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.

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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Autumnal Equinox

Seasons
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

The autumn equinox, when day and night stand in near balance before darkness grows. It suggests ripeness, reflection, and decline.

Detailed Definition
Autumnal equinox is the yearly point at which light and dark are nearly equal as the northern year turns toward winter. Poets use it as a hinge between abundance and loss, often placing harvested fields, migrating birds, or fading leaves beside the coming cold. Its brief balance can embody maturity, acceptance, or the recognition that every fullness contains its ending. The term is especially useful in meditative poems concerned with time, aging, and seasonal recurrence.
Example
Example in poetry:
"At autumnal equinox, dusk and dawn divide the field alike" emphasizes seasonal balance; A poet can use the autumnal equinox to begin a meditation on aging and decline; "The autumnal equinox weighed one gold leaf against one star" joins harvest imagery to nightfall; Equinox imagery can contrast equal daylight with the unequal losses of autumn
Additional Notes
The autumnal equinox often serves as a threshold image: harvest is near completion, but darker days follow. It can deepen poems of maturity, memory, and change.
Also Known As
Fall Equinox September Equinox
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