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

Home › Glossary › Letter S

sruth

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

The Irish word for a stream or current, used in poetry to evoke the flowing movement of time, the persistence of natural life, and the connection between the living world and the ever-moving forces of water.

Detailed Definition
Sruth describes the smaller, more intimate water-movement than the great waves of tonn — the stream rather than the sea, the river's current rather than the ocean's surge. In Irish poetry it carries associations of continuous gentle motion, the passing of seasons, and the kind of beauty that sustains rather than overwhelms. The sruth through a valley is a feature of the idealised Irish landscape — cool, clear, musical — that appears in pastoral verse from the early nature lyrics to nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish poetry. Its sound quality, soft and flowing, made it a favourite in verse that sought to capture the acoustic texture of the Irish countryside.
Example
Example in poetry:
The sruth flows continuously carving path through landscape; Poets compare passage of time to relentless movement of sruth; The sruth provides water source essential for agricultural communities; Fishing in the sruth requires knowledge of currents and fish behavior; The sruth connects inland areas with coastal regions and beyond; The sruth symbolizes both constancy and inevitable change in philosophical verse.
Additional Notes
Sruth (stream/current) in Irish poetry evokes the flowing movement of time, water, or life. It suggests continuity, persistence, and natural rhythm. Poets use sruth imagery to describe the passage of events or emotions. The sruth can be gentle or turbulent, reflecting different states of being. It connects inland areas to the sea, symbolizing journey and connection. Understanding sruth helps interpret the dynamic quality of Irish verse, where stillness is rare and movement is constant.
Also Known As
stream current flow riverlet
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