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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

Coorie

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

To nestle, huddle, or snuggle close for warmth or comfort; to crouch down.

Detailed Definition
"Coorie" is one of the most affectionately physical words in Scots, describing the instinctive drawing together of bodies against cold or fear. It appears in lullabies, love poems, and poems of winter, evoking tenderness and the safety of closeness. Burns and folk tradition use it to express maternal comfort and domestic warmth. The word's soft sounds perfectly match its meaning, and it has enjoyed a modern revival as a symbol of Scottish cosiness and communal warmth.
Example
Example in poetry:
"Coorie" means to snuggle, nestle, or huddle for warmth; A poet might write: "Coorie in, my bairn, the night is long, / and I will keep thee safe and strong." for a lullaby; "The lambs coorie doun in the sheltered brae / out of the blast of the winter's day." applies the word to animals; "Coorie close beneath the blanket's fold, / and let the hearthfire keep the cold." creates a scene of domestic warmth; "She cooried intae his side and slept, / the promises of love well-kept." gives the word romantic intimacy; "Let us coorie here in the lantern light / and tell oor stories through the night." turns the gesture into communal act; "The auld man cooried by the grate — / warmth was all he'd need of late." ends a life gently
Additional Notes
Coorie is among the most emotionally warm words in the Scots vocabulary — it names the physical act of seeking comfort through closeness, whether huddling against cold, nestling into a loved one, or crouching for shelter. Its sound is itself cosy: the soft initial "c" and the rounded vowels enact the curling-in motion it describes. In contemporary Scots writing it has become something of a cultural touchstone, associated with a particularly Scottish version of hygge — comfort found in modest, physical, domestic warmth rather than luxury. For poetry students, "coorie" almost always signals emotional safety or the desire for it, making it a useful key to a poem's emotional geography.
Also Known As
Snuggle Nestle Cuddle
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