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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blackcurrant

Perfumery
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

Blackcurrant is a tart, catty, and fruity berry note with intense, jammy depth.

Detailed Definition
Ribena-like. In modern poetry, it represents bold, unconventional flavors and sensory experimentation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Blackcurrant offers tart, dark-fruity, sometimes green or “catty” scent imagery: “Blackcurrant split on the tongue, purple as a storm”; In a garden poem, its berries can mark late summer, abundance, or stained hands; A perfume lyric may use blackcurrant as a vivid top note against rose, moss, or smoke; Its sharp sweetness can complicate nostalgia, making a childhood jam memory feel wild rather than purely comforting
Additional Notes
Blackcurrant berry note brings tart, catty, jammy intensity with green leaf facets, adding bold fruit depth in modern fruity or chypre compositions. Poetry students employ blackcurrant for unconventional vibrancy or childhood memory in experimental verses; usage tip: contrast blackcurrant tartness with creamy bases for emotional complexity in coming-of-age narratives. Related to raspberry and fruity categories, it expands bold flavor profiles. This helps professors teach risk-taking in description, mirroring how intense notes create memorable impact akin to striking poetic language.
Also Known As
cassis blackcurrant bud cassis absolute bourgeon de cassis (French) Currant
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