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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Barrique

Viniculture
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 oak barrel, traditionally holding about 225 liters, used for fermentation or aging.

Detailed Definition
A barrique gives wine a confined wooden room in which oxygen, toast, tannin, and time quietly negotiate. Its oak may suggest vanilla, spice, smoke, or cedar, while its rounded form carries the intimacy of a vessel held close to the body. In poetry, the barrique can become a chamber of patience, where raw juice is sheltered, altered, and taught the slow grammar of becoming.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The barrique held the harvest in a dark wooden hush,” uses the French term for a small oak barrel, commonly about 225 liters; “Vanilla rose from the barrique like warm dust”; A poet may use the barrel’s oak, toast, and slow aging to symbolize patience; “Each barrique was a wooden stanza, seasoning the wine between verses.”
Additional Notes
A barrique is usually an oak barrel of about 225 liters, especially associated with Bordeaux. Its small size gives wine relatively high oak contact, contributing flavors such as vanilla, toast, spice, and sometimes tannin. Barrel age, toast level, and the number of previous uses affect its impact.
Also Known As
Bordeaux Barrel French Oak Barrel
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