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

Blending

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

Blending is the practice of combining different wines to achieve a balanced and harmonious final product.

Detailed Definition
Blending serves as a central metaphor for synthesis and compromise in poetry. It suggests that perfection is rarely found in isolation but through the union of complementary parts. Poets invoke blending to discuss marriage, collaboration, cultural fusion, or the integration of conflicting emotions, emphasizing that strength often lies in mixture rather than purity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Blending was the poet's craft too—mixing varietals as one mixes metaphors for a balanced line; He wrote of blending as the diplomat's compromise, where cabernet's strength met merlot's softness; In her epic, blending was the chorus after solo verses, a harmony of parcels from diverse slopes; The poet compared blending to the mixing of memories, each vintage a recollection that improves the whole; She called blending the art of conversation, where each grape speaks and then listens to become a single voice
Additional Notes
Blending is the winemaker's art of combining different wines—whether from different grape varieties, vineyard blocks, fermentation batches, or aging vessels—to achieve a balanced, harmonious, and complex final product that exceeds the quality of any single component, and it is practiced at every level, from the large negociants to the smallest estate; the process involves countless decisions about proportion, timing, and sequence, and it requires a refined palate and a clear vision of the desired style, whether that means enhancing fruitiness, adding structure, adjusting acidity, or creating consistency across vintages; in poetry, blending serves as an analogy for the revision and synthesis of multiple drafts, influences, and images into a unified whole, and it is central to understanding many classic wine styles, including Bordeaux, Champagne, Rioja, and Cava, where the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts.
Also Known As
assemblage cuvée creation harmonious marriage Camouflage
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