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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Atrium

Architecture
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 central open court or hall within a building. In poetry, it can represent an inner gathering place, light admitted into enclosure, or social encounter.

Detailed Definition
An atrium brings openness into the middle of a structure, often admitting sky, plants, water, or a shifting pattern of light. Poets can use it to imagine the heart of a house, institution, or self: a place where separate rooms face one another. Its mixture of shelter and exposure makes it especially suited to poems about family, public life, and inward reflection. A quiet atrium may hold echoes and waiting, while a crowded one can dramatize the circulation of voices and desires.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Light fell through the atrium and pooled around the fountain” establishes an interior scene through architectural detail; The atrium becomes a meeting place where several family voices cross beneath an open roof; A poet can use the atrium's upward openness to connect domestic life with weather and sky; Describing plants, glass, water, and echo helps make an atrium vivid without merely naming it
Additional Notes
An atrium is an interior center that admits air, light, and people, so it can symbolize emotional openness within an otherwise closed world. In a poem, it may become a place of meeting, memory, or revelation. Notice the productive contrast between private rooms around it and its shared central space.
Also Known As
Courtyard Inner Court
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