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

Barque

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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

A small sailing vessel, often used as an image of passage or peril.

Detailed Definition
A barque is a small sailing vessel, commonly associated with coastal travel, trade, fishing, or romantic seafaring. In poetry, it can carry speakers across literal water or symbolize a soul moving through uncertainty, memory, love, or death. Its modest scale makes it especially useful for intimate voyages, where a lone traveler confronts weather, distance, and fate. Poets may contrast the fragile barque with the vastness of sea and sky.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, “It is the star to every wandering bark” uses bark, a variant of barque, for a ship guided by love; “A barque of lanterns drifted down the moonlit river” gives the vessel a delicate visual presence; The poet may use “barque” instead of “boat” to create an elevated or old-fashioned nautical tone; “My small barque crossed the dark water of grief” turns the vessel into a metaphor for personal endurance; “Beyond the harbour, the barque leaned into the wind” uses the ship’s movement to suggest departure and adventure
Additional Notes
A barque is a small sailing vessel, and in poetry it often carries meanings beyond its literal nautical sense. Poets may use it to suggest a person's journey through life, an uncertain voyage, exile, trade, discovery, or danger at sea. Its smallness can emphasize human vulnerability before wind, waves, fate, or time. Notice surrounding imagery such as harbours, storms, sails, anchors, and distant shores, which can clarify whether the barque represents hope, escape, loss, or spiritual passage. Related transport images include ship, boat, skiff, vessel, and ark.
Also Known As
Bark Barcan
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