Category Archives: Trees

The Ash Tree Celtic tree of now 18/2-17/3

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Rex Tyler

The Ash grabs all the light It can Its pinnate leaves Provide a plan A dampish base A lime rich soil Whether Oak or Ash It seems to boil Down to Ash when the liming Grows Where Dogwood and Privet … Continue reading →

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Magickal whittling

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Rex Tyler

A length of willow Tearfully sprung Witches brooms Were once among The uses for a branch To be Held and whittled Lovingly An aromatic inspiration Feminine and lissom too The outer green and inner bark stripped Where once great beads … Continue reading →

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The Elder and the Birch

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The Elder ends its reign On the twenty second day Of December Then on the 24th The Birch kicks in Her way Set for her through The Wintry months The dark months Where her light Opens up a path for … Continue reading →

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It blew me away

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Rex Tyler

It clear blew me away To the islands of fae Where the white maidens Dance Its one great Celtic chance To see with my eyes The ultimate prize In the forest of Thorn Where green mosses adorn The silvery papery … Continue reading →

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Eye to eye

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Rex Tyler

There was a time When i would walk Through ashridge and might sit Down beside a fallen tree And think, just think a bit Quietly be reflecting Hopeful I might see A deer or perhaps a muncjac Who might come … Continue reading →

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JAn Vlonk’s special OAK

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Endurance and steadfastness Comes with this tree An oak whose deep roots Bring it longevity It Is hungry for light And for wind pollination The oak milk cap fungi Provides some salvation Nitrogen and phosphorous Clearly on tap And heavy … Continue reading →

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Birch

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Rex Tyler

I call the birch the poppy tree Disturb ground and it arrives its like a new beginning And from such thoughts survives As The phantom of the forest Its soulful silvery gaze Under a moon of yellow Its countenance does … Continue reading →

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Aesculus Hippocastanum and the Barn owl

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Rex Tyler

The flower symbol of Kiev The capital of Ukraine KIER A developer With quite a lot to gain Four beautiful flowering Conker trees Offering bounteous shade Growing in a rich green veld Where wildness had been laid A thing of … Continue reading →

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Helena’s Oak

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Into the underworld with me A tree of life so avidly Breathing light And rooted stock Into this meadow good and green Not only Helena has seen Such resplendence And adorning power And a leap of faith Born of the … Continue reading →

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The little plum tree a True story

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Rex Tyler

We had grown the tree For about six years It had lots of leaves And the plum that appears Were generally sweet But it did crop a lot Breaking some branches And then some did rot Ŵe noticed that wasps … Continue reading →

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Leaves (A study)

Posted on May 19, 2018 by Rex Tyler

MAy’s leaves they dance and flurry Seemingly in a hurry To get to grips with buds and fruits and sunshine All the way The piercing greens and firery reds Great clumps of pea green attitude Driven in a soul backed … Continue reading →

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Tree’s and our future

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Get your hands off our dear trees 5G to represent Oblivion and the dying out Of wild life Heaven sent Who cares about the seconds It takes to log on we have spent a lot of dosh And all we … Continue reading →

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Beith / Birch

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Rex Tyler

Silvery pearly frosted skin parchment like A world within Perhaps the carolings of birds written in so many words Within the groves of monochrome The dappled leaves of every tone Of gold and silver drenched in light Make for a … Continue reading →

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Cheerfulness

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Rex Tyler

My Beech is full of song birds On this dull and dingy morning All singing their hearts out Their carolings alive Such exultation of this Winters dankness Revelling perhaps just to survive The night their roost Wherever that was clearly … Continue reading →

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Bristle comb pine

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Rex Tyler

As old as the hills Does that give you the chills For 5000 years I have stood On these mountains a looking Down on your humanity Which truthfully wasn’t good Below me the desert snd now streets of neon Crime … Continue reading →

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Dame Judi’s passion

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Her passion for trees Sees so many friends Rise in her heart And ofcourse she defends Her strategy really For planting each tree In her six acre garden As friends who now be On the other side It is what … Continue reading →

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9/11/2017

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Rex Tyler

A grey forlorn sky With lighter silvery edges A stillness NO I tell a lie A denseness in the hedges The Beech still clothed in gold and orange The cherry green and brown Its almost 3 in the afternoon And … Continue reading →

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The Cherry Tree a little story worth a read

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Cherry how bedgraggled Leaves all crisp and dry Green and yellow That so called prune That kind of made you cry I told him to be gentle But butchers like him they Dont have many feelings Thats why you had … Continue reading →

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a glimpse of the mangroves

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Imagine awhile The great mass of rivers All carrying vast waste Down into the sea Passing the mangroves And leaving debris As Terribly smelly As it could ever be All this stagnation The stench is colossal Aerial rootlets mud driven … Continue reading →

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Amazonia

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Slate grey silhouettes From the forest on high In the clouds where the mists Hang and we must ask why Liana’s,epiphytes draw from the air And the raindrops that fall for all now to share The forest floor with The … 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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Rainforest Canada

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Canada’s Bears and the rainforests stark Straight as a die Such a glistening bark Ask yourself A bear pretty close to the ground Looks up at the sky Shows us what he’s found How such great poles climb into the … Continue reading →

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American Forests

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Rex Tyler

American forests Cathedrals of soul Verdent resplendant Each takes on its role To a timeless permanence The bloom of the now These long standing sentinels Showing us how With their myriad web forms Their communication Beneath the litter We find … Continue reading →

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Willow

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Short lived infact in the philosophy Of existence one might say Undeniably its beautiful In a truly peaceful way An individuality loving the water so In essence its long sweeping branches Where cool waters flow The sort of constitution A … Continue reading →

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ALDER The tree of the now

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Creation presents its realization Its sum and its substance Its perpetual relation History really the bedrock of soul The fundamentals that gave each their role The essential nature The enduring tree The forest the grove Where I to be In … Continue reading →

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Fear of the forest

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Fear man fear Of the forest woodland It moves it clambers Its everywhere Ancient wildness Can you feel it The energy It wants to share Dangling strangling tangling Branches softwoods hardwoods Made aware Renewal its really now the lifes blood … Continue reading →

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The ASh Tree

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Fraxinus Excelsior Which sounds a grand intro Derived From the olive family And, can this tree grow Up to sixty feet Way up into the sky Its branches sweeping backwards And no viper will ever lie Close around or near … Continue reading →

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Rowan

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Rex Tyler

The Rowan is a faerie tree An ancient sacred soul Its seems it originated From ambrosia the goal Of the goddess Hebe In Her magickal chalice She Lost a cup to the demons And charged her eagle To get it … Continue reading →

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Anon the tree of life

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Rex Tyler

Getting together Slowly over time A gathering we Formed a grove of deciduous friends A forest for the free Expression of the lot of us A community let’s say Incorporating dwarf and tall In a truely natural way Each one … Continue reading →

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