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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Bell

Symbolism
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 bell symbolizes warning, ritual, remembrance, or a summons to attention.

Detailed Definition
Poetic bells may ring for death, worship, celebration, danger, or the passage of time. Their sound travels beyond the visible source, making them useful symbols of messages that cannot be ignored. A distant bell can evoke loneliness or separation, while a funeral bell gives communal form to private grief. Because its resonance lingers after the strike, the bell also symbolizes memory: an event may be finished, but its emotional echo continues to shape the speaker.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells," changing bell sounds symbolize emotional movement from celebration to terror and death; A funeral bell can symbolize the unavoidable approach of mortality; A distant church bell in a poem may symbolize conscience calling a speaker back to faith or responsibility; A cracked bell that cannot ring can symbolize a silenced community or broken communication
Additional Notes
A bell may mark ceremony, worship, warning, death, schooltime, alarm, or a turning point in the speaker’s awareness. Its sound can travel across distance, measure silence, or summon a community, while a cracked or absent bell may imply disruption. Compare clock, trumpet, and toll; a toll often carries more solemn associations. Study hint: specify its sound, source, and effect on those who hear it rather than relying on symbolism alone.
Also Known As
Chime Tocsin
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