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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Sairling

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 minor but persistent ache, like an overlooked grievance; in dialect poetry, it’s a concrete detail that grounds emotional pain in a physical, bodily experience.

Detailed Definition
Sairling names a physical or emotional pain that is not dramatic enough to stop work but never fully disappears. In verse it may live in a knee, a house, a marriage, or a remembered name. The word gives dignity to low-level suffering and recognizes how people carry it while performing daily tasks. A sairling can also become a measure of time, since its recurrence quietly marks the years more accurately than calendars do.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Sairling” can suggest a sorrowful, tender, or aching person or mood; “The sairling child held the empty mitten to her chest”; A poet can use “sairling” to express pain without stating the emotion directly; “His sairling song trembled above the ruined pier.”
Additional Notes
Sairling is a small, persistent ache that remains beneath ordinary tasks. It need not be dramatic; its power comes from being carried quietly through work, conversation, or routine. The term suits grief, homesickness, bodily discomfort, or an unresolved memory. Its Scots flavor links it to “sair,” meaning sore or painful, while the diminutive ending makes the hurt feel intimate.
Also Known As
Fledgling Youngling Newborn
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