Category Archives: A country tale

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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Chairman Mao and the Sparrows

Posted on February 25, 2026 by Rex Tyler

When asked most people Will tell you the worst disease around Is Cancer it kills huge numbers In purgatory they are drowned Chairman Mao in 1958 decided He Would murder every Sparrow And do it avidly An so he told … Continue reading →

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Stormy

Posted on February 21, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Snowdonia’s Mountains Protect us The winds threaten Often, and we Who live in the various areas Perhaps near an estuary Suffer the wintry vagaries The menacing thunderous roar That comes into the stone houses vistas A banshee that few dare … Continue reading →

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It’s against the law in the U.K. to smash piglets onto the concrete floor

Posted on February 20, 2026 by Rex Tyler

It is universal Pigs being sensitive More so than farmers Profit based tropes Prepared to annihilate Beautiful pigs Murder their babies Born with true hopes Often though smashed On the concrete brains bleeding Little legs wiggling Nerve endings they We’re … Continue reading →

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Pork and the pigs that enable it

Posted on February 18, 2026 by Rex Tyler

A crusading spirit From activists show Moments of chivalry And a pig farm on show Over the wall witness to their plight Long suffering piglets Crowded in pens Covered in shit With lots of their friends They piss and they … Continue reading →

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Discarded fishing tackle

Posted on February 18, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Discarded fishing lines Upon river banks Anglers they call themselves Many are planks They don’t use their common sense Discarding shot Discarding fishing gear They do it a lot Even in my time In the countryside Bait boxes maggots Where … Continue reading →

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Fly tippers and littering

Posted on February 9, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Acidic blood There is a flood Dirty diets everywhere Death by meat Processed oils Hydrogenation A conflagration Processed flesh Nitrites And filthy habits Near and far Rubbish droppers in our woods Publicly they scar The shared environment

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Hunting Foxes even if cameras are trained on them

Posted on February 7, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Their arrogance is obvious They have this point of view That those of us who will never hunt Have nothing much to do but spoil their considerable pleasure Of chasing wild life sick And being seen as gentry Whilst actually … Continue reading →

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Victims of fox hunting

Posted on February 7, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Nasty bits of work Whether horse or hound Fox lovers are sworn at And foxes if they are found Are torn to bits and harried This is what hunts do Harm our wonderful wild life

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Hen Harriers

Posted on February 7, 2026 by Rex Tyler

A beautiful bird the Hen Harrier a small bird of prey Seen over marshes and grasslands Intensely persecuted they Found on driven grouse moors Often gliding low meadow pipits and voles they eat

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Females and compassion

Posted on February 7, 2026 by Rex Tyler

For a female to treat another female In such an uncomfortable way It actually and honestly sickens me To share this my dismay At realising farming of dairy shouldn’t be For its Sacrificing kindness for profit actually

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Poor cows

Posted on February 7, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Towel jack COW restraint Imagine the picture that does paint Prevents retaliation From the cow So no Salvation Enslaved and restrained Bloody well drained Right across the Nation

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Killing animals in slaughterhouses

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Animals have hearts and minds Godly creations they All well aware From sight and sound What’s happening to them the day They are carted off for slaughter The smells the blood the noise Being manhandled hearing others Is not one … Continue reading →

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The Magic Lantern Cinema

Posted on February 3, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Once a row of tumbledown cottages Then an assembly rooms did stand There since 1893 Until ofcourse they planned To open a small cinema In 1930 they Created one to serve the town Of Tywyn along the way With its … Continue reading →

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The Lynx

Posted on January 31, 2026 by Rex Tyler

farmers and land owners Can’t see beyond Their noses alas Being not very fond Of the idea of predators walking about Predating on deer and boar There’s no doubt We need them, their solitary And what they will do Is … Continue reading →

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The non passerine SWIFTS

Posted on January 31, 2026 by Rex Tyler

A visit from Africa Who comes back eVery year Two toes forward Two toes backward It is very clear They own a dedication To flight and all it holds Long pointed wings Short fork tails A high pitched scream That … Continue reading →

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Kelly bronze

Posted on January 28, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Supposedly the ultimate Turkey The one the top chefs choose The likes of Jamie Oliver Transparency good news That appears the story They put around, but we Have watched a detailed video Which proves it’s not to be Or taken … Continue reading →

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Cathedral City

Posted on January 27, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Joey Carbstrong visited That Saputo Dairy place Supplying milk to markets Apparently disgrace In some of their facilities Cruelty was seen Cows being whipped with plastic tubes And prodded they had been With something in their rectums Punching and slapping … Continue reading →

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Animals killed by decapitation

Posted on January 27, 2026 by Rex Tyler

25/6/2015 a goat happened in Lincolnshire 7/7/2019 two ducks. As above Recently a dog as above Found at clay pole in Lincolnshire For the walker who found The animal It’s head sadly adrift Must have been upsetting Who does this … Continue reading →

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Compassion in its truest form

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Vulpes Lagopus the White Fox The Arctic tundra it’s domain Born to be there With its dens With its manure It defends The leaching out of nutrients With remnants of its prey It rebalances the godly earth Fertility each day … Continue reading →

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Frost on roof tiles 9.40am 14/1/2026

Posted on January 14, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Frost on roof tiles Melt on stem The sun is rising Like a gem Of auric Crystal we can see A glowing sky A mystery Above the mountains Across the green Forests weeping We all have been Through those great … Continue reading →

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The outline

Posted on January 13, 2026 by Rex Tyler

The outline of the mountains It changes every day Almost every moment That’s all I can say Dancing with the clouds above It’s tresses auburn red Forests proud and beautiful Forever in my head And all this from my window … Continue reading →

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Awelfa’s feeling it tonight

Posted on January 11, 2026 by Rex Tyler

There’s a roaring And the chimney’s Kind of howling The trees are really feeling it Tonight It just feels like a boat out on the ocean What has really happened to the light There is anger in the mountains Gusting … Continue reading →

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