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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Box

River
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

A very minor stream, possibly referencing Box Brook in Gloucestershire or used poetically for its symbolic name.

Detailed Definition
The name “Box” may refer to Box Brook or be employed metaphorically, evoking containment, nature’s geometry, or hidden beauty. In poetry, such small streams symbolize overlooked sanctuaries or the quiet intricacies of local ecology.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Box” refers to Box Brook in Gloucestershire, often evoked in local nature poetry for its limestone clarity; Poets use Box to exemplify the English “winterbourne”—dry in summer, flowing in winter—offering seasonal metaphors; Its association with ancient boxwood forests lends mythic overtones in landscape verse; Contemporary poets reference Box in elegies for lost chalk-stream ecosystems; The name “Box” invites wordplay in poems exploring enclosure, revelation, or natural containers; In eco-poetry, Box Brook serves as a microcosm for watershed health and rural stewardship.
Additional Notes
Box likely refers to Box Brook in Gloucestershire, a minor but ecologically significant chalk stream; its name invites wordplay—linking river, enclosure, and revelation—and suits minimalist or meditative poetry; as a “winterbourne” (seasonally dry), it offers metaphors for absence, return, and ecological vulnerability; useful for poems on local stewardship or the poetics of small-scale nature