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 Y

Yellowthroat

Birds
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 small warbler with a black mask and bright yellow throat, often in dense marshes.

Detailed Definition
Yellowthroats symbolize hidden brilliance, the voice of wet thickets, and the beauty of marginal habitats in poetry. Their “witchity-witchity” call evokes the acoustic soul of reeds and brush. Rarely seen but often heard, they represent the unseen vibrancy of overlooked places. Poets use yellowthroats to explore themes of concealment and revelation, the resilience of marsh ecosystems, and the idea that joy often sings from the densest thickets.
Example
Example in poetry:
In North American wetland poetry, the yellowthroat’s black mask and bright yellow throat symbolize hidden brilliance and the voice of dense thickets; Poets use the common yellowthroat’s “witchity-witchity” call to evoke the acoustic richness of reedy marshes and brushy edges; Ecopoets reference yellowthroats to discuss the importance of early-successional habitats and wetland conservation; Its skulking behavior—heard more than seen—inspires metaphors for concealed vitality and the unseen music of marginal spaces; The yellowthroat’s migratory journey to Central America links continents through hidden pathways of song; Its bold facial pattern appears in descriptive verse as a mark of identity and striking contrast in green worlds.
Additional Notes
Yellowthroat: A masked warbler (e.g., common yellowthroat) of marshes and thickets, yellowthroats symbolize hidden brightness, wetland song, and sudden appearances. Their “witchity-witchity” call adds rhythmic texture. In poetry, they represent concealed joy or the vibrancy of tangled margins.
Also Known As
Common Yellowthroat Masked Warbler Yellowthroat Warbler
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