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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thrawn

Archaic Terms
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

Twisted, crooked, or perverse; obstinate or stubborn, used in Scottish dialect to describe contrary or difficult temperaments.

Detailed Definition
"Thrawn" is the Scottish past participle of "throw" in its sense of twist or turn, meaning physically twisted or crooked, and metaphorically perverse, obstinate, or contrary in temperament. Scottish poetry valued it for dialectal authenticity and for its dual literal and figurative meanings. Burns and other Scottish poets employed it when describing both physical deformity and temperamental stubbornness. The term's suggestion that difficult personalities were somehow twisted or bent made character judgment concrete and physical. Poets used "thrawn" when depicting contrary, stubborn, or perversely difficult characters where standard "stubborn" seemed inadequate. Its dialectal specificity made it valuable for regional authenticity and cultural distinctiveness. The word exemplifies how Scottish vocabulary enriched English literary language with terms carrying additional cultural and regional associations. Its physical meaning (twisted) grounding its metaphorical sense (contrary) provided vivid imagery for abstract temperamental qualities.
Example
Example in poetry:
Twisted, crooked, or perverse in disposition; A thrawn branch reached across the forest path; The old man's thrawn nature made him disagree with everyone; Scottish poetry uses thrawn to describe stubborn or contrary people; Her thrawn ways brought sorrow to those who loved her; The thrawn oak had weathered centuries of storms
Additional Notes
“Thrawn,” from Scots dialect, describes something twisted, stubborn, or perverse. In poetry, it can depict both physical distortion and obstinate character. Its regional flavour lends authenticity to Scottish verse, where it often conveys moral or emotional intractability. Recognising dialectal terms like this helps readers appreciate the texture of regional poetic voices.
Also Known As
twisted perverse crooked stubborn
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