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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Awbeg

River
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

An Irish river in County Cork, whose name means “little river,” noted in local song and lore.

Detailed Definition
The Awbeg (“Abhainn Bheag”) appears in Irish folk poetry as a symbol of modest beauty and local pride. Its diminutive name belies its cultural significance in Munster verse, where it represents the intimate connection between community and landscape.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Irish verse, Awbeg (or “Abha Bheag”) is poetically rendered as “the little river” flowing through County Cork; Local poets associate Awbeg with Gaelic lyrical tradition and rural nostalgia; The Awbeg appears in 19th-century nationalist poetry as a quiet witness to colonial disruption; Contemporary Cork poets use Awbeg’s meanders to explore memory and local history; Its name evokes linguistic preservation, inspiring poems about endangered Irish toponyms; The river’s modest scale makes it ideal for intimate, domestic metaphors in lyric poetry.
Additional Notes
Awbeg (from Irish “Abha Bheag,” meaning “little river”) flows through County Cork and appears in Gaelic song and local lore as a symbol of modesty, intimacy, and regional resilience; its small scale makes it ideal for domestic or elegiac poetry, while its name invites linguistic reflection on Irish toponymy; poets interested in postcolonial or eco-local themes may use Awbeg to explore erased or endangered cultural landscapes.
Also Known As
Abha Bheag
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