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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 G

gale

Nautical
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 strong wind, typically between force 8 and 10 on the Beaufort scale, capable of damaging sails and rigging.

Detailed Definition
The gale is the sea's serious voice, a prolonged and powerful wind that transforms the ocean into a battlefield. In poetry, it symbolizes sustained adversity, the grinding, days-long trial that wears down both body and spirit. Unlike the sudden squall, the gale is a protracted siege, a test of endurance and preparation. Poets use the gale to evoke the heroic struggle, the unyielding force of nature against which human perseverance is measured. The gale's howling in the rigging is a classic soundtrack for dramatic poetry, and its gradual abatement is a profound relief, a second birth from the fury.
Example
Example in poetry:
The gale in poetry symbolizes sustained adversity, the grinding, days-long trial that wears down both body and spirit.; Unlike the sudden squall, the gale is a protracted siege, a test of endurance and preparation.; Poets use the gale to evoke the heroic struggle, the unyielding force of nature against which human perseverance is measured.; The gale’s howling in the rigging is a classic soundtrack for dramatic poetry.; Its gradual abatement is a profound relief, a second birth from the fury.; The gale is the sea’s serious voice, a prolonged and powerful wind that transforms the ocean into a battlefield.
Additional Notes
A gale is a strong, sustained wind, powerful enough to damage rigging and transform the sea into a battlefield. In poetry, it symbolizes prolonged adversity, the grinding, days-long trial that wears down both body and spirit. Unlike a sudden squall, the gale is a protracted siege, a test of endurance, preparation, and the will to survive. Poets use the gale to evoke the heroic struggle, the unyielding force of nature against which human perseverance is measured. The howl of the gale in the rigging is a classic and terrifying soundtrack for dramatic verse. Its gradual abatement is felt as a profound relief, a second birth from the fury, making it a powerful metaphor for weathering life's most enduring and exhausting challenges.
Other Meanings of “gale”
Also Known As
Strong breeze storm wind moderate gale fresh gale tempest Ironwind
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