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

Bedstead

Furnishings
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 structural frame that supports a bed. It may represent sleep, intimacy, birth, illness, or death.

Detailed Definition
A bedstead gives visible shape to the private territory of the bed, whether it is a plain iron frame or a carved wooden heirloom. In poetry, its posts, rails, and creaking joints can make a bedroom feel historical and inhabited. A child’s bedstead may suggest vulnerability, while an empty one can sharpen themes of bereavement or separation. Poets also use it in scenes of fever, dreams, lovemaking, and death, where the ordinary furniture of sleep becomes a boundary between waking life and the unknown.
Example
Example in poetry:
A child lies awake in a brass bedstead, hearing rain tick against the roof; The iron bedstead’s creaking rails give a childhood memory concrete sound; In a poem of illness, a narrow bedstead can suggest confinement and vulnerability; “The bedstead kept its cold outline after you rose” uses the object to convey loneliness
Additional Notes
A bedstead is the frame rather than the bedding itself, a distinction that can matter in older poetry where bedsteads were prominent and durable household possessions. Because the same structure may witness courtship, marriage, childbirth, sickness, sleep, dreams, and death, it can become a silent repository of domestic history. An old or empty bedstead may evoke absence particularly strongly. Students should consider material details such as wood, iron, curtains, creaking, or age. Related terms include bed, canopy bed, chamber, deathbed, cradle, domesticity, and threshold.
Other Meanings of “Bedstead”
Also Known As
Bed Frame
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