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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

Guid

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

Good; the Scots form of "good," carrying warm approval and moral affirmation.

Detailed Definition
"Guid" is a cornerstone of Scots vocabulary, appearing in moral, social, and affectionate contexts throughout the literary tradition. Burns's "A Man's a Man for a' That" uses related forms to assert the worth of honest labour, and "guid" permeates Scottish song and verse as a marker of genuine value. Its vowel distinguishes it clearly from English "good," and in poetry it carries the particular warmth of a word that has been used with meaning across centuries of Scots expression.
Example
Example in poetry:
"Guid" means good; Burns writes "Auld lang syne" and "And there's a hand, my trusty fiere, / And gie's a hand o' thine, / And we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet, / For auld lang syne"; also "For honest men and bonnie lasses" shows his use of "guid"; A poet might write: "A guid word spoken in time / is worth far more than silver or rhyme." praises timely kindness; "She was a guid and steady soul / who kept her neighbours' spirits whole." characterises reliable goodness; "Guid kail and honest company — / is all the luxury I need." expresses simple contentment; "Guid nicht, the stars are hame and bright — / we'll rest ourselves till morning light." closes a day gently; "For guid or ill the deed is done — / the consequence already spun." uses the word philosophically
Additional Notes
Guid is the Scots form of "good" and carries in Scots verse a moral and social weight that its brevity barely suggests. The "guid folk" are the respectable community; "guid" used ironically in Burns's "Address to the Unco Guid" becomes a devastating critique of self-righteous virtue. "Guidman" and "guidwife" are the master and mistress of a household — terms of social dignity. The word's range from simple approval to complex irony makes it one of the most important adjectives in Scots verse. Students should always ask whether "guid" in a given poem is being used sincerely or ironically, since Burns and later poets deploy both registers with great skill.
Also Known As
Good Virtuous Proper
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