Category Archives: Environmental Poems

Sand mining

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The largest economic sector In India today Is its constuction industry That has almost blown away Any semblance of reality Around major cities where Huge numbers of new houses Are being built, and there The need for sand is massive … Continue reading →

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The trek

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The most ancient and the largest Fresh water lake Baikal rift zone where The earth crust is pulling apart the scare With mountains all around it Its vastness blows the mind Thousands of plants and animals Just everywhere you find … Continue reading →

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Muritz through the seasons

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The embodiment of all you ever saw Or wish to see The backbone and the marrow and the core Is adequately Provided by our mother the creator Essentially Great forests lakes and rivers And wild life good and free Muritz … Continue reading →

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Daffodils

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Cloaks of vernal chlorophyll From my friend the daffodil Who emerges with such meaning To open up in Spring Each bloom as a rule Gives me its sweet call And with utter harmony Its honesty does sing a consensus of … Continue reading →

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OOSTVAARDERSPLASSEN LELYSTAD

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Poor judgement Created an anomaly A place where re wilding Was expected to be Sloppy thinking Lack of vision A false dawn we got 22 square kilometres And its going to pot A National Park On re-claimed land The Netherlands … Continue reading →

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Lesser Celandine

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Moisture wetness dewiness Where Ficaria Verna thrives A harbinger of Spring itself A wild plant that survives Forming mats in woodlands Threatening to control In the Buttercup family It has a powerfful role Called the lesser celandine But noxious one … Continue reading →

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When We place too much emphasis on science and making profit

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Rex Tyler

An irreverence for Nature A stony indifference to What was infact imagination And Science taking the view A Matter of course Perhaps disbelief But so Felt that arrogant streak The mothers of all mothers taken for granted She Responded by … Continue reading →

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St Kilda

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Its a heritage site, believe it do Out of the Atlantic the cliffs they ring true Amazingly climb up into the sky Great sea stacs that are very high Undeniably enduring they Are the home to birds That all make … Continue reading →

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Adani go back to India and stay there

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Gifted the great barrier reef 1400 miles Along Australia’s North East Coast And it ticks all the dials Some 3000 different corals Drawing souls from near and far A wonder of our world today The Barrier Reef a star Among … Continue reading →

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Our legacy -we were the fracking generation

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Rex Tyler

An invasion Is now happening The fracking clan are here Gas and oil are after Our blood and it is clear When the coppers and the government Actually get their way Life as we know in England We all will … Continue reading →

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Winter in Berkhamsted at 3.21pm

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Rex Tyler

There is light in the sky this afternoon Streams of grey and cream The sun is breaking through the cloud Assembling its gleam A stillness, branches sleeping Rooves still decked in snow The Rosemary recovering From the onslaught a while … Continue reading →

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The Carmichael Mine STOP ADANI in their tracks

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Rex Tyler

I just see inexpediency And inadvisability It just feels so unseemly Inopportune And untimely In Mundra thats in India A coal power plant was built Adani were the company Who have denied all guilt They overstepped their mark we hear … Continue reading →

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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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