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 F

foal

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 foal is a young horse, typically in its first year, characterized by long, wobbly legs and playful curiosity, symbolizing new beginnings, potential, and the awkward, promising dawn of life.

Detailed Definition
The foal's stumbling first steps and bright, open eyes make it a perfect poetic emblem for the freshness of youth and the promise of future greatness. Its gangly proportions and skittish energy capture the vulnerability and charm of early development. Poets use the foal to evoke spring mornings, the start of journeys, and the tender, watchful care required to raise a living creature, often contrasting its unformed grace with the mature power of the stallion or the steady reliability of the mare.
Example
Example in poetry:
William Renton's "The Foal" describes the young horse: "The mouse-brown foal that fain had fed From off the green his mother crops".; A poet might write, "And the foal slept at her side, a heap of feathers ripped from a bed".; The foal can symbolize new beginnings and potential.; Its wobbly legs represent awkward grace.; The animal's playfulness evokes youth.
Additional Notes
The foal, with its long, wobbly legs and playful curiosity, symbolizes new beginnings, potential, and the awkward, promising dawn of life. Its gangly proportions and skittish energy capture the vulnerability and charm of early development. Poets often use the foal to evoke spring mornings, the start of journeys, and the tender, watchful care required to raise a living creature. The foal's first attempts to stand and run offer a powerful metaphor for human endeavors, for the learning of new skills, and for the universal experience of growth. When writing, consider the contrast between the foal's unformed grace and the mature power of the stallion or the steady reliability of the mare.
Other Meanings of “foal”
Also Known As
young equine newborn colt spring meadow runner
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