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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 P

port

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 Irish poetic and musical tradition, a tune or melody, also used in older texts to mean a harbour or gateway, creating a word that bridges musical and spatial liminality in verse.

Detailed Definition
Port in its musical sense refers to a short instrumental piece or tune, often lively, associated with the uilleann pipes or fiddle tradition. In older Irish its spatial sense (harbour, port, gateway) gives the word a double resonance useful in poetry — the tune as a threshold, music as a place of entry into another world or state of feeling. Poets have exploited this ambiguity to suggest that music itself is a kind of passage. In the context of Irish verse the word connects the domestic world of communal music-making to the larger tradition of ceol as a spiritual and cultural force.
Example
Example in poetry:
The port provides harbor for boats returning from fishing voyages; Poets describe the port as place of reunion and relief from danger; The port connects local communities with wider maritime trade networks; The port serves as threshold between land stability and sea uncertainty; Songs of the port celebrate safe returns and mourn those lost at sea; The port symbolizes both departure and arrival in journey metaphors.
Additional Notes
Port in Irish poetic tradition refers to a tune or melody, but also to a harbor or gateway. This dual meaning allows poets to link musical expression with journeys and arrivals. The port is a place of transition, where ships depart and return. In poetry, it symbolizes connection to the wider world and the risks of travel. The port is also a site of farewell and reunion, charged with emotion. Understanding port helps interpret the maritime metaphors in Irish verse.
Other Meanings of “port”
Also Known As
tune melody air harbor gateway haven
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