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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absolute

Perfumery
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

Absolute is a highly concentrated solvent-extracted essence from plants, purest form in perfumery.

Detailed Definition
Solvent purity. Poets reference absolutes for essence and distillation of experience, mirroring poetic condensation of emotion.
Example
Example in poetry:
In John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale," the poet alludes to floral absolutes like rose absolute to evoke intense natural beauty and sensory overload in the line describing dewy wine-like scents.; A poet might write "Her skin held the absolute of jasmine, pure and unyielding, capturing the night's essence in one breath" to illustrate concentrated floral power.; Modern poets use absolute of iris to symbolize refined memory, as in verses where powdered elegance lingers like faded letters.; An educational example: "The absolute of lavender calmed the storm in his verses, distilling calm from chaos like essential serenity."; Poets employ vanilla absolute in gourmand imagery to represent comforting domesticity and sweet endurance in love poems.
Additional Notes
Absolute represents the pinnacle of natural extraction in perfumery, achieved through solvent methods that yield highly concentrated, true-to-life plant essences without the heat damage of distillation, making it ideal for delicate flowers like jasmine or rose that poets might use to evoke intense, unaltered natural beauty. For poetry students, absolutes teach the concept of essence and purity, paralleling how poets distill complex emotions into potent imagery; usage tip: pair absolute rose with animalic notes for depth in verses exploring passion, or use orris absolute for powdery sophistication in nostalgic works. Related concepts include concrète (the waxy precursor) and essential oil (steam-distilled alternative), highlighting trade-offs between fidelity and yield. Professors can discuss ethical sourcing and how absolutes' richness mirrors layered poetic devices, enhancing sensory multisensory analysis in literature classes. This context enriches understanding of how perfumers and poets both capture fleeting beauty in enduring form, with absolutes offering raw material for creative alchemy.
Also Known As
absolute oil floral absolute concrete absolute (after ethanol) pure extract infallible
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