A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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

cur

Archaic Terms
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 mongrel dog; a contemptible or surly person—used as an insult, often in dramatic or satirical contexts.

Detailed Definition
“Cur” dehumanizes through canine comparison, common in insults (“base cur”). In poetry, it denotes low birth, aggression, or servility. Its brevity and harshness suit dramatic curses or social satire. The term’s animalistic connotation strips dignity, making it potent in class-based or moral invective, especially in Renaissance drama where honor is paramount.
Example
Example in poetry:
"A mangy cur barked at the moon," in a grotesque image; In Shakespeare’s King Lear: "The small gilded fly does lecher in my sight... / The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to’t / With a more riotous appetite... / But to the galled jade the world’s a stew, / And all things there are as they are, / To the cur that bites the lip"; "He was called cur, yet bore a lion’s heart"; "The cur of envy snaps at virtue’s heels"; "Treat me not as a cur," pleads the wronged servant; The knight’s cur followed him to death.
Additional Notes
“Cur” dehumanizes by comparing a person to a mongrel dog; in invective poetry or social satire, it attacks low birth, aggression, or servility, and often appears in curses or battlefield taunts to deny enemy dignity.
Also Known As
dog mongrel rascal tyke
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