Category Archives: Environmental Poems

Only 12 billion litres

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Rex Tyler

12 billion litres of potable water Thats all thats needed for a years worth of coal In a place where the water is scarce And the farmers appreciate water For it is their soul Adani the Indian conglommerate business From … Continue reading →

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Fireworks

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Burning Polluting Our personal space With imported chemicals Right in our face Its nothing but scandalous That is my view We destroy all thats good That is what we do We mimic a war With the cannons and sprays With … Continue reading →

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Patrick Kilonzo

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Rex Tyler

To have that disposition that inclination for Wild animals whom are suffering Who he never would ignore A man,a proper hero ungrudgingly displays Makes it his self-appointed task And a foundation lays Unasked and unbidden volantarily Hired a truck filled … Continue reading →

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The wolves

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Realness actuality Attested and how it should be Flesh and blood the wolves are there Sucking in the fresh cold air Romping through the tall high grass These animals seem to outclass So much substance in their gait Physical and … Continue reading →

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The pollutive firework phenomena

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Tradition and Culture Are words that are used These days unfortunately They are abused Animals slaughtered in rings In Spain and elsewhere The gushing of blood Into vile dark despair The fifth of November The gunpowder plot Guy Fawkes and … Continue reading →

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A chimpanzee has made her plea

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Us chimpanzee’s Live in the trees Thats of course until You want your soft white toilet paper Or palm oil Then the thrill For all of you Sweet humans With The forest our delight But you employ the loggers And … Continue reading →

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Its the November sickness

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The November sickness Its every single year It probably starts in october And brings about such fear Its bangers and explosions And flashes in the night Each whizz and frightening siren It truthfulljy isnt right Imagine the poor old hedgehog … Continue reading →

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A tin of beans

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Rex Tyler

A tin of beans for breakfast In the safety of my car Under a tumultuous dawn Where you wonder Who you are A fine blue sky apparent And a sheath of gold and cream Where two hungry Kites are circling … Continue reading →

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Are the aliens almost here?

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Each of us is somewhere Our presence is our worth We permeate and thus pervade This ball known as the Earth We saturate environments And empty spaces we Fill up with corporations And declare our vacancy Tonight a crimson sun … Continue reading →

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Watching the grey skies feeling the wind

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The sun is wrestling wildly With the clamour of the gray Tenacity you have to hand it To the sun today A sea of slate is lapping Struggling to be Seen in every quarter Bringing its misery She’s back that … Continue reading →

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The time before the storm

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The sun is acting strangely Its aura seems to me To be as bright as ever And the wind is breaking free Birds seem somewhat frantic The coloration too It really feels unusual And not altogether true But its tangible … Continue reading →

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Atlantic Salmon and why farming them is nuts

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The naivete of thinking that your knowledge Is beyond The Natural world of Gaia Establishing this bond With obsession and with tenets That you believe is true Is in essence just credulity Its what corporates do Its bewilderingly obvious How … Continue reading →

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Logging and what it really means

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Logging opens up space It casts our minds back where The forests rampant in its green Seemed to attack despair Every inch of every where Was created and achieved a balance and Gaia was there And I just felt relieved … Continue reading →

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Cloud Forests

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Rex Tyler

In the Andean cloud forests A warm hanging shroud Drifts from the clouds And feels kind of proud Sitting quietly on gnarled boughs And gleaming leaves That spreads at light level And quietly achieves All kinds of parrots Sing cluck … Continue reading →

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Baobab

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Rex Tyler

They climb into the sky Inside out upside down With its roots on its head As some sort of a crown Imagine an African child who perceives What a tree looks like And firmly believes The tan and the shine … Continue reading →

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Terrible twelth to the tragic tenth of December

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Hen harriers have really took a pasting And much of that is down to the red grouse The coporation blood sport of the so called toffs And really all should be in the courthouse Not paying all those thousands to … Continue reading →

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Bushmeat

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Its deep seated in the culture In the tradition of a place In Africa it is illegal And these days a disgrace Wild and feral animals The sick ones too can be Victims in the killing Which is why now … Continue reading →

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Dead zones

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Rex Tyler

They are out there And are growing tysons Foods and Smithfield do Create such vile anomalies Its what these bastards do Generating mountains of excrement galore From all their concentration camps In their brand new war Just three per cent … Continue reading →

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Paul Watson almost said it all

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The vegan sits in his hospital bed A beacon of the light He refuses to eat chicken On lamb he will not bite He will not let the mother cow GeT raped or milked or shot He eats the abundant … Continue reading →

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Camelford

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Rex Tyler

JULY 1988 JOhn Stevens was a tanker driver Who went to bodmin Moor To the Lower Moor Water Treatment Works It was unmanned and whats more He actually had never been there And the Tory Party were Preparing to privatise … Continue reading →

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The great ROUNDUP

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Consciousness has been around For many a year The thoughts the sense Of the inner child A mindlessness bordering on the moronic An abstractness that could be seen as wild Unconcerned and uninvolved Indifferent one might say As the corporate … Continue reading →

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Human’s detestablity

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Rex Tyler

To loathe those cretins who set out On a mission to cause death By poisoning the wild life Denying them of breath Leaving baited carcasses For unsuspecting souls Who may be very hungry And forget that certain trolls Amongst the … Continue reading →

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Areas where wildness prevails

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Rex Tyler

its seems to be a world away From where most of us dwell Where GAIA in a moment of magic Cast her spell The softness of the litter From The leaves Under our feet So Yielding and compressible So Relaxing … Continue reading →

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Restavek children

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Rex Tyler

After the earthquake Came so many orphans Their parents all wiped out So where could they go They became relocated Within the family But actually slaves As we all know Tent cities And slums are of such shabby Structures Hardly … Continue reading →

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TOBACCO AND THE CHILDREN

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Rex Tyler

This world of misadventure Where cruelty is rife Under the cover of distant lands The devil weilds his knife To the hurtfulness and the detriment Of children of the world Bright buttons of imagination Who in spitefulness are hurled The … Continue reading →

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The feral spirit

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The feral spirit Remains untainted by the arrogance Of man The wilderness creates an understanding So profound and GAIA sets the plan To find a sickly wild soul And to give care to its plight Like a fox mauled by … Continue reading →

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Hunter man

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The philosophy of existence Where Every species has its place Enduring and perpetual Surviving in the face Of genuine creation Attested and fulfilled Essental and purposeful In essence all instilled With feelings and with spirit With a tendency to be … Continue reading →

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Lonesome George

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Rex Tyler

To try and get to grips With how a character would feel Hiding on an island Where fear was very real Historicity had brought down on him Adversity and gore As sailors had come ashore To plunder and whats more … Continue reading →

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Adam Shoults

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The epitome of an adventurer With a restlessness to feel The art of being vulnerable And tempt providence for real A cartographer who imagined The lines on maps conceal Myriads of wonderment And essentially whats real That visionary approach That … Continue reading →

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In and around the rollright stones

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The skyscape is hard not to look at today The rich colouration is there on this May Morning, its Sunday There’s a ritual today For Beltaine and I am here Early to pay My respect to the mother And her … Continue reading →

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