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 H

Humber

River
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 major estuary in northeastern England formed by the confluence of the Trent and Ouse rivers, historically significant as a boundary and maritime gateway.

Detailed Definition
The Humber estuary has served as a natural boundary and cultural threshold in English history and poetry, marking the divide between north and south since Anglo-Saxon times. Its role in trade, invasion, and industry imbues it with layered symbolism—from the Norse sagas to modern reflections on post-industrial decline. Poets reference the Humber to evoke liminality, resilience, and the meeting of land and sea, often using its gray, tidal waters as metaphors for memory, transition, and national identity. Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” famously invokes “the banks of the Humber” to contrast local stillness with cosmic urgency, cementing its place in literary imagination.
Example
Example in poetry:
The Humber appears in Anglo-Saxon poetry as “Humbra” in “Exodus,” symbolizing exile and crossing; Philip Larkin’s “The Whitsun Weddings” opens on a train crossing the Humber, framing national transition; Contemporary Hull poets reclaim Humber as site of cultural regeneration; Eco-poets cite Humber’s estuary as vital migratory bird habitat under threat; The Humber’s tidal power inspires poems on energy, flux, and resilience; Regional verse contrasts Humber’s industrial past with green estuary futures.
Additional Notes
The Humber estuary—formed by the Trent and Ouse—has been a boundary, crossing, and gateway since Anglo-Saxon times; Larkin’s opening image in “The Whitsun Weddings” (train crossing the Humber) frames it as threshold of national transformation; today, it symbolizes post-industrial reinvention and vital wetland ecology in northeastern England.
Also Known As
Humber Estuary
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