Category Archives: Hedgerows

All mothers pine for their families

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Rex Tyler

The chilling scream of a vixen In the earth her cubs all blind The hounds the rounds Drowned out the sounds We mentally unwind The terrier men are digging Their iniquitous refrain A pestilence of awfulness And a damnable disdain … Continue reading →

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Foxy that’s me

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Woodland farmland wetland for me Rabbits and rodents I think are tasty Frogs birds a worm or 2 Carrion might Be something to bury Off the road killed at night I be a fox a red boy that’s me I … Continue reading →

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It’s nuts you know

Posted on December 6, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Hazels grow in England In Hertfordshire where I Live in many a hedgerow Foraged food no lie Why go then for cashew nuts To make the milk per se All those toxins all those food miles And the workers pay

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Glastonbury looking down off the TOR

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Rex Tyler

An aura of beautiful flora Extended by light and a glorious glow Clearness and clarity Diaphanous parity Topaz and amber you know Primrose and lemon verbena A chameleon’s back we can see The TOR is picked out by the magic … Continue reading →

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Poppies

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Poppies quietly dormantly rest, under the soil where everything’s best warmth possibly and darkness too Time omni present It’s where the seeds do Their magic they sprout in the fullness of time Evoking the spirit to Upwardly climb Blushingly red … 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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Holly berries

Posted on September 18, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Out in Oxfordshire yesterday Peace ruled the roost Hamlets we passed through Getting a boost From the rural commitment The historic past The meandering hedgerows And the Holly that cast All those crimson berries Set now to last Till Yule

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Fireweed Peering

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Fireweed peering through the window rocking on a sun kissed eve tall and slender ever tender let us send them clouds of make believe red and yellow green and blue purple diadems come true rainbow crystals attract the light refract … 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 →

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Rosemary lilac bits

Posted on April 15, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Rosemary began its flowering battle with the seasons in February,and today in April such profusions every branch festooned with lilac tufts and bounteous in the sun dancing mesmerising glamour titivated pretty pretty wit and brightness slapstick custard pie such fun … Continue reading →

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Alchemilla Vulgaris

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Rex Tyler

A rather pretty low growing plant Whose name suggests  and does Bring magic  back into our lives With a promised buzz its gender it be feminine Venus its planet too Love and all its potions This little soul  rings true … Continue reading →

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Rubus 3

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Rex Tyler

A Rose by any other name a trailing perennial, she grows well with abundance its how we all could be She was  given a truthers spell in her second year bears fruit with barbs that signify caution at her root … Continue reading →

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Rubus

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Rex Tyler

she can never be humbled With her  thorns everywhere over tall fences with inches to spare hedgerows and secret paths gasping for air we are best rewarded by seeing her there Rubus Fruticosus far and away a more spellbinding wench … Continue reading →

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July

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Rex Tyler

July a pasty sky no wind to speak of But its dry cherry leaves collectively certainly some red as ripened strawberries on burnished boughs a sunlit trunk a fuschia fully greened up red stems Jasmine  budding Rosemary Sparrows nesting seemingly. … Continue reading →

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Red kites

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Rex Tyler

A beholder a viewer a sentinel who searches the  ground for the carrion you must expect their   due calmness inscrutably they soar in their circles serene so to say.   they resign themselves to philosophically to assuage all their … Continue reading →

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Brainwashing animals to retrieve corpses of other animals

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Rex Tyler

A good idea For, for me its wrong GUN Dogs trained or brainwashed With training until they be Outside their own bodies And their true psyche Making animals believe They are out as observers To watch and retrieve The corpses … Continue reading →

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Changes

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Importing foreign plants Into our countries Its big business of course It is but we Are arrogantly altering Environments and insect life Desires and really all that subtlety Natures blueprint really shows soecifics Preference, for soil types And our special … Continue reading →

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An arrogance perhaps

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Human beings studying the wild souls Sometimes they Come up with fresh new ideas That blow wildness away Charles Darwin talked Of domestication syndrome And we hear that foxes That are now city dwellers Apparently it’s clear They go through … Continue reading →

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Buttercups

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Buttercups and daisies the little knotted rings children  made for mothers Ranuncular  he sings  beautifully the legend says this glossy yellow flower that grows in grassy meadows And captures solar power  this is chiefly to attract insects and to make … 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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A blue dress day introduction

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Rex Tyler

A blue dress day is coming And perceptibility Increases with great prominence For its where I want to be Walking quietly in the woods My field of vision clear Unmistakable sights to see An not an ounce of fear Tangible … Continue reading →

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DAWN

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Rex Tyler

My blue dress Every stitch is pure enchantment A night sky over a wild forest Where the tiniest bats Doth fly Walking slowly through a grove Brushing the ransoms green The wafting of earths aroma Adding to the scene Ahead … Continue reading →

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Behold

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Behold the feathered choristers Whose throats are full of song Ascertaining Nature now conducts Them all along Melodic and rhapsodic Peaceful and serene Joyous thus inducing ballads that have been In our minds and in our hearts Forever and a … Continue reading →

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Elderflowers

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Rex Tyler

creamy white crinoline Lace of desire Out in the hedgerows Sent to Inspire Loves growing near water Holds such dignity Ruled by the moon And grows vigorously It makes a good hedge With the Hawthorn as they Both enjoy Cherry … Continue reading →

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Galium Adarine the plant of many names

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Rex Tyler

A deftness and adroitness With resourceful ingenuity From Saxon times to now we see Goose grass growing frantically A weed tis said of hedgerows where Much has been said but few will share It’s cunning stance it’s mastery And it’s … Continue reading →

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Blue bells

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Lovers of light With a presence so true Like a beautiful swarm Like a great sea of blue Born out of ancientness The forest floor Lights up with colour More so than before Lovers of lime rich soils Flowering April … 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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Rubus Fruticosus

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Oft in the woods Your clutches trip Cut into shin The violent whip A searing tear A painful treat Your brambled heart Hardly discreet Blackberrying Such a pursuit Antiquity Did follow suit Its rambling thorns Did once exclaim And Tusser … Continue reading →

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The Hazel

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Rex Tyler

In early Spring we see the flowers Still leafless Tufts and catkins they Female and male The leaves serrated And heavily veined clear green To grey And yellow Hanging on for dear life Through late Autumn they The stems are … Continue reading →

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