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 W

Wean

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

A child or young baby; a term of endearment for a small child in Scotland.

Detailed Definition
"Wean" is one of the most tender words in Scots, naming the small child with all the affection and protectiveness that relationship demands. It appears in lullabies, poems of motherhood, and elegies for lost children, and it carries the weight of care and vulnerability that the word "child" sometimes lacks. In Scottish working-class poetry of the twentieth century, "wean" grounds verse in the realities of urban family life, and it remains a living, vital word in Scots spoken today, connecting contemporary speech to centuries of parental tenderness.
Example
Example in poetry:
"Wean" means a young child; A poet might write: "The wee wean slept by the fire's low glow — / its breath as soft as the first of snow." for a lullaby scene; "She raised her wean wi' little but love — / nae wealth below but enough above." celebrates maternal dedication; "The wean would ask the oldest questions — / why the stars and where the wind went." captures childhood wonder; "A wean's laugh fills a house like light — / nae corner left in sorrow's night." uses the child to represent joy; "The wean grew up and faced the wide — / but home still walked beside its stride." shows how childhood shapes the adult; "Every wean deserves a world of peace — / a simple truth that will not cease." uses the word for a moral statement
Additional Notes
Wean, derived historically from “wee one,” is an affectionate Scots term for a child and frequently appears in domestic, sentimental, and working-class poetry. It often carries warmth, tenderness, vulnerability, or family intimacy rather than simply denoting age. In literary contexts, a wean may symbolise innocence, continuity, poverty, or future hope. Compare with bairn, another major Scots term for child, though nuances of usage may differ regionally. For students of Scottish literature, recognising familial vocabulary like this is essential for understanding emotional register and cultural realism in vernacular verse.
Also Known As
Bairn Wee one Child
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