Category Archives: A day in the life

Fujitsu

Posted on June 8, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Computer software Took us down Beat us up Called the clown Post office wallers Here and there Couldn’t balance the books Instant despair Years before negotiations Accounts and stuff complexity Post masters got caught up in shit So many broken … 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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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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They lied

Posted on June 6, 2026 by Rex Tyler

They lied It was so easy Henry fell In pain The police came They arrested him His sweet life Had been in vain A Sikh had stabbed him Such agony He couldn’t breathe He had lost his life No ambulance … Continue reading →

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He said he couldn’t breathe

Posted on June 6, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Every word out of their gob Was false they bloody knew An innocent was dying He had been stabbed through They of course played the racial card And the coppers bought it they Watched the innocent white man die On … Continue reading →

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“Sod off Syngenta”

Posted on June 6, 2026 by Rex Tyler

The 20th of May felt the Greenpeace dismay “Hallmark” the evil the vile Lambda Cyhalothrin A killer of Bees A terrible chemical It was a trial Of courage commitment 40 arrested Greenpeace did release Into those vested With what is … 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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Restore Britain with Rupert Lowe

Posted on June 5, 2026 by Rex Tyler

No forked tongue with Dear Rupert A leader through and through He says what the people feel It’s what we want to do Live in our real country Respect the family Love our countries way of life It’s where we … Continue reading →

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Henry Nowak

Posted on June 5, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Looks at his hands As white as snow “I have been stabbed I can’t breathe” As you know Please get an ambulance I need to be Treated I am dying So please help me Look at the cops hands In … Continue reading →

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Who would be a pig in a world of carnivores

Posted on June 5, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Imagine being an animal Living on a farm Feeling sick from the food you eat Of the medicines that harm A pig wants accomodation That’s clean I have to say They want to dump in a private place Not where … Continue reading →

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That’s no way to treat a Donkey

Posted on June 5, 2026 by Rex Tyler

Being ridden grotesquely Beating the beast Where’s your compassion Others may feast Their eyes on your cruelty This donkey feels The weight of your cane Which he quickly reveals Such a cruel nasty man Ignorant too Who should not be … 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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Gestation crates are torture chambers

Posted on June 2, 2026 by Rex Tyler

It was a man That designed this crate To save space in barns However sedate Pigs different sized pigs Get trapped there for they Cannot turn around at the end of the day A pregnant pig carrying she Will be … 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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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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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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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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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 →

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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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