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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

Southeaster

Winds
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

Southeaster is a wind from the southeast, often bringing moist, warm air and unsettled weather, common in many coastal regions including the southern US and South Africa.

Detailed Definition
The southeaster is less famous than the nor'easter but equally significant in its regions. In South Africa, it is a variant of the Cape Doctor. In the US Gulf, it heralds humid, stormy conditions. In poetry, the southeaster is a wind of approach, bringing the sea's breath inland. It symbolises the persistence of marine influence, the mixing of land and water, and the slow, steady rise of atmospheric pressure. Poets use it to evoke the long, low clouds of an advancing front, the salt-laden air, and the subtle, often overlooked, shifts that precede significant change.
Example
Example in poetry:
Southeaster|Southeaster is a wind from the southeast, often bringing moist, warm air and unsettled weather, common in many coastal regions including the southern US and South Africa.|The southeaster is less famous than the nor'easter but equally significant in its regions. In South Africa, it is a variant of the Cape Doctor. In the US Gulf, it heralds humid, stormy conditions. In poetry, the southeaster is a wind of approach, bringing the sea's breath inland. It symbolizes the persistence of marine influence, the mixing of land and water, and the slow, steady rise of atmospheric pressure. Poets use it to evoke the long, low clouds of an advancing front and the subtle shifts that precede significant change.;
Additional Notes
A southeaster is a wind from the southeast, often bringing moist, warm air and unsettled weather, common in coastal regions including the southern US and South Africa. It is less famous than the nor'easter but equally significant, and in South Africa, it is a variant of the Cape Doctor. In the US Gulf, it heralds humid, stormy conditions. In poetry, the southeaster is a wind of approach, bringing the sea's breath inland, symbolizing the persistence of marine influence, the mixing of land and water, and the slow, steady rise of atmospheric pressure. Poets can use it to evoke the long, low clouds of an advancing front, the salt-laden air, and the subtle, often overlooked shifts that precede significant change. When writing about a southeaster, emphasize its moistness, its association with the sea, and its role as a precursor to change, a wind that carries the promise of rain and transformation.
Also Known As
warm gale coastal wind Australian buster
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