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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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Allocation

Viniculture
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

Allocation refers to the limited distribution of rare or highly sought-after wines to specific customers or markets.

Detailed Definition
In literary contexts, allocation symbolizes exclusivity, privilege, and the scarcity of beauty or truth. Poets may use it to critique social hierarchies or to explore themes of desire and denial. The act of being granted or denied access to a prized vintage becomes a metaphor for human connection, suggesting that some experiences are reserved for the few, intensifying their value and emotional resonance.
Example
Example in poetry:
The poet mourned the allocation system—only three bottles of the dream vintage, a ration of longing; Allocation became the meter of desire, each case doled out like scarce couplets to favored acolytes; He wrote of the allocation list as a waiting room where time fermented slower than the wine itself; Her villanelle turned allocation into a feudal rite, the lord's share reserved for those who praised the soil; Allocation was the invisible hand that chose who would taste the harvest's secret, and the poet was not chosen
Additional Notes
Allocation is the practice among top-tier wineries of distributing highly sought-after, limited-production wines not to the general public but through mailing lists or exclusive relationships, often requiring customers to purchase multiple wines in a "mixed case" or build a purchase history to gain access to the rarest bottles; this system creates an air of exclusivity and collector culture, and in poetic terms, allocation serves as a powerful symbol of privilege, longing, and the unequal distribution of beauty, where the finest vintages become the stuff of aspiration and memory, akin to a beloved poem that only a few are allowed to read; for a broader vinicultural context, allocation is tied to the concept of scarcity value, often associated with cult wineries like Domaine de la Romanée-Conti or Screaming Eagle, and it underscores how economic forces intertwine with aesthetic appreciation in the modern wine world.
Other Meanings of “Allocation”
Also Known As
limited distribution cellar ration club offering Distribution
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