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

stookit

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

“Stookit” is a Scots Dialect past-tense form meaning arranged harvested grain into stooks, or small groups of upright sheaves, so they could dry before collection.

Detailed Definition
In agricultural Scots, to stook grain is to stand or group cut sheaves together in the field, allowing them to dry after reaping. In Violet Jacob’s poem, “We’ve stookit the hairst” means “We have gathered and arranged the harvest into stooks,” placing the speaker in a rural harvest setting. The word also helps preserve the poem’s Scots voice and its close connection to traditional farm work.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Bonnie Joann, Violet Jacob writes: “We’ve stookit the hairst an’ we’re needin’ To gaither it in,” Here, “stookit the hairst” means that the harvest has been cut and arranged in stooks, while the speaker says it still needs to be gathered in. The surrounding reference to “the stooks” confirms the agricultural sense of the word.
Additional Notes
“Stookit” is a Scots Dialect form related to the verb stook, meaning to arrange sheaves in a stook. A stook is traditionally a group of cut grain sheaves set upright in a field to dry; the exact number of sheaves can vary by region and custom. The related word hairst means “harvest” in Scots. In this poem, “stookit” is a past-tense or past-participial form, corresponding roughly to standard English stooked or, in a less specialized translation, arranged the harvested grain. It should not be confused with “stacked”: stooking refers specifically to field-drying sheaves before they are collected into larger stacks.
Also Known As
Harvested Gathered gatherèd
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