Category Archives: Death and Dying

Dead flesh

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Rex Tyler

Spoilage caused by death and dying tissues some call it ageing others see it differently deterioration calmly seemingly decay and decompose go bad and fester degrade devalue ravage and defile consuming dead flesh some call it meat so as to … Continue reading →

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“Ndakasi” RIP

Posted on October 10, 2021 by Rex Tyler

I am now at the Rainbow Bridge sparkling water lovely flowers Bird song cascades of bright light for hours and hours and hours genuinely beautiful enduring through and through i am missing the humans and Sabyinyo too Virunga is now … Continue reading →

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Wood chip madness

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Rex Tyler

unconscientiousness and falsehoods insincerity the villainous and good for nothing true venality a century of flourishing of uprightness to the cause replaced by the chicanery that tragically won’t pause vast forests of greenery air providing wealth a constancy of … Continue reading →

Posted in Abandonment, activism, Animal Rights, Australia and the epic journeys, Breathing and pollution, Death and Dying, Environmental Poems, Indigenous People, Kangaroos, Koala's, Politics, Trees, Trees our silent friends, WASTE EXPORTS, Wild plants some call weeds bot not I, Wildness is our friend | Leave a comment

Feelings and wildlife

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Rex Tyler

As protectors it is concerning That binoculars are made And targeted at hunters An extension of trade Broadening the market Commercially feels wise But feelings have to play a part We have to realise We shouldn’t become detached from life … Continue reading →

Posted in Abandonment, activism, Animal Rights, Business Testimonials, Death and Dying, Duty of care was never there, EMF and animals sensitivity to it (stories from around the world), Environmental Poems, Explorers and Visionaries, Hunting and Poaching ( includes canned hunts), slaughterhouses and operatives, The greatest disease of all arrogance coupled with the ignorance of life, Thoughts/rambles/dreams/whatever | Leave a comment

Stone Henge

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Rex Tyler

Come with me be wild and free The Druid orders constancy Robed and well Each ancestral spell Cast diligently The great plain we see The chalk below And earthworks deem Well trodden paths Where rituals seem The ancient emboldened corvidae … Continue reading →

Posted in Abandonment, Activism in art, Death and Dying, Emotional Poems, The Sabbats and the old craft, thoughts of friends who have passed on, Thoughts/rambles/dreams/whatever | Leave a comment

Digital hunters the utmost in cowardice

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Rex Tyler

The inevitable is happening In what is a sick and awful world The hunters who I view of with reluctance And unwillingness for where they have been hurled A shuddering loathing need Of murdering animals I grimace, at the thought … Continue reading →

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Babies unwanted, Egregious

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Rex Tyler

7 billion male chicks Are slaughtered every year Some with inept gas its true But most the conveyor of fear As males cannot lay eggs They are the innocent that must die Chirping very joyously To the macerator, high Chattering … Continue reading →

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The Night Stalker

Posted on January 22, 2021 by Rex Tyler

Two decades on death row San Quentin his spot It was Cancer that ended his Reign and he got The seed of the Devil Inside him and he Lived with his thoughts For his eternity The City of Angels The … Continue reading →

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Trunyan an Island in Bali

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Rex Tyler

An island where the death are laid Ephemerality Alone perhaps the eternal rest An open cemetery Not buried Left to lie at rest With eyes no longer seeing The sky above A phantom state An epitaphic being Relics of those … Continue reading →

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My dear friend Alan

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Rex Tyler

You were alone When it happened Resolute, dreaming perhaps A lapse to the norm Just feeling warm A solution the kind that just wraps Itself in a limbo of being Oblivious almost of things Abstracted and taken Away in that … Continue reading →

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Cameroon’s most precious resource

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Rex Tyler

We are selling ourselves short What is an irreverence The great aged forests Priceless if sold Trees of great age And a wealth of wild treasures Gifted by the gods And right off the page When It comes to wonders … Continue reading →

Posted in Abandonment, Animal Rights, ARROGANCE AND DIEOFFS, birds and the environment, Death and Dying, Elephants, Emotional Poems, Environmental Poems, Extinction, Monkeys and Primates, palm oil, Pangolin trade in exotic species, Trees, Wildness is our friend | Leave a comment

To three of my friends the willing the courageous warriors

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Rex Tyler

To Ann to Kat to Lash Three willing warrior souls Nurses with dispositions With totally leaning roles Whose eagerness to serve to care, to love, really to be Totally dedicated to work ungrudgingly The nation is in lockdown Such violence … Continue reading →

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Deena

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Rex Tyler

Don’t pain yourself By how you feel My darling sister I can reveal A humbleness a tranquility That feels like it’s washing over me. A journey beckons, and so I Have integrity, and I can fly Unsullied dear by those … Continue reading →

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Clutching at straws

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Rex Tyler

We sit together Whilst all around The crackling heat The dry parched ground Such bad theatre No dialogue The final curtain Perhaps the dog And the primates cower The Indigenous too The tragedy Is coming true Impersonating The acrobat The … Continue reading →

