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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

coill

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 wood or forest, a charged landscape term in Irish poetry evoking wildness, refuge, the survival of ancient nature, and the world outside human settlement and control.

Detailed Definition
Coill (plural coillte) represents the forest as both physical reality and imaginative space in Irish verse. Ireland's ancient forests were largely destroyed over centuries of colonisation and agricultural clearance, making the coill a nostalgic and elegiac term as much as a descriptive one. In early Irish nature poetry the wood is a place of beauty and spiritual clarity; in later verse it becomes an image of what has been lost. The wild man of the woods — as in Buile Shuibhne — finds his true home in the coill, and the tradition of hermit poetry from early Christian Ireland celebrates the forest as a place of divine encounter.
Example
Example in poetry:
The coill provides timber for ships and shelter for wild creatures; Poets wander through the coill seeking inspiration from natural solitude; Ancient coill were considered sacred spaces inhabited by spirits; Destruction of the coill represents loss of both ecological and cultural heritage; The coill hides secret paths known only to those raised in the forest; Moonlight filtering through the coill creates patterns that inspire mystical verse.
Additional Notes
Coill (wood/forest) in Irish poetry is a place of refuge, mystery, and wildness. It is associated with the fianna (warrior bands) who lived outside societal norms in the forest. The coill is also a site of spiritual retreat for poets seeking inspiration away from human settlement. Deforestation is a recurring theme of loss in modern Irish poetry, where the coill represents a vanished natural heritage. Poets use coill imagery to explore themes of isolation, protection, and the untamed aspects of nature.
Also Known As
wood forest grove woodland
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