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 A

Appellation

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

An appellation is a legally defined and protected geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine were grown.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, appellation signifies rootedness, origin, and the power of place. It anchors the wine—and by extension, the poet or speaker—to a specific soil and history. This term allows verses to explore themes of identity, belonging, and authenticity, contrasting the universal language of taste with the particularity of local tradition and legal boundary.
Example
Example in poetry:
Appellation is the signature of a place, the poet insisted, a name that holds a hillside's entire diary; She wrote of appellation as the fixed star in a sailor's night, granting each wine its true north; In his epic, the appellation was a covenant between farmer and stone, a boundary drawn in centuries of roots; The poet tasted the chalk and marl and knew the appellation was not a label but a confession; Appellation became the refrain in his verse—a sacred word that demanded the vintage be authentic to its grave
Additional Notes
An appellation is a legally defined and protected geographical indication that specifies exactly where a wine's grapes were grown, and it is governed by strict regulations covering permitted grape varieties, viticultural practices, maximum yields, and aging requirements, ensuring that the wine reflects its place of origin; in France, the system is known as AOC (Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée), in Italy as DOCG, and in the U.S. as AVA, but all share the core idea that the land itself dictates the wine's identity, a concept that underpins the entire philosophy of terroir; for students, understanding appellations is essential to reading a wine label and appreciating its narrative, and in poetry, the appellation functions like a poem's title or epigraph—a signpost that anchors the sensory experience in a specific geography and history, giving the wine a voice from a particular slope, soil, and season.
Also Known As
origin designation controlled name terroir label Nominatio
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