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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

Clun

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

A tributary of the River Teme in Shropshire and Herefordshire, flowing through remote border country.

Detailed Definition
The Clun’s isolation in the Welsh Marches lends it a haunting, timeless quality in poetry. It symbolizes borderland identity, historical ambiguity, and natural solitude. Its presence in verse often evokes the quiet drama of England’s periphery.
Example
Example in poetry:
The Clun, flowing through Shropshire, appears in rural poetry as a secluded tributary of the Teme; Local poets praise Clun’s unspoiled banks and ancient bridges as heritage worth preserving; In pastoral elegies, the Clun offers solace against modern disconnection; Contemporary verse uses Clun to explore borderland identities (England-Wales); Its name’s brevity suits minimalist haiku on rain, stone, and flow; Eco-poets cite Clun’s clean waters as benchmarks for river health.
Additional Notes
The Clun flows through the England-Wales borderlands, a remote, sparsely populated region that evokes solitude and liminal identity; its unspoiled banks and ancient bridges make it a symbol of resilience and heritage; poets may use the Clun to explore peripheral geographies, cross-border culture, or the quiet persistence of rural life against modern erasure.
Also Known As
River Clun
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