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 B

Barle

River
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 tributary of the River Exe in southwest England, flowing through Exmoor National Park.

Detailed Definition
The Barle’s wild, unspoiled course through Exmoor makes it a symbol of English pastoral innocence and ecological purity. It appears in regional poetry and nature writing as a retreat from modernity, embodying tranquility and the untouched beauty of moorland streams.
Example
Example in poetry:
The Barle, a tributary of the Exe in Exmoor, appears in nature poetry as a wild, unspoiled Dartmoor stream; Ted Hughes might have admired its rugged banks as habitat for otters and curlews; Regional poets use Barle to evoke solitude and rugged English landscape; In conservation poetry, the Barle symbolizes the fragility of upland ecosystems; Its peat-stained waters inspire images of time and memory in lyric meditations; Contemporary poets contrast Barle’s natural course with engineered lowland rivers.
Additional Notes
The Barle, a pristine Exmoor tributary of the Exe, exemplifies the English upland “wild river”—unspoiled, peat-stained, and rich in biodiversity; often cited in nature writing and conservation poetry, it serves as a counterpoint to engineered lowland waterways; poets may use the Barle to explore solitude, ecological fragility, or the sensory textures of moorland hydrology.
Also Known As
River Barle
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