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ROOPKUND LAKE

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Rex Tyler

In the Uttarakhand state of India Thirty feet wide and six feet deep A high altitude glacial lake exists At the bottom of mountains steep In 1942 a British Forest Guard Stumbled on the lake and took a look The … Continue reading →

Posted in Death and Dying, Environmental Poems, Indigenous People, Monarch butterflies and milkweed(dogbane family), The Sabbats and the old craft | Leave a comment

Those poor pigs

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Rex Tyler

A farm in Wales That truly pales Into neglect and horror they Extinguished the good And so rarely should Have created a life A meaningless place A senseless cell Filth and disgrace Bedlam and a chaotic state Unruly and lawless … Continue reading →

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Grenfell

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Seventy two souls Came back floating Grenfell must have happened two Years ago There but for the grace of god The story true A fire washed everywhere Wiped out floor after floor The cladding there Was a death trap Not … Continue reading →

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Julian

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Skulduggery exists The perfidiousness creates The frame-up of the century Such Hypocrisy conflates Truthfulness and honour With the sanctimonious way Of misquoting and misinforming And making people pay Inventing pure falsehoods Wholly insincere Betrayal and duplicity So prophetic and so … Continue reading →

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It’s coming to binefar in Huesca

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Rex Tyler

In pursuit of profits Whilst relinquishing good sense Filing away compassion and the real suspense A slaughterhouse is coming And death trusts everyday 3 million pigs will be slaughtered Every year or so they say Increasing up to double that … Continue reading →

Posted in Abandonment, activism, Animal rape, Animal Rights, Animal sacrifice, animals used for food, Death and Dying, Environmental Poems, Pigs | Leave a comment

The silent scream

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Rex Tyler

The last soliloquy At a point Of lesser evils than before A balladeer of ocean currents A sonneteer of expressed fear Landed from a net of nylon Packed in ice and thrust upon A fine display of ocean fishes But … Continue reading →

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The sickness of ocean users

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Rex Tyler

We have seen the beginning How long to the end The emergence of madness The countdown my friend The embryonic nature of man The light of day And our wonderful plan The end time is coming Hearts ceasing eyes closing … Continue reading →

Posted in Abandonment, activism, Animal Rights, Death and Dying, Environmental Poems, Ocean, OCEANS And water courses, Whales and Sea Shepherd | Leave a comment

The most terrifying poem ever written

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Rex Tyler

Mother writhing Slaughtered for The burger joint Yea up the street The the “cow and burger”a great place Where plastic plates and bottles greet The frantic dossers Wanting more Beef the grief For evermore With lots of lettuce All of … Continue reading →

Posted in Abandonment, activism, Animal Rights, CAFO's and factory farms, Calves and Cows and Bulls, Death and Dying, Fish farming and itsbimplications, Five G and LED street lighting and tree felling | 2 Comments

A passing

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The concept of the loss of someone Hacks into the heart Whether an animal understands the finality To start Analysing grief As a palpable concern For me is without substance But I feel that I learn From animals that grieving … Continue reading →

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Gaza from a childs point of view

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Rex Tyler

For children living now There is no future Life is day to day And nothing more Annihilation The destruction of your way of life All around you really blood and gore Unimaginable horror At your bedside Nightmares are the stories … Continue reading →

Posted in activism, ARROGANCE AND DIEOFFS, ccorporate America, Child exploitation, children and their plight in a adult world, Death and Dying, war zones | 2 Comments

I was not there

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Rex Tyler

I was not there But have woken up To the carnage of that day It was swept into my psyche Leaving us all to pay Regard to the heroism And the hatred everywhere I woke up screaming to myself I … Continue reading →

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“Presley”

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Rex Tyler

We all have different given names Its repetition that we know It reminds us of our destiny And within that name we grow I was known as “Presley” The King of rock and roll I learned to move my body … Continue reading →

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PARIS

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Rex Tyler

PARIS A city engulfed in blood Tonight behold an evil flood Of terrorist activity Planned and administered wickedly Repulsiveness and great clouds Of woe A disfigurement a haggard flow Of evil struck down One by one The BATACLAN hostages were … Continue reading →

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Jetsum of our own wrath

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Rex Tyler

In the salty wrath of the ocean Tousled bodies lie Children full of hope and joy There before us die Why we ask ourselves those of us Caring of these scenes Because we interfered with them We used our grand … Continue reading →

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The after life

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Rex Tyler

When our animals cross over Do you know where they go To a sort of animal heaven Or there is nothing to show For their own sweet incarnation They came to teach us, we Can learn so very much from … Continue reading →

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Suicides why could it be an option for returning war hero’s

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Rex Tyler

Imagine the torture of each human soul what goes on out there beyond our control what the eyes see the heart can’t contain what the mind knows only, the insane can imagine the hurt can live with this woe can … Continue reading →