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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

Cellaret

Ceramics
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 cellaret is a wine cooler or cabinet, often near ceramic tableware.

Detailed Definition
In the category of ceramics, cellarets support hospitality. In poetry, they evoke indulgence and storage.
Example
Example in poetry:
The cellaret — a cabinet or case for storing bottles of wine in the dining room — appears in poems of Georgian and Regency domestic life as a marker of masculine comfort and social ritual; A poem about a country house might describe the cellaret's mahogany interior, the bottles nested in their fitted compartments like well-ordered arguments; In a poem about decline, the cellaret stands empty: "the last of the claret drunk the winter he died, the compartments showing their green baize like small abandoned gardens"; Surtees's hunting squires and their afterdinner rituals inhabit the same world as the cellaret — poetry of the dining room and the stable block; The cellaret's lock — wine being a commodity worth securing — gives poets an image of household economy: pleasure rationed, abundance contained; A verse meditation on the country house sale might itemise the cellaret among the lots: "one mahogany cellaret, fitted interior, provenance uncertain, contents long since vanished."
Additional Notes
The cellaret is a piece of furniture — a lockable container or cabinet designed to store wine bottles — rather than a ceramic object, but it appears in ceramic contexts because it was frequently placed alongside fine ceramic tableware in dining rooms and sideboards. It could be made of wood, metal, or lined with lead or zinc, and sometimes incorporated ceramic tiles or panels in its decoration. As a domestic object in literature, the cellaret suggests a well-appointed household with the means to maintain a wine collection, placing it among the markers of Georgian and Regency prosperity.
Also Known As
Cellarette Wine cooler
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