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

Bone

Anatomy
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

The hard framework of the body, often used to suggest mortality, endurance, or essential truth.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, bone can represent the durable structure beneath beauty, flesh, and social appearance. A poet may invoke bones to confront death, ancestry, labor, hunger, or the irreducible facts of embodiment. Bones also lend images of starkness and exposure: a winter tree may be described as all bone, or a ruined landscape as picked clean. Because bone survives when softer matter disappears, it can carry associations of memory and permanence.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang” from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 turns leafless branches into a skeletal image of bone and age; “My bones are aching” can make grief feel physical rather than abstract; A poet might write “the river worried the mountain to its white bone” to reveal stone beneath soil; “Bone flute” can suggest music made from mortality and memory
Additional Notes
Bone imagery can make the body seem both durable and temporary. Poets may use “to the bone” for essential truth, or bones as remnants that outlast flesh, linking mortality with memory.
Also Known As
Osseous Tissue ivorie
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