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

Home › Glossary › Letter B

Boyne

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 famed for the Battle of the Boyne and ancient Neolithic sites like Newgrange.

Detailed Definition
The Boyne carries deep mythological and historical weight in Irish poetry, linked to the goddess Boann and tales of wisdom and sacrifice. It symbolizes ancestral memory, conflict, and sacred landscape. Poets like W.B. Yeats reference it to explore Ireland’s layered past and the tension between myth and modernity.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Irish mythology, the Boyne is sacred as the river of wisdom, linked to the goddess Boann; W.B. Yeats references the Boyne in “The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland” as a threshold to mythic Ireland; Nationalist poets use the Boyne to recall contested histories—Williamite victory versus Gaelic loss; Contemporary poets invoke the Boyne’s passage through Newgrange to explore astronomical and spiritual alignment; Eco-poets lament nutrient runoff threatening the Boyne’s ancient ecosystem; The Boyne’s bends inspire metaphors of cyclical time and ancestral return.
Additional Notes
The Boyne River holds layered significance: as site of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne (a Protestant victory), as sacred Neolithic corridor (Newgrange aligns with winter solstice sunrise over it), and as embodiment of Irish myth (goddess Boann); poets like Yeats use it to navigate contested histories, ancestral memory, and spiritual continuity; its waters symbolize both division and cyclical time.
Also Known As
River Boyne
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