The Curious Trinkets of Nelius Flynn

 

 

 

 Kernow/ Cornwall

A rugged and rocky coastline

Lands End

Always.

Mousehole.

St. Michael's Mount. 

Laylines.

Cosy harbours and gift shops,

Sennen Cove.

Old Stone and brick ventilation chimneys

For tin mines on hilltops.

Newlyn-coloured-painted skies.

The Red Lion.

The Pirates of Penzance.

The Hawks Well.

Thunderous clouds within touching distance 

of our upraised hands.

Proud-pale-eyed-seafaring people.

Familiar Cornish spirit with Celtic fragments

Creating an affinity.

Hand built homes put in place by hardy men

With stone from local quarries.

Statements in granite.

Piers and lobster pots, hanging nets and

Cottages with small rooms.

Broad white chimneys.

Outside, stone-hewn steps leading to cosy lofts

Where Winter nights were wild

And people spoke in subdued murmurs.

Onan hag Oll.

One and all. 

 

 

 

            Mousehole 

 

 

             Sennen Cove 

 

 

 

             Cornish Sailors 

 

 

 

            Our house in Madron

 

           The Causeway, St. Michael's Mount

 

 

 

           Lands End

 

 

Legend has it that St Piran "discovered" tin smelting when his black hearthstone which contained tin bearing ore got hot enough for the tin to melt out. The white liquid tin rose up to form a white cross on a black background as it did from the dark stone, which became his emblem; the St Piran's Flag.