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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 F

Fyre

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

The Scottish word for fire, referring to the rapid combustion of material producing heat, light, and flame, often used in regional poetry or historical texts.

Detailed Definition
Fyre is an older Scots or poetic spelling of “fire”, often carrying associations of passion, danger, purification, destruction, spiritual intensity, and creative force. In Scottish or historically flavoured poetry, the spelling can preserve dialect, period texture, or manuscript atmosphere while retaining the symbolic power of flame. It may describe erotic longing, divine wrath, domestic hearth, battle, inspiration, or peril. For students, the form shows how spelling can shape voice and mood, making a familiar image feel archaic, regional, or ceremonial.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Mark Alexander Boyd's Sonet: "And follows on a woman throw the fyre" – 'fyre' meaning fire, symbolizing destructive passion; A poet might pen: "Love's fyre consumes yet purifies the heart" to demonstrate 'fyre' as metaphor for intense emotion; Educational example: "The fyre o' inspiration leaps frae page to page" showing 'fyre' for creative energy in artistic verse; In warning: "Beware the fyre that rages uncontrolled" illustrating 'fyre' for dangerous force in moral poetry; Hypothetical usage: "Her smile kindles a fyre that warms the wintry saul" to use 'fyre' for warming affection.
Additional Notes
Fyre represents fire in both literal and symbolic senses—passion, destruction, purification—in Older Scots poetry; Boyd associates it with perilous following; students can deploy it for transformative or warning motifs; usage note: its sharp sound heightens intensity; links to hearth imagery in domestic verse and classical fire symbols adapted into Scottish Renaissance works.
Also Known As
Fire
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