‘In the silent, sacred earth, roots and stones are dreaming.’
There is a gazebo at the end of the garden. It overlooks the estuary. When the tide is in, sea water pools around seaweed covered rocks. The sound is peaceful, meditative. I drink an early morning coffee, listen to the birds singing morning songs, watch a spider spin his fragile life between timber beams above my head. Even in the harshest of winters, the rise and fall of tides, sun-light on water, movement of sky, cloud, moon and stars, allows an awareness of nature behind the mask of perceived reality. I offer my words and pictures in celebration and gratitude to God, for allowing me a glimpse behind the mask.
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Bio: Teri Flynn was born in Wales of Welsh and Irish Parents. Educated in England, she moved to Co.Waterford, Ireland in 1997 where her Poetry has since appeared in “The Turning Tide” – an anthology of new writing from Co.Waterford. “Southward” The Journal of the Munster Literature Centre and “Imagine” The Tallow Writers Group quarterly review. Her poetry appears in “Sticky Orchard”, a group effort with Alan Garvey, Jim O’Donnell and Anthony O’Neill and grant assisted by Waterford County Council’s Arts Grant Scheme. “Listening To The Grass Grow” with Jim O’Donnell and Anthony O’Neill was published by Edward Power at Rectory press and most recently, in ‘Murmurings’, Remembering Anthony O’Neil, with Jim O’Donnell and Alan Garvey.
Her poem Queen Of The Sea was included in the Chesapeake Exhibition at RUH, Bath, 2011. Figurehead Carver, Andy Peters. Photographic display of Ship’s Figurehead Carvings by Richard Sibley – http://www.tallshipsgallery.com
A themed display of her oil paintings and poems entitled Cynefin, were on display in Waterford during The Imagine Festival in 2017. Cynefin-pronounced kuh-nev-in is a Welsh word meaning habitat or place. A place where a being feels it ought to live, where nature around you feels right and welcoming.
Masked Native 
Hello,
I stumbled upon your blog today. You have a great network. I love literature. Do stop by sometime at my blog too. I have started a magazine on my blog called ‘Alphabet and You’. Would love you to submit for the next issue. Also it would be kind of you if you could share the link with your writer friends.
Thank you,
Michelle D’costa.
This is the link
http://pikoomish.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/collaboration-photo-prompts-issue-6/
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Hi and thank you for your comment on my blog, great to have a new viewpoint from other parts of the world. I have looked at yours and find it very impressive, I will share
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Teri, everyday I see God in a special way, and what I share comes from His inspiring love! It is like I have been here before and now and back to sing to the world again about the greatness of his love…I see that in you also my sister! Spiritual hugs and blessings!
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Thank you again Wendell. I understand what you mean about returning to share the greatness of God’s love, it is everywhere, and I am so grateful. I am humbled by your Spiritual hugs and blessings and return the same to you in kind.
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“…for allowing me a glimpse behind the mask.” Such a privilege and blessing. It is nice to have found your blog, by way of Geo Sans.
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Thank you very much for your kind comment and follow on my blog, pleased to meet you, and look forward to taking a peek or two at yours.
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Very nice and inspiring blog, Teri! Thanks for following “Known is a drop, Unknown is an Ocean”. 🙂
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Thank you for your compliment Ganesh. I am very happy to have found your blog, look forward to reading lots more.
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Thank you for visiting my blog and liking one of my posts. Blessings, Natalie 🙂
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You have a beautiful blog. I look forward to seeing and reading more of your posts. Thank you for your follow on mine, much appreciated.
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I always enjoy visiting your blog and reading what you have shared and cross-referencing your decision to live where you live with the poetic impressions you create.
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Thank you Steven. Your visits to my blog are much appreciated, and I always enjoy reading yours.
It seems that the place we choose to live, or work, (or should I say chose us) has it’s own voice, teaching us to listen. It’s always a wonder to hear it but the hard part, is trying to express that feeling.
A community of writers, artists and poets such as this, brings new insights that I am always grateful for.
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Sounds like a wonderful experience….daily.
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Just found your work. I am looking forward to getting to know you better through it.
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Thank you, and very glad to meet you.
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Wonderful to meet you Teri, and I will enjoy exploring more of your excellent poems. and thoughts..
Blessings Sue
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Hello Sue, Wonderful to meet you too. I am so pleased to have found your site, I did write to say thank you for your likes and follow this morning, you are very inspiring.
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Many thanks 🙂 Likewise 🙂
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I am blessed to meet you today. Thank you for honoring my site.
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Teri, I had not read your about page before, and now that I have I’m even more impressed. I love your posts and this window into who you are. Love and hugs, N 🙂 ❤
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Thank you so much Natalie. Isn’t it wonderful that we bare ourselves a little bit at a time to find that we are all so much the same, following the road home to our true self, for the highest good xx
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Absolutely it is, Teri! And that we find that there are so many really nice people in the world. Hugs, N 🙂 ❤
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What a beautiful, peaceful description Teri. It is a virtual painting of a world that is foreign yet familiar to me and I think the reason for that is because of your artistry with words unveils these images and even sounds in my mind. ❤ I'm so happy to have found you.
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Likewise Heather x
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