A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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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boor

Archaic Terms
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

A crude, ill-mannered, or socially inept person; in poetic and dramatic contexts, boors serve as foils to refined characters and embody coarseness, lack of cultivation, or the blunt force of rustic life.

Detailed Definition
Derived from rural origins, boor became a term of cultural judgement in poetry, contrasting refinement with perceived rustic ignorance. Poets used it to explore class tensions, civility, and prejudice, sometimes reinforcing stereotypes, sometimes questioning them. The term’s bluntness makes it effective for sharp social contrast and moral commentary.
Example
Example in poetry:
The boor tramples flowers he cannot name, deaf to the music of their grace; She sets the boor against the courtly tongue to show how manners shape the soul; A boor may plough the earth with honest strength yet never till his mind; The poet’s boor mocks books as toys, preferring fists to thought
Additional Notes
Boor reflects historical anxieties about civility, education, and class. In poetry, it often contrasts rustic bluntness with courtly refinement, though some poets invert this to criticise artificial manners. The term can encode prejudice, so modern readers should note whether a poet is endorsing or questioning social hierarchy. Boor is especially useful for analysing how politeness and morality were culturally linked.
Also Known As
Churl Lout Clod
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