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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

Home › Glossary › Letter B

Bur

Mythology
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

The first god, licked from ice by Audhumla; father of Borr and grandfather of Odin.

Detailed Definition
Bur emerged from the ice of Ginnungagap when Audhumla licked away the rime, becoming the progenitor of the Æsir through his son Borr. He signifies the birth of divine order. In poetry, Bur represents the genesis of the gods and the transition from primordial chaos to structured cosmos, foundational to Norse creation myths.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bur, first of the Æsir, licked from ice by Audhumla; Father of Borr and grandfather of Odin, Vili, and Vé; Poets cite Bur to mark the dawn of divine order from chaos; His emergence signals the shift from primordial to structured cosmos; In kennings, “Bur’s kin” refers to the gods collectively; Contemporary mythic verse uses him to explore origins of consciousness and lineage.
Additional Notes
Bur, the first god, emerges from ice licked by Audhumla and fathers Borr, continuing the divine line to Odin; his emergence from primordial chaos positions him as a foundational figure of order, and his brief mention in the Prose Edda belies his cosmological importance—poets can use Bur to signify origin, purity, or the birth of consciousness from void.
Also Known As
Burr
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