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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Adage

Concept
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 pithy, traditional saying expressing a general truth or piece of folk wisdom, often used for rhetorical or thematic emphasis.

Detailed Definition
A traditional saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or observation, often incorporated into poetry for moral weight or cultural resonance. Adages provide ready-made wisdom that poets can affirm, question, or subvert. Their proverbial authority and concise phrasing make them effective for establishing themes or providing memorable conclusions. Poets may treat adages reverently, using them to anchor poems in communal wisdom, or ironically, undermining their conventional certainty to explore complexity.
Example
Example in poetry:
“A stitch in time saves nine” appears in Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s Almanack”; “The early bird catches the worm” structures moral lessons in didactic poetry; In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Coleridge embeds adages like “He prayeth best, who loveth best”; Modern poets like Billy Collins ironically repurpose adages to question inherited wisdom; Adages in African oral poetry often open performances to establish communal values.
Additional Notes
An adage in poetry is a concise, memorable saying expressing folk wisdom; when used poetically, it can anchor a theme or provide ironic contrast to the poem’s situation.
Also Known As
Proverb Maxim Aphorism Adagio
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