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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

Wheesht

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

Be quiet! Hush! A command for silence, often affectionate but firm.

Detailed Definition
"Wheesht" is among the most expressive of Scots exclamations, its own hushing sound enacting the silence it demands. It appears in lullabies and poems of intimate domestic life, spoken to crying children or noisy companions, and its sound is simultaneously commanding and gentle. The "wh" beginning and the final "sht" create a perfect phonological hush, and in verse "wheesht" can carry tenderness, exasperation, or the authority of someone who knows when silence is more valuable than speech. It is a word that holds language and its absence in perfect balance.
Example
Example in poetry:
"Wheesht" means hush, be quiet, or silence; A poet might write: "Wheesht now, bairn, the night is deep — / let the burn and the birches sleep." as a lullaby command; "She said wheesht tae the chattering crowd — / and silence fell, and something bowed." shows the power of commanding stillness; "Wheesht a while and hear the land — / it speaks in ways ye'll understand." uses the word as an invitation to listen; "He wheeshted his own heart's grief one day — / and found the grief had more tae say." shows how suppression fails; "Wheesht: the heron stands in the shallows still — / a patience deeper than human will." uses the command to direct attention to nature; "Even the storm will wheesht at last — / nae tempest made is built tae last." applies the word to natural cycles
Additional Notes
Wheesht is an evocative Scots imperative meaning “be quiet” or “hush,” often used with tones ranging from affectionate reassurance to stern rebuke. In poetry and dramatic verse, it can instantly create voice, domestic realism, or oral immediacy. The sound of the word itself is expressive, almost onomatopoeic, mimicking the hush it commands. Writers may use it to control narrative tension, silence gossip, calm a child, or heighten suspense. Compare with hush and hist. For literary analysis, wheesht demonstrates how Scots vocabulary often carries sonic as well as semantic force.
Also Known As
Hush Be quiet Hist
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