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 K

kist

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

In Scots Dialect, a kist is a chest or large wooden box used for storing possessions; it can also sometimes mean a coffin.

Detailed Definition
“Kist” is a traditional Scots word for a chest, especially a sturdy wooden storage chest for clothing, household goods, or personal belongings. In poetry, it may evoke domestic life, memory, and absence because such a chest can stand for the person whose possessions it holds. Although “kist” can also mean “coffin” in some Scots uses, Violet Jacob’s poem uses it in the sense of a storage chest.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Violet Jacob’s “Hallowe’en,” the speaker says: “The bothie fire is loupin’ het, A new heid horseman’s kist is set Richts o’ the lum; whaur by the blaze The auld ane stude that kept yer claes—” Here, the kist is a head horseman’s chest, placed beside the chimney where Lachlan’s old chest once stood. The old kist “kept yer claes” (“kept your clothes”), so its missing presence becomes a painful reminder that Lachlan has died abroad in France.
Additional Notes
Dialect: Scots. Meaning in standard English: chest, trunk, or storage box. Related use: A kist may also refer to a coffin, particularly in older or regional Scots usage. Context determines which meaning is intended. Etymology: The word comes through Scots from Old Norse kista, meaning “chest” or “box.” Usage tip: Do not assume that “kist” always means a coffin. In domestic settings, especially when associated with clothes or household possessions, it usually means a storage chest.
Other Meanings of “kist”
Also Known As
Chest Coffer Wooden Box Treasure Chest
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