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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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 apple is a fruit image in poetry that can suggest nourishment, beauty, desire, knowledge, temptation, harvest, or the passage from ripeness to decay.

Detailed Definition
Poets use apples both as vivid sensory details and as symbols whose meaning depends on context. A ripe apple may evoke autumn, abundance, rural life, love, or bodily desire, while a fallen or bruised apple can suggest loss, mortality, or time’s effects. Apples are often associated with the biblical story of Eden, although the Bible does not specifically name the forbidden fruit as an apple. Their familiar shape, color, scent, and sweetness make them especially useful in lyrical and symbolic writing.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking,” the speaker’s apple harvest becomes a larger reflection on exhaustion, dreams, work, and the approach of sleep or death. The apples are not merely fruit; they carry the emotional weight of a season ending.
Additional Notes
Apple imagery is common in poems about autumn, orchards, harvest, childhood, and domestic life. Depending on the poem, an apple may symbolize temptation or forbidden knowledge, particularly through later artistic associations with Eden. In Greek mythology, apples can be linked with love, beauty, rivalry, and divine judgment, as in the golden apple connected to the Judgment of Paris. A “golden apple” may therefore have different meanings from an ordinary orchard apple. The word comes from Old English æppel, which could refer broadly to fruit, not only the specific fruit now called an apple. Avoid assuming that every apple is symbolic: poets may use apples simply for their concrete sensory qualities, such as crispness, color, scent, or taste.
Other Meanings of “apple”
Also Known As
Apple Fruit Orchard Fruit Forbidden Fruit Pomaceous Fruit
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