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.

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 M

mitts

Apparel
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 type of glove that covers the hand but leaves the fingers partly free, or a thick, padded glove for cold weather or baseball, appearing in poetry as a symbol of childhood play and practical warmth.

Detailed Definition
Mitts are distinct from gloves by their design—either fingerless or with a separate compartment for the thumb. In poetry, mitts often evoke the Victorian or Edwardian era, where ladies wore delicate lace or silk mitts that left their fingers bare for work or social display. In modern poetry, mitts are more likely to be the thick, woolen ones worn by children in snow, or the baseball mitts of summer. These carry strong nostalgic associations with youth, family, and seasonal change. In love poetry, a child's mitten lost in the snow can be a symbol of a past innocence. The coziness of mitts, their warmth and softness, makes them a garment of comfort, and their simple, functional design aligns with poems about everyday life and memory.
Example
Example in poetry:
"Her lace mitts left her fingers free for work and for flirtation"; "He pulled on his woolen mitts and felt the cold retreat"; "The mitts, knitted by his grandmother, still held the shape of her hands"; "She lost a mitten in the snow and the winter claimed it"; "The mitts' thick yarn was the only defense against the howling wind"; "He took off his mitts and blew on his fingers, a man of the north"
Additional Notes
Mitts are distinct from gloves by their design—either fingerless or with a separate compartment for the thumb. In poetry, mitts often evoke the Victorian or Edwardian era, where ladies wore delicate lace or silk mitts that left their fingers bare for work or social display. In modern poetry, mitts are more likely to be the thick, woolen ones worn by children in snow, or the baseball mitts of summer. These carry strong nostalgic associations with youth, family, and seasonal change. In love poetry, a child's mitten lost in the snow can be a symbol of a past innocence. The coziness of mitts, their warmth and softness, makes them a garment of comfort. Related terms include gloves, gauntlets, and mittens. Students should note the mitt's ability to signal either Victorian elegance or childhood nostalgia, depending on context.
Also Known As
fingerless gloves hand warmers half-gloves
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