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

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hecht

Archaic Terms
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

hecht: An archaic Scottish term meaning to promise or vow, often with romantic connotations, evoking solemn pledges, chivalric oaths, and the binding power of spoken word.

Detailed Definition
The word 'hecht' is derived from Scots and signifies making a promise or vow, particularly in the context of love or commitment. In the poem, the speaker recalls how 'He hecht me baith rings and mony braw things,' indicating the promises made by her lover, which adds depth to her emotional turmoil.
Example
Example in poetry:
"He said he saw naething sae lovely as me; He hecht me baith rings and mony braw things—" (Scots for 'promised'); "He hecht to return by dawn" (promise); "She hecht her love eternal" (romantic); "The king hecht great rewards" (political); "Nae man can hecht what fate will give" (proverbial)
Additional Notes
The use of 'hecht' emphasizes the promises made by the lover, which are central to the speaker's feelings of loss and longing.; Found in the poem, Werena my Heart licht I wad dee by Lady Grizel Baillie
Also Known As
promised vowed named called
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