Category Archives: Trees our silent friends

Pines

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Rex Tyler

Sheer pines Pure symmetry Oxygenators clarity A peaceful montage A wood of souls We breathed their scent And enjoyed our strolls

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Plymouth 3

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Rex Tyler

Plymouth and Nelson History was made Today in 2023 The council made their raid On trees, on green wild oxygenators Thrust their almighty axe Tore the life out of us all So they are the facts Plymouth sawed down 100 … Continue reading →

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Plymouth 2

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Rex Tyler

Reached a silent sanctuary 100 trees supposed 2b Enlivened by the sordid air But the council they were there Vicious violent vehemence Actually it mean’t no sense Sordid sanctimonious silence Their despair divided we Death the darkest ever damning Plymouth … Continue reading →

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Plymouth

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Rex Tyler

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A wintry scene

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Rex Tyler

An icy cold start Where the frost does impart A cutting creative display Of tragic proportions The forest bleached white Wild animals scuttling out of the light Imagine their predicament Caught in the cross hairs The violence the streaming of … Continue reading →

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Crab apples let’s plant some

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Rex Tyler

Pollinating partners for a the good old apple trees loved by birds and nature An old countryman agrees Selfless thoughtful mindfulness Caring for futures you Understand the wild souls love and logic And I do Have such respect for carers … Continue reading →

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Shared crimbo tree

Posted on December 8, 2022 by Rex Tyler

The birds become tree baubles My beloved Corvidae a sparrow &;a pigeon A jackdaw 2doth play Among my static branches On 1=side, then another Possible a mother a father some1’sbrother Baubles on my Christmas Tree Organic through &through 50 years … Continue reading →

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December and the Copper Beech

Posted on December 3, 2022 by Rex Tyler

The structure stands demanding Of the air Bourne the great Tree A mass of Lacey twiglets Now it’s leaves are free Matted neath it’s branches In the neighbours drives That smooth trunk holds such majesty It’s how it all survives

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Crow boys

Posted on December 3, 2022 by Rex Tyler

We are in December The Beech just feels bare The crows are significant now sitting there I feed them often Most seemingly say they shit on their cars I ‘m a pain but they are free To shit where they … Continue reading →

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An average tree’s lamentation

Posted on November 26, 2022 by Rex Tyler

How did that trunk feel sliding Into your back passage You totally arrogant bunch of hell raisers The glee on your faces until that point When the great tree tipped forward And the undergrowth became Their reality That instant agony … Continue reading →

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Loggers detestation

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Helping a wonderful tree That has grown over the years Fought the wind and the rain Watch the human fraternity The truly insane Those lacking wonder Stony indifference Irreverent shits Inadequate arses Should be torn to bits By the weight … Continue reading →

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November’s fae time

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Rex Tyler

The glistening of sunlight on leaves All a spiral The November shuddering tugging away At the last semblance that lacy adorning Brimstone and sulphur on this blue sky day Slated grey boughs search upwards on tip toe As a lowly … Continue reading →

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A pea soupy sky

Posted on November 24, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Bucketing down from a pea soupy sky Bashing the window glass I’m in the dry But it’s cold, energy off A chill really deep down A fluttering silhouette A copper Beech crown A vicious vile wind In Berkhamsted town

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Joyful refrains

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Rex Tyler

I am a Copper Beech In a poets garden I look in his study No plea or pardon It’s late November A bright crisp blue Sky above me good and true Spangled golden leaves hang fast Whispering melodies of the … Continue reading →

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21st a November a Monday

Posted on November 21, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Belligerently some of the leaves Are hanging on really and A vicious wind heaving gusts It’s hard to understand How leaves grab hold the branches not wanting to fly Getting a real buffeting By a grey and angry sky

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Beech tree splendour in mid November

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Rex Tyler

I have a Beech before me It’s copper leaves on fire The sunlight depicting wondrously q Of its varied hues I cannot tire The wind has stolen some of them But those still hanging fast Are beautiful and golden As … Continue reading →

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Trees

Posted on October 2, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Light and dark And cold and wet Mature and saplings Straight and set Fair crooked bent and short A philosophy thats Big  on thought Wildness builds a forest green Gnarled and straight up Rocks the scene Forests really in full … Continue reading →

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Oxygen

Posted on September 18, 2022 by Rex Tyler

A canopy of all seeing eyes Sucking light into their being Unfolding revelations Their efforts really freeing The oxygen that we Standing under dreaming demand ostensibly

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Proctor and Gamble

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Reputation means something in corporate eyes a good name and character About the size respectability fashion acclaim what of the Palm Oil it isn’t a game not any more The  rainforests cry The orangutans suffering and many die abused unrelentingly … Continue reading →

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Logging ancient forests for bark mulch and toilet rolls

Posted on August 9, 2022 by Rex Tyler

The futility of logging Of wasting ancientness Trees give so much back in life Profiteering stress The evidence is conclusive Perpetuity Unmade and unbegotten Irreconcilability

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The insanity of NSW and all for woodchip

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Ashamed they are Advising don’t spread the message far What they do in NSW the forest yes they scar Rip out oxygenating trees for wood chip Councils there are clearly in denial Just how insane they are

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Logging beautiful forests the mayhem of monsters

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Rex Tyler

The lack of wonder Resident in the government Of NSW Over its needs to clear forests Of wonderment Of awe inspiring beauty Such irreverence Such stony indifference

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NSW logging madness of the demented

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Rex Tyler

In NSW they are hopelessly asleep Unconscious to the predicament That makes some of us weep Our precious trees their abundance Their value to us all Not as wood chip not as logging There’s another call God like in their … Continue reading →

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A couple of days after the heatwave

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Puffy clouds in a sea of blue a stillness really breaking through The rustling copper leaves where light darkens and lightens  however slight i love the sunlight drawing hue the artistry that just peeps through a lattice effect on the … Continue reading →

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Hot sun and its stress on front garden trees facing south

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Cherry tree leaves forlornly Hang downwards clustered they Rock out in the blazing sun On this Summers day Sun kissed burnished branches In the shadow of the Beech Resplendent in its coppery gown Where both roots do reach Comforting each … Continue reading →

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Poor old tree

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Rex Tyler

the trunk was hacked off by the crazy builders and i asked for it i just lthought That I would stand it in the sunshine in my garden to watch and to see the life force which is why   … Continue reading →

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The Tree

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Rex Tyler

Look at that splendid oak tree ripened with the many years its stood there advertising its massive strength  and its willingness to purposely provide an induspensible refuge for so many souls to hide moth caterpillars the maidens blush loves the … Continue reading →

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The old cherry tree

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Rex Tyler

it had stood thirty years in my garden about twenty feet high in the shade of a Copper Beech real strong and mighty two splendid souls on parade   five years or so  ago someone not an arbourist sadly came … Continue reading →

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Rollrights

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Rex Tyler

At the Rollrights Always listen to the coming of the dawn to the muses  heard at twilight far away towards the corn listen to the grove of trees that silently proclaim stand beside the glorious Elder of Long Compton fame … Continue reading →

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Rex Tyler

Muyicha Mufabule a man able to prioritise with logic and with care in a war torn country where disunion did share a large part of  the turmoil the intricacies of life labyrinths of complexity and a frenzy of real strife … Continue reading →

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