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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

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Coalport

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

Coalport is English porcelain known for delicate floral painting and elegant table services.

Detailed Definition
In the category of ceramics, Coalport represents 19th century refinement and floral artistry. Poets reference it to convey graceful living and botanical beauty within homes, supporting meditations on nature's translation into art. These porcelains enrich themes of cultivation, femininity, and fleeting perfection. Coalport ceramics provide delicate visual poetry for domestic verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Coalport china — produced in Shropshire from the late eighteenth century and known for its rich ground colours and jewelled decoration — appears in Victorian verse as a byword for domestic splendour; A poem about a Victorian wedding gift might describe a Coalport dessert service: "deep claret ground, the reserved panels painted with named views of the Rhine"; Coalport's revival of Sèvres and Meissen styles makes it a useful image for poems about imitation, aspiration, and the anxiety of the provincial confronting the continental; In a poem about a china cabinet's contents, Coalport holds its own alongside older wares: "not first but faithful, the Coalport jug in its place for forty years"; The factory's location on the Severn — near Ironbridge, the cradle of industrialism — gives Coalport a geographic irony: fine porcelain made in the shadow of iron; A poem about a church fête stall might describe "a Coalport cup and saucer, slightly crazed, offered for twenty pence — the jewelling still intact."
Additional Notes
The Coalport factory, established near the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire around 1795 and later relocated to Stoke-on-Trent, produced fine English porcelain throughout the nineteenth century known particularly for its exquisitely painted flower panels, jewelled decoration, and elaborate ground colours. Coalport acquired the moulds and patterns of several earlier factories including Caughley and Nantgarw, preserving those traditions. Its tablewares were widely used by the English middle and upper classes and appear in Victorian fiction as markers of domestic refinement. The name Coalport is often associated with the sustained artisanal excellence of Victorian decorative china rather than avant-garde innovation.
Also Known As
Coalport porcelain
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