Category Archives: Activism in art

Notre Dame

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Rex Tyler

A conundrum exists In so many hearts The twin towers suggests Something more Watching the images The exposition The prejudices In the raw A great church Is burning What misunderstanding The fire going Against the flow 800 year oaks dont … Continue reading →

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April jasmine an opera played out in silence

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Jasmine green A ballerina Emerging from the stem Pirouette’s whose golden fingers Hold a future gem A starlit curl of blossom A scent to captivate Wind and rain and gentleness Resulting from the wait The honest truth abundantly As myriad … Continue reading →

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The ancient men

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Dreamtime from the wild imaginations Inventiveness the empathy of soul Insight in an imagery of paintings Rhapsodical and grace like their control Ancestral eyes are peering from the heavens Fabled faces sun drenched wrinkled so Make believe is everything we … Continue reading →

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Minding their own business

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Rex Tyler

A great big orange sky A golden sun just starts to fall Ox peckers giving rise to flight Hunting comes the call A watering hole And loads of tracks A half an hour or more It could be fifty yards … Continue reading →

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A poem for a twitter friend from Avalon

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Rex Tyler

The woods have many varied splendours Hiding in the shadows where Foxes and badgers voles and shrews And even the illusive Hare Whose magick is all supposing Bestower of such light Whose ebulliance and affection Can be observed at night … Continue reading →

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Try me

Posted on March 16, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Why I say try me Humanity Has a golden rule The crusader we be With a missionary spirit A conscience to pry And To be more benevolent Which surely is why To use obligation To forgive and forget To use … Continue reading →

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Arachnia

Posted on January 12, 2019 by Rex Tyler

To the instinctive weaver I pledge my heart and soul Designer and creator Whose silks suggest a role Scaffoldings of tensile strength Suggestions of a way Perhaps to attract the opposite sex To follow and to play Attached along this … Continue reading →

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SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romontus)

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Government of the people Particularly of ROME A mind of great philosophy Where Romans call their home A city of great variation Artistic to the fore Where laws are made But are broken By the Romans who are sure The … Continue reading →

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Carracci

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Rex Tyler

“The loves of the gods” Above us Extending with great soul Annibale Carracci Took on this splendid role It was known as mannerism A technique of artisty 11 years of dedication And perfect synergy The frescoe’s they were beautiful Immaculate … Continue reading →

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Huntress

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Rex Tyler

She hails out of Kentucky From Nippa I was told For a couple of thousand dollars A black giraffe quite old Unable now to mate, we hear So a prime target she Stalked the poor old bugger And shot it … Continue reading →

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A baby saved

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Rex Tyler

A baby pure and simple Unable still to run As feisty as the day is long His coat just looks home spun Just saved from the slaughterhouse Imagine that will you? The angels came and stopped them Killing him yes … Continue reading →

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Agaricus fly a magickal tale for Jan Vlonk

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Rex Tyler

In the far off shrouds Where great mists and clouds Were born of forests dark In September they Where green ivy’s climb And where nature gifts Do stray Under Birch and Pine We can see a sign Of the magickal … Continue reading →

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Helena’s Oak

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Into the underworld with me A tree of life so avidly Breathing light And rooted stock Into this meadow good and green Not only Helena has seen Such resplendence And adorning power And a leap of faith Born of the … Continue reading →

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The King

Posted on September 15, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Inspired by my lovely friend Maria The king can bring us anything And can wing it for a few With his glorious mane Has so much to gain When like this he looks at you In his myriad of colours … Continue reading →

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Kanga RULE

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Rex Tyler

This being The case The great human race Can never keep pace With the ROO Being too far ahead Its true lots are dead But idealism won through An undenible fact So many react Stubbornly brutishly They Have been soldiers … Continue reading →

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Monet and his en plein air

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Prolific Such exuberance With his riot of colour he Created an impressionistic True philosophy Boudin was his mentor Who Encouraged him To see things that were real To really see and to really be In effect the honest deal He … Continue reading →

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Japan and African Ivory

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Yahoo Japan is very very lenient With trade on ivory sales spparently Despite Rakuten closing down its platform YAhoo could not care less it seems to me The elephant should be much more respected The criminals we know are everywhere … Continue reading →

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Tongue tied

Posted on July 20, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Tongues are very sensitive And horses think so too So tying them under the chin Is not the thing to do Its all about control Riders like to interfere But clearly its an invasion Of ones freedom And that is … Continue reading →

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MASTABA

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Rex Tyler

It stands there In all its glory Is that the word to use 7000 oil drums Are there any clues To why its there Christo and Jean Claude Those two apparently Created this piece of art For all of us … Continue reading →

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Mythago Morris

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Fantasy tradition Just listen and you will hear The tales of myth and magick As the dancing folk appear Clad there in black tatters Old England border style Purveyors of great stories Just you listen for a while Characterization Narration … Continue reading →

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“Faithful unto death”

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Rex Tyler

What rationality could horses expect Engaged in war Made to fight an enemy And be cut down for sure Up against the machine guns And the enemy who would aim At the horses everytime As history did claim Their fear … Continue reading →

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Aunty Ro Mudjin a pal o’ mine

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The existence of creation The importance of its worth The undeniable history Played around Mother Earth The immortal the enduring The sum and substance we Share with the perpetual The complex and the free Tangible and solid Grounded everywhere Heartbreaking … Continue reading →

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A Panopticon

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Who was the many eyed Giant? Panoptes by name he was called A Jeremy Benson Smacks of control His system of design clearly schooled Prison apparently given to watchmen Watching but not being seen Based on deception Not the reception … Continue reading →

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Elberton and its Guide Stones

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Some 750 feet above sea level They The granite monoliths stand tall On any given day Looking down upon us Since 1980 they Command a true expression The Guide Stones So they say Someobody called Christian Paid for them to … Continue reading →

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WE can get through said the Kangaroo

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Rex Tyler

We are rhe shadows of long before Our feet pressed soft on the red dust floor Long before the British came And generated the huge blame game In the Pleistocene the canine roo’s Flesh eating macropods the clues Upon the … Continue reading →

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The forgotten ones

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Forgotten children Forgotten by who Forgotten by us Or forgotten by you They came in the daylight My daughter they took Because she was brown With a whitish look SHe was only a baby Tossed into their truck That is … Continue reading →

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Australia’s forgotten people

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The drone of the didge And the clap of the sticks Where the termites exist The goanna licks His lips giving thanks For the bird he has eaten The people have power But they have been beaten Down by the … Continue reading →

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An Aboriginie

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Invisible only To those who won’t feel Those guardians Who have been ever so real Creators of truth In a land dry and old Where the music is drawn From the stories untold Their culture was vast Their totems were … Continue reading →

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Aunty Ro

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The right of the underdogs in this world In the massive arena where each is hurled There are warrior angels who do their thing And safeguard the voiceless and try to bring Some sanity back instinctively Use understanding and try … Continue reading →

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Sick zoo’s in Thailand

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The continued artlessness And unworldly bias Is conflating zoology Now with a way Of increasing profit With recourse to care And abusing the animals Resident there Great apes Orangutans Persons of the forest Arboreal apes Who live in tHe trees … Continue reading →

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