Category Archives: Environmental Poems

Ubari sand sea

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Rex Tyler

AFrica’s enormous desert The saharan scene THe ubari sand sea Pyramids Vast sand dunes have always been Rising upwards artistically Casting their shadows wide Tempting the Swallows from nigeria Really to come in side 1200 miles of flapping widely Brought … Continue reading →

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The great migration

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Fresh water and green grass To taste the verdure of the day Its what commands respect in Wilderbeest Whose real dismay The herds emaciated from the numbers Starving where The need and thrust Is to travel through the African dust … Continue reading →

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RIO

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Christ the Redeemer Arms aloft Braves the city Clearly soft On pollution A desire To perish in the Inevitable fire And stretching away In front we see GUanabara Lagoon It be Given by GAIA To aid the world Thats before … Continue reading →

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The Pacific Ocean

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Its undeniably massive In places extremely deep From the Arctic Ocean To Antartica Its hydrosphere does leap To 46per cent of the earths surface So to say Its larger than the land combined On any given day The Mariana trench … Continue reading →

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Yu chi tang or sharks fin soup

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Rex Tyler

YU chi tang,the vilest most Hidious taste of all Sharks fins mean the end To these great predators And send A death knell through the ocean As predation takes a hit So many sad imbalances Are happening and it Means … Continue reading →

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Killing whales is adding to the planets more rapid demise

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The great overtures we hear Within the ocean The great whale songs That lift the mariners hearts Into perpetuity externally forever The philosophy of existence that just starts To resonate in spirits undeniably For sum and substance It can reach … Continue reading →

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What are we doing?

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Cities where ants scurry this way And that Where vehicular poisons are where We are at Where once the sound sod and the life force We saw Was concreted over and yes some more Did we live in a cave … Continue reading →

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Naivasha just 100 KM from Nairobi

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The second largest fresh water lake In Africa 250 sq miles and its cold Just 15 metres deep The Rift valley if we leap Backwards BOAC flights Were sold And Would land here From 1937 for 13 years They landed … Continue reading →

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THe Petrified Forest

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Rex Tyler

When great dinosaurs walked On the planet Some 2 million long years ago What we now see Is a petrified forest A realization A show Of treasures And Geological splendour A great painted desert Where we See petrified tree trunks … Continue reading →

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The Danube Delta

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Rex Tyler

A half a million hectares In Romania and Ukraine The second largest in Europe With so very much to gain From wildness of an environment A wetlands thats so green A sanctuary for hundreds of birds Who seemingly convene To … Continue reading →

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Swamplands

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Flood control fish protection Carbon storage and water purification Wild life habitats truthfully Are this planets real salvation The indigenous guardian peoples Identified this, they Took on the task of giving To the environment each day Slow moving stagnant waters … Continue reading →

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Fish farming

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Nothingness and emptiness An insidious degree Destruction of a species For profitability Unreal a groundless motive Existence without thought A phenomenal disclosure An abstration that is sought Unclassifiabilty with a consequence To bear The wrong association A deviation where Unidentified … Continue reading →

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Behold the golden Daffodils

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Rex Tyler

SPring’s clarion call of goldenness The daffodil who has been Underneath the winter snow and frost Where in that lean icy under foot place It has swollen and has shown Its green tips to the waiting skies Yes Mother Nature … Continue reading →

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Democratic republic of the CONGO

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Poverty and impoverishment Creates in man a need To suffer with his family They are owned and robbed indeed Underfed and down at heel Unable to pay ones way So drawn into great dangers Just hopeful they can pay In … Continue reading →

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Billy barr snow man

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Rex Tyler

GOthic Colorado An old mining place And he is the only inhabitant And that is by Gods grace He moved some 4o years ago From Trention so they say And lives in this old cottage He helped to build That … Continue reading →

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SAtish Kumar and DARTMOOR

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Rex Tyler

From Rajastan Satish came forth in search Of greener climes The thought of death And regaining breath Through the seasons and the times The books he had read of England And its green and pleasant land Of course became a … Continue reading →

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Border crossing off beaten track

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Rex Tyler

It was absolutely pouring leaving Bangladesh We went into Tripura a hilly state to see A place where traditional hill tribes And religious groups now be TRipura and misoram off the beaten track A growing population here Habitat loss attack … Continue reading →

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A place of rivers

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Bangladesh a country full of rivers The Padma one mean raging torrent she Set up by the Himalaya melt water Hitting muddy banks and ruggedly Tearing mud from off those banks and sending Farm land curling into the river where … Continue reading →

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Corporations and habitat loss

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The jungle and the forests Around the world are seeing Major deforestation And its down to the human being Whose life has become disordered Up against great GAIA she Is suffering from the vagaries Of the corporate who see A … Continue reading →

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Yellowstone-lightening strikes

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The fallen wood and the grasses high With all this heat Are of course bone dry A lightening strike And the tinder burns Wild fires develop And the concerns Are many among the creatures who Know now what they have … Continue reading →

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Yellowstone- adapt my son

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The plight alas of the grizzly bears Who are also struggling too Hibernation time is coming The bellies of a few Are heaving, with food slowly digesting Over time but the pine nuts That the grizzlies relish The pine beetles … Continue reading →

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Yellowstone -Taking it to another level

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Rex Tyler

2000 metres up a sight for sore eyes Everywhere An entirety of colour that excites the eyes To care Fulfilment of the spirit brimming with such light Wild flower carpets deck the place With character building sight Butterflies so delicate … Continue reading →

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Yellowstone -The times they are a changing

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Dylan was out there in front long ago Times were a changing as we all know And now its the climate existence abroad Its actuality that some can’t afford Looking at yellowstone That great sanctuary With the realization That a … Continue reading →

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31 years

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Perpetuity apparent And the realization that we Made decisions long ago That may halt eternity Arteries of agony Chromosomes of care Ancestry deep rooted And ingrained now everywhere Life force deemed suspended Unrelated so to say The need was to … Continue reading →

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Accion Ecologica

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Rex Tyler

TExaco Chevron showed you their colours Years ago you knew the score The jungles the people the benefits Told us The oil the pollution The cancer of war And how its all planted In people of courage The Shuar people … Continue reading →

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The detrimental affects of farming shrimps

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Shrimp farming has devasted the Mangrove forests they Are halophytes salt tolerant trees That form coastlines every day Destruction isnt pretty or Practical its Hell And every indigenous specues leaves So nobody does well Mud skippers and tiny embryo’s suffer … Continue reading →

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ALexandra Waterfalls and the water of life

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The rich world of Nature Explicitly shows The physical substance That just grows and grows The realization the embodiment see It activates and plunges so violently Creating a spectacle Great sheets of ice Canada’s tundra Seen in a trice Melt … Continue reading →

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Natures palette is everywhere

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Rex Tyler

Autumn’s brush strokes Give us yellow sunshine mustard so divine Primrose sulphur old gold too Look around and be amazed Honey coloured straw hats, Who? Wears them Good old Mrs Jones She’s the witch who lives away at Hawthorns With … Continue reading →

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The great American West

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Rex Tyler

When you look back on real history The realization comes Not from visiting the moon But the sound of native drums The wigwams by the river The bison herds who ran The wilderness was teeming Thats when the west began … Continue reading →

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RIver Bend San Francisco

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Rex Tyler

The nobility of the wild and free With a pedigree and an ancestry In a rustic space where every face Has humility its just wants to be Part of the whole conceived of soul Unpretentiously its role Inoffensive unassuming Unseen … Continue reading →

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