoon

Posted on April 17, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Out for a walk And what did we see A hillside where splendour And Nature roam free An elegant stag With one antler and he Was tasting the fresh grass And herbage wildly A tree where the fae Had took … Continue reading →

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Stag hunting

Posted on April 17, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Chasing a wild stag That’s what they do In front of families with children In view chasing for five hours Threateningly Wildness torn out of it So viciously The hunts need a kicking They need a good hiding Killing our … Continue reading →

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I stayed a while

Posted on April 14, 2026 by Rex Tyler

I met a hound A character Wilbur was his given name A haughty bark Who made his mark In the countryside He staked his claim Diminutive Yet boisterous, he Lived with Robert Oldham who Lived in little Heath A great … Continue reading →

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A pig wishes

Posted on April 14, 2026 by Rex Tyler

A pig ‘s sensitivity to life is the extreme Born without sweat glands it can dream Of mud and wetness of soulful prose And the wind in summer I do suppose.

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Gambling on outcomes

Posted on April 11, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Making our friends leap over the fences Really as humans will we come to our senses Ever in this life! Distasteful and nasty Torturing forcefully Gambling badly losing it sadly Horses are suffering Ignorance buffering Beautiful gentrified Souls suffer silently

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Dancers End nature reserve

Posted on April 9, 2026 by Rex Tyler

A nature reserve In Dancing End In Charles Rothschilds memory A great wealth they send Ancient old woods A haven of calm And Pavis Woods Indomitable charm It’s a special place On the chilterns, we see Acres and acres High … Continue reading →

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Lambs to slaughter

Posted on April 9, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Hitting us with sticks they were forcing us to leave Just lambs to the slaughter What do they achieve By putting the fear of god up us Frighteningly so We are little babies And, we don’t want to go Many … Continue reading →

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In Dancers End I met a friend

Posted on April 6, 2026 by Rex Tyler

In A Queens Anne house In Dancers End On a stormy night I met a friend On a staircase steep A presence deep An effigy the sort of sight That appeared to touch me And watch me fall Down a … Continue reading →

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Wildwood Wolves

Posted on March 27, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Wildwood Wolves Breathed Kentish air These Roman named ones They could share A wild wild spirit Clothed in soul Wondrously in some control Of living together a family who Broke through the maze A life so true life Learning their … Continue reading →

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Rookery Nook

Posted on March 17, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Rookery nook Appeared in a book For a lady who once danced To classical music And her steps they enhanced Each dignified performance Skillful was her gait Now older she Lives peacefully Moves slowly to create An open fire Of … Continue reading →

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Song for Ireland

Posted on March 12, 2026 by Rex Tyler

The classes in the the colleges Are moving To an African majority we hear Where are all the lovely Irish people Apparently a lot now live in fear Dancing in the aisles is how they do it Apparently migration is … Continue reading →

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Living in the Mountains

Posted on March 11, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Living in the extremes Where winds have strength beyond their means Roaring is the theme one hears The gurgling rush of the screaming streams Rushing headlong over rocks Each blast comes through the trees Living in the mountains Can leave … Continue reading →

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Migrants and wild life

Posted on March 3, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Growing conjecture That wild swans and ducks And geese may fall victims To migrants who feel Apart from the free meals they Claim from our taxes They supplement them With wild swans and geese The king in his castle Must … Continue reading →

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