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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 D

deer

Fauna
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 deer is a hoofed ruminant mammal, typically with antlers in males, symbolizing gentleness, grace, and natural innocence in poetry.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, the deer often appears as a creature of woodland solitude and quiet beauty, embodying elusiveness, vulnerability, and the fleeting nature of pastoral life. Its antlers, which are shed and regrown, lend themselves to images of cyclical renewal and the passage of seasons. From medieval hunting lyrics to Romantic nature verse, the deer evokes a sense of untamed wildness tempered by a delicate, almost spiritual presence, frequently used as a contrast to human ambition or as a symbol of the hunted soul seeking refuge.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem describes a deer's graceful movement: "The quiet opening between fence strands... the deer poured through".; Another captures its mysterious presence: "Deer at twilight".; The deer can symbolize gentleness and elusiveness.; Its role in Native American culture is noted in "The rejuvenescence of the deer’s life and spirit".; A poet might use the deer to evoke the magic of a sighting.
Additional Notes
The deer's gentle, elusive nature makes it one of the most frequently used fauna terms in poetry, appearing in everything from medieval hunting lyrics to Romantic nature verse. Its antlers, which are shed and regrown annually, offer a powerful metaphor for cyclical renewal, death and rebirth, and the passage of seasons. In Celtic and Arthurian legend, the deer often leads heroes into otherworldly realms, serving as a guide between worlds. The deer's fleet-footedness and sensitivity to danger make it a symbol of innocence and vulnerability, but also of grace and natural beauty. When writing about deer, consider the specific type—stag, doe, fawn—and the tradition you wish to evoke, from the hunted creature of medieval poaching narratives to the sacred animal of Celtic myth.
Also Known As
antlered grazer woodland fleet gentle cervid hart
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