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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

buile

Dialect
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 term from early Irish literature meaning a frenzy or madness, associated with the state of poetic or prophetic inspiration, most famous in the title of the tale Buile Shuibhne (The Frenzy of Sweeney).

Detailed Definition
Buile describes a state of divinely or supernaturally induced madness that transforms its subject into a wild, visionary figure living outside the boundaries of ordinary society. In Buile Shuibhne, the Ulster king Sweeney is driven mad by a cleric's curse and spends years as a wild man of the woods, composing lyric nature poetry of extraordinary beauty from the trees where he perches. The tale became a central text for modern Irish and Ulster poets: Seamus Heaney translated it as Sweeney Astray, and the figure of the mad poet-wanderer became a powerful archetype for the artist alienated from society but intensely alive to the natural world.
Example
Example in poetry:
Buile describes the frenzied rage that overtakes warriors in battle; The poet depicts buile as both a gift and a curse from the war gods; Under the influence of buile, Cú Chulainn becomes unstoppable yet uncontrollable; Buile transforms the hero into something neither fully human nor fully beast; The aftermath of buile leaves the warrior exhausted and filled with regret; Modern poetry uses buile as a metaphor for destructive emotional states.
Additional Notes
Buile describes a state of frenzied madness or rage, often induced by supernatural forces or extreme emotional trauma. In early Irish literature, it is associated with warriors like Cú Chulainn or poets like Suibhne Geilt, who gain extraordinary powers but lose their sanity. Poets use buile to explore the thin line between inspiration and insanity, suggesting that true poetic vision requires a departure from normal rationality. It is a powerful metaphor for the destructive potential of unchecked emotion or divine possession.
Also Known As
frenzy madness wildness poetic fury
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