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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Kailyard hush

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

A Scots term for the quiet intimacy among garden plots, herbs, and household work; in poetry, it evokes rural domestic peace, the gentle privacy of tended earth.

Detailed Definition
Kailyard hush is the small silence found close to home, where plants, tools, and routine create a protected world. A poem may place a confession, mourning, or secret hope within it, making the garden a listening chamber. The phrase suggests that domestic labor can hold powerful emotions without announcing them. It is useful for poems in which the speaker finds refuge not in wilderness but in a tended, familiar patch of earth.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Kailyard hush” can describe the quiet of a small garden or enclosed rural plot: “A Kailyard hush settled over the cabbages at noon”; The phrase can evoke modest domestic cultivation and close observation; “In the Kailyard hush, a bee worked the last flower”; A poet may use it to contrast a sheltered garden with the noise of the wider world.
Additional Notes
Kailyard hush names a small domestic quiet among kitchen gardens and household tasks. “Kailyard” traditionally suggests a cabbage or vegetable plot, often linked with modest rural life. The term conveys privacy, routine, and a pause within busy work.
Also Known As
Garden Silence Yard Stillness Homestead Quiet
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