Category Archives: Hedgehogs

Slow down through the forest

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Rex Tyler

Another problem by foot down And speeding Through a dark forest Or quiet road at night You might hit a baby A pussy a crossing At least stop and check out Don’t leave us to die We also live here … Continue reading →

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Be vegan

Posted on November 16, 2024 by Rex Tyler

If the crab was a dog The crab eating fools Elsewhere there are dog eating Cat eating ghouls Cow rape and kidnap And slaughter and pain So many animals Dying in vain For stomachs and leather and feathers And skin … Continue reading →

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Let’s liberate the animals always

Posted on August 24, 2024 by Rex Tyler

Animal liberation The right thing to do Be kind to every living soul That’s the sentiment for you Hearts and souls And loving ways Are what it’s all about Be a better human And avoid the ugly rout Animals feel … Continue reading →

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Definitely not our KING

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Rex Tyler

For the king to bring his awfulness To the foxes table He Doesn’t like the squirrels either Those souls running free Cruelty to animals, the fox the badgers they Make him a bloody patron Of the RSPCA A sick world … Continue reading →

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For the ignorant boy

Posted on April 29, 2024 by Rex Tyler

For the ignorant boy It was easy to kill The creature that sat On the top of the hill There in the grass With his shoe he did smash The creature lay squashed Life, then death in a flash God … Continue reading →

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In the land of the Giants

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Rex Tyler

In the land of the giants For Hedgehogs you see We live in your world Surprisingly It’s awfully dangerous Because we are small We walk very slowly We do as a rule Humanity sadly Seldom does share So We the … Continue reading →

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Richard Drax Cracks

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Rex Tyler

With ideas of this nature The Tories will see Their so called support Diminish The key to sense To a consciousness To natural calm Is to respect the wild souls See they don’t come to harm

Posted in Abandonment, activism, Animal Rights, animals used for food, Badgers, Bats, Beavers, birds and the environment, Duty of care was never there, Fox Hunting, foxes, HARES And red grouse, Hedgehogs, Mice and rodents, Minks, MOLES, Otters, Rabbits, Ravens and crows, Red and fallow deers trophies, Red grouse, Red Kite, Red squirrels, wild birds, Wild boars, Wild Deers, Wildness is our friend | Leave a comment

Our wild life

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Rex Tyler

It’s tragic in so many ways That some folk do believe They have the right to kill wildlife Seemingly to achieve A sterile place for their businesses Badgers they must go Foxes they are vermin Squirrels too, high Ho Weasels … Continue reading →

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Dead exports

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Rex Tyler

The stench of anger of nervousness Unflinchingly we carry stress Loaded aboard this mighty ship And into the hold we soon lose grip We shit ourselves yes one by one The stench of sailing has begun Live exports really should … Continue reading →

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Hedgehogs how sad we are

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Rex Tyler

Glyphosate and Slug Pellets Are not a nice hors d’oeuvre Maybe they kill the wretched slugs But none of us deserve The outcome really, hurting Such impropriety It’s transgression in the monent And illegitimacy It’s also most discriminatory As many … Continue reading →

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Harry the Hedgehog

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Rex Tyler

Hedge hog harry The famous little hog Who creeps about the woods and vales and sleeps under a log Anywhere there are dahlias there are earwigs wiggly sods They don’t get in your ears though and do have there own … Continue reading →

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Lead toxicity and the hunters

Posted on August 25, 2023 by Rex Tyler

Wild birds and wild animals Shot guns everywhere The use of lead is terrible It proves that we don’t care Fired into the sky all over Where ever the bullets fall Or enter animal bodies They contaminate as a rule … Continue reading →

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Our friends the Hedgehogs

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Rex Tyler

Spiny And golden And tiny And cute Known as a Hog Never a brute A small ball of loveliness Aching to be hugged Never mugged Enigmatic they be A veneer of deception Hidden perhaps But honestly folks The nicest of … Continue reading →

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Survival

Posted on September 23, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Hedgehogs wee souls in my garden Hiding under piles of leaves Clearly it is warmer there His spiny coat and will achieves Much in life consuming critters who may pass In our world where they are hurled Humanity is vast … Continue reading →

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Mrs Hedgehog

Posted on July 2, 2022 by Rex Tyler

On the way to Rollrights for solstice late at night we came upon diversions and saw in the moonlight A darling  little hedgehog Just crossing the street we stayed and watched her safe passage and it was such a treat … Continue reading →

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Badgers and government

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Rex Tyler

wildness is a quality of life and we have here Foxes  Badgers Weasels Squirrels yes and Deer all around us  rabbits Hares we know they improve  the fabric and seldom do they show nocturnal many of them having to compete … Continue reading →

Posted in Abandonment, activism, Animal Rights, Badgers, Emotional Poems, Forests and wild places, Fox Hunting, foxes, HARES And red grouse, Hedgehogs, Hedgerows, Hunting and Poaching ( includes canned hunts), Pheasant shooting, Rabbits | Leave a comment

Often taken for granted

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Mid way through October And often what we take For granted are the leaves Thats rustle and that shake The veracity of Nature A compendium so clear Colours changing everywhere From bloodlessness to cheer Flush and blush and glow and … Continue reading →

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Blue dress saga 23

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Rex Tyler

They were blind  they were helpless their little spines soft 3 tiny babies  we held them aloft our eye sight was not that great we don’t see the light in my compost heap palace and all this in spite of … Continue reading →

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Insufficient evidence

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Insufficient evidence That’s the judgement here A lack of understanding Of the foresight and the fear We who are the wild ones Birds and mammals we Will suffer as life gets tougher Than we every hoped it could be An … Continue reading →

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Unfeeling is it an illness who can say

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Hardness as a rock A piece of concrete or cement Shatterproof and fortified Hardly heaven sent Something to be kicked along Without a vital force Meaningless composure Nothing at its source Can we describe Those torturers Who apparently Can come … Continue reading →

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Woodland

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Ashridge draws its splendour From the woodland Where the mammals play And foresters complain The damage sometimes done to trees By deer and also squirrels Every day their plea’s There is a healthy balance We must take a broader view … Continue reading →

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Heyghoge

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Rex Tyler

I be the hedgerow rover A spiny fellow who Frequents the thorny Hazels and the berried holly too I am pretty slow at running Dreaming is my thing Nocturnally I get about To the countryside I bring A ball of … Continue reading →

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Hyoscyamus Niger

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Rex Tyler

On chalk or sand It sinks its roots The taste of salt It feels and needs Its stems will thicken And branch and grasp A pale green hair strewn Malodorous ask Culpeper talked of Saturn’s Folly From Now its flowers … Continue reading →

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Woodland friends

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Little souls of the woodland ways Entities that always raise A stir within the forests dark Small ofcourse but who leave their mark Confrontations ofcourse they be And originality Deers may clip the seedlings trying Rabbits squirrels voles and mice … Continue reading →

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The forest of angels

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Behold the timeless forest Great drama we may see The players clad in their own skins Coming out to be Themselves among the sentinels The dancing spirits who Shake their leaves like tambourines To the beat thats often true There … Continue reading →

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Hedgehog

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Rex Tyler

I may be a simple fellow From your garden maybe so But i do have a place in life I thought you ought to know Its an ignorant misnomer Designed to carry strife For the victimization of an innocent Going … Continue reading →

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