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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 S

Scar

Landscape
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 steep bare rock face or cliff, especially in northern English landscapes. It often rises abruptly above pasture or dale.

Detailed Definition
A scar is a prominent escarpment or limestone cliff, frequently appearing as a pale, broken wall above fields or valleys. Poets can use its stark exposure to contrast with softer grass, livestock, and streams below. Its ledges may hold birds, sparse flowers, or old nests, adding precarious life to the stone. Because the word also suggests a wound, a landscape scar can carry emotional resonance, making visible the marks left by pressure, weather, and time.
Example
Example in poetry:
The quarry was a scar in the hill, exposing pale stone beneath the grass; A scar can be a literal mark on land and a metaphor for violence, mining, war, or memory; The road cut a scar across the moor, and the speaker compares it to an old wound that will not close; In Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Binsey Poplars,” felled trees leave a damaged landscape, showing how human action can scar a place
Additional Notes
In northern English landscape vocabulary, a scar is a steep exposed face or outcrop of rock, particularly familiar in the Pennines and limestone country. The word appears frequently in place names and regional writing, where recognising its geographical meaning prevents confusion with the bodily scar. Poets may deliberately exploit both senses, making damaged or exposed landscape resemble wounded flesh. Texture, erosion, height, and barrenness are often significant. Compare crag, cliff, escarpment, scree, limestone pavement, fell, outcrop, precipice, geological imagery, and landscape personification.
Also Known As
Scarp Escarpment Cliff
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