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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bewhigged

Archaic Terms
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

Wearing a wig, especially the elaborate powdered wigs of 17th- and 18th-century fashion.

Detailed Definition
“Bewhigged” appears in satirical or historical poetry to critique vanity, class, or artifice. The wig symbolizes social performance, legal authority, or outdated custom. Poets use it to mock pretension or evoke period detail, linking external adornment to internal falsity or the burdens of public role-playing.
Example
Example in poetry:
The judge, bewhigged and stern, passed sentence cold; Bewhigged ghosts of law still haunt the marble halls; She mocked the bewhigged fools who rule by fear; In powdered wig, he played the king for a day
Additional Notes
“Bewhigged” describes someone wearing an elaborate powdered wig, symbolizing 17th–18th century authority, vanity, or artifice. In satirical poetry, it critiques social performance, legal pomposity, or outdated custom. The wig becomes a metaphor for external identity masking inner falsity. Related terms include “periwigged,” “powdered,” and “coiffed,” but “bewhigged” uniquely ties fashion to power structures, evoking specific historical tensions between appearance and truth.
Also Known As
wearing a wig
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