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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Blizzard

Winds
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

Blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterised by strong winds, low visibility, and prolonged heavy snowfall, typically occurring in high-latitude and mountainous regions.

Detailed Definition
The blizzard is a quintessential winter storm, especially in North American and European folklore. It combines wind and snow to create whiteout conditions, immobilising travel and threatening life. In poetry, the blizzard is a powerful metaphor for overwhelming adversity, emotional coldness, and the obliteration of familiar landmarks. It evokes themes of isolation, endurance, and the sublime indifference of nature. Poets also use it as a backdrop for introspection, where the external storm mirrors internal turmoil, and the eventual calm brings a profound, cleansing silence.
Example
Example in poetry:
Blizzard|Blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong winds, low visibility, and prolonged heavy snowfall, typically occurring in high-latitude regions.|The blizzard is a quintessential winter storm, especially in North American and European folklore, combining wind and snow to create whiteout conditions. In poetry, the blizzard is a powerful metaphor for overwhelming adversity, emotional coldness, and the obliteration of familiar landmarks. It evokes themes of isolation, endurance, and the sublime indifference of nature. Poets also use it as a backdrop for introspection, where the external storm mirrors internal turmoil, and the eventual calm brings a profound, cleansing silence.;
Additional Notes
The blizzard is one of the most powerful and evocative weather phenomena in North American and European poetry, a severe snowstorm characterized by high winds, low visibility, and prolonged snowfall. It is a force that obliterates familiar landmarks, isolates individuals, and tests the limits of human endurance. In poetry, the blizzard often serves as a metaphor for overwhelming adversity, emotional coldness, or the erasure of identity. It can represent the sublime indifference of nature, the struggle against a hostile environment, or the quiet, introspective journey through internal turmoil. The blizzard's ability to create a white, featureless landscape also invites themes of purification, new beginnings, and the tabula rasa. Poets from Robert Frost to contemporary writers have used the blizzard to explore the tension between external chaos and internal calm, the beauty and terror of winter, and the resilience required to survive both physical and emotional storms. When writing about a blizzard, focus on sensory details—the howl of wind, the sting of snow, the profound silence after the storm.
Other Meanings of “Blizzard”
Also Known As
blinding snow arctic gale zero-visibility storm Snowstorm
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