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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 C

carraig

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

The Irish word for a rock or crag, a hard, enduring landscape term used in poetry to evoke the geological permanence of Irish coastal and mountain terrain and the qualities of stubbornness and survival.

Detailed Definition
Carraig (anglicised in placenames as carrick or craig) describes the exposed rock of cliff, shoreline, and mountain — a dominant feature of the Irish western seaboard where limestone karst, granite, and sandstone define the visible landscape. In poetry, carraig embodies permanence and resistance: it is what endures when everything soft has been worn away. The rocky western coast — Carraig Aonair, the Aran Islands, the Cliffs of Moher — became an iconic image of austere beauty in Irish and Anglo-Irish verse, and carraig as a term concentrates the aesthetic of hard, enduring, undecorated form that some poets consciously adopted as an alternative to romantic lushness.
Example
Example in poetry:
The carraig stands firm against centuries of crashing waves; Poets compare steadfast loyalty to the unyielding nature of carraig; The hero climbs the carraig to gain perspective on his homeland; Lightning strikes the carraig, leaving scars that tell stories of storms; The carraig serves as a meeting place for lovers separated by tide; In metaphor, the carraig represents enduring truth amidst changing opinions.
Additional Notes
Carraig (rock/crag) symbolizes endurance, stability, and resilience in Irish poetry. It is often contrasted with the fluidity of water or the transience of human life. Poets use carraig to represent steadfast loyalty, unyielding truth, or the harshness of the natural world. In coastal poetry, the carraig is a site of danger and beauty, where the sea crashes against immovable stone. It serves as a metaphor for the poet's own voice standing firm against the tides of change or oppression.
Also Known As
rock crag stone cliff
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