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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

cnoc

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 hill, one of the most frequently occurring landscape terms in Irish poetry, associated with the fairy mounds, ancestral sites, and the characteristic rolling topography of the Irish countryside.

Detailed Definition
Cnoc (plural cnoic) is both a precise geographical description and a mythologically resonant term, since many of Ireland's hills are identified in tradition with the fairy mounds of the sídhe, the burial sites of ancient kings, or the locations of legendary battles. In dinnsheanchas verse, hills are named and their names explained through stories of gods and heroes. For poets of the landscape tradition, the cnoc provides a vantage point — both physical and imaginative — from which the layered history of a place becomes visible. The word appears in hundreds of Irish placenames and in the titles of poems across several centuries.
Example
Example in poetry:
The cnoc rises gently from the surrounding flatlands like a sleeping giant; Poets personify the cnoc as a guardian watching over the valley below; Children play on the cnoc where ancient battles once took place; The cnoc provides shelter for sheep during sudden mountain storms; From atop the cnoc, the poet surveys the patchwork of fields below; The cnoc often marks burial sites, connecting landscape with memory of the dead.
Additional Notes
Cnoc (hill) is a ubiquitous landscape feature in Irish poetry, often personified as a sleeping giant or a guardian. Hills are associated with fairy mounds (sídhe) and are sites of ancient burial and ritual. In poetry, the cnoc offers a vantage point for surveying the land, symbolizing perspective and connection to ancestry. Climbing a cnoc is often a metaphor for overcoming obstacles or gaining spiritual insight. The gentle curvature of the cnoc contrasts with the ruggedness of the sliabh (mountain).
Also Known As
hill knoll mound small hill
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