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 D

dreesome

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

“Dreesome” is a Dialect adjective meaning gloomy, lonely, sorrowful, or bleak, especially in a way that makes time or suffering feel hard to endure.

Detailed Definition
Used chiefly in northern English and Scots Dialects, “dreesome” describes a heavy feeling of sadness, desolation, or weariness. It can apply to a place, time, weather, or emotional state. In poetry, the word’s sound and Dialect character can deepen an atmosphere of rural hardship and grief.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Frederic William Moorman’s “Lile Doad,” the grieving mother says: “But cowd an’ dreesome were our hearts: We knew lile Doad must dee.” Here, “dreesome” means more than simply sad. The parents’ hearts are cold, bleak, and weighed down by the knowledge that their child is dying. The Dialect word intensifies the poem’s stark, mournful mood.
Additional Notes
“Dreesome” is associated especially with northern English regional speech, including Yorkshire Dialect, and with Scots usage. It is related in meaning to words such as “dreary,” “dismal,” “lonesome,” “mournful,” and “weary.” The term may suggest not only sadness but also something prolonged or difficult to bear, such as a long winter, a lonely road, or a period of grief. In “Lile Doad,” Moorman uses Dialect spellings such as “cowd” for “cold” and “dee” for “die.” “Dreesome” belongs to this Dialect voice and helps root the speaker’s grief in a particular rural community and speech tradition.
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