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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tyke

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

A mongrel dog; a contemptible or surly person—used as an insult in dramatic or satirical characterizations.

Detailed Definition
“Tyke” dehumanizes through canine comparison, common in regional insult. In poetry, it labels low status or aggression. The term’s harshness suits mockery. Poets use it to explore class contempt or rustic identity, where tykes embody marginality or tenacity, reinforcing themes of social hierarchy, resilience, and animalistic metaphor in comic and descriptive contexts.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The shepherd’s tyke barked at the wolf,” in a rustic lyric; In dialect poetry: “A loyal tyke, though scruffy”; “The tyke followed his master to war”; “Call him not tyke—a true friend”; “The tyke’s growl warned of danger”; The tyke slept at the hearth.
Additional Notes
“Tyke” degrades through canine comparison; in invective or class satire, it attacks low birth or surly demeanor, often used by elites to demean rural or working-class figures as uncivilized or aggressive.
Also Known As
cur mongrel rascal
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