Category Archives: A country tale

A song thrush on my front gate

Posted on June 14, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Standing in the kitchen Cooking some brown rice Added a tin of organic garden peas It’s looking nice Noticed on my front gate A song thrush olive brown Sitting in the sunshine It’s back toward the town A rather rotund … Continue reading →

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Antirrhinum {linaria Vulgaris}

Posted on June 14, 2026 by Rex Tyler

A wild flower in my garden Seems to like to grow On pebbles on the hillsides But also as we know Is grown in town gardens Know as the Snap Dragon On disturbed ground Makes a show A herbaceous perennial … Continue reading →

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Animals are the farmers family I don’t think

Posted on June 13, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Who’d want to be in family of farmers How they treat the animals Harmers not charmers Torturing stealing unfeeling as hell Go into the barn take a whiff of that smell

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Flags no thank you

Posted on June 13, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Banned from being patriotic you couldn’t make that up well not with a sound mind The St George’s cross came from Italy It protected our ships in war The disrespect of history really what’s it all for We know we … Continue reading →

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Cygnet so loved by its mother

Posted on June 12, 2026 by Rex Tyler

He saw them He felt that tear in his eye It rolled down his cheek He felt that deep sigh He had to endeavour To rescue the birds Otherwise he would Forever have been lost for words

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Meat eaters say it’s not our fault

Posted on June 12, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Don’t blame us people Because we eat meat We realise animals die It’s a treat for us and our family Better that we Stand up and be counted For humility Most of us don’t have it We’ve given up that … Continue reading →

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Delicious pink roses

Posted on June 7, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Awelfa’s pink roses Hang over the arbours Facing the wrath of the Mountainous air A feminine gender Under planet Venus Their element water Deities Hathor Powers Love and healing Delicate petals All very revealing Love Divination A tea made of … Continue reading →

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Cuckoo Bread (Plantago}

Posted on June 7, 2026 by Rex Tyler

It’s gender it be Feminine It’s element is earth Healing and protection powers It has a degree of worth In your shoes will help the feet Overcome weariness, and Its roots kept in your pocket Protects against snakebites Which is … Continue reading →

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White mans footprint

Posted on June 7, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Around my house at Awelfa Lots of wild plants grow Probably planted by angels and faeries As we know Also known as plantain broadleaves And ribwort The leaves are high in vitamin k Edible I thought Make a poultice with … Continue reading →

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Sixth of June

Posted on June 6, 2026 by Rex Tyler

A sky of lumpy porridge A Misty mountain top The bushes dancing every which way Their gyrations will not stop It is early Summer Who’d be a seagull Out across the estuary A loner The nights dull The early flowers … Continue reading →

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Stinger

Posted on June 5, 2026 by Rex Tyler

The bee is unwinding Trying to be Free from the stinger He sent into me Potentially death Sorrowful sighs He twists and he turns Like one of the guys If I can manage The pain I must try And save … Continue reading →

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The so called hunter killer of the hunts hounds

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Faithful hounds who broke the law Who chased the foxes And did ignore Temptation sadly and let some go Let some fox cubs kind of grow Some horrid shooter took his gun And shot the hounds which is what he’d … Continue reading →

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Issues around shooters of wild birds

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Training pigeons to leap about As decoys to hunt friends This is hunting in the west And really what it sends Out into the universe Is evil through and through Those who shoot our feathered friends For fun need checking … Continue reading →

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Sparrow boys and girls

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Each morning at Dawn I pull back the curtains The passeridae dear little beings The wonderful sparrows Exposing their need Of seeds grains and insects Having their breakfast My action causes them To then just succeed In flying away All … Continue reading →

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Rural arrogance Rural Ignorance Rural Torture Rural agony

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Rex Tyler

These so called marvellous breeding places Pheasants and Partridges Get to be Made to lay millions of eggs Have chicks it’s for the shooters, we Hear them clucking on about Amazing standards and short cuts none Looked after in their … Continue reading →

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Sows get no chance in love

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Sows are raped By horny bores Locked in crates Down on all fours No love just ramparts Female sadly Why are they treated so badly 🐖

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Who’d be a mother cow

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Dairies are seats of great violence And pain Where mothers are raped Undergoing such pain They carry their babies Secured in a place Covered in excrement On their little face Taken away So that humanity can then buy its milk … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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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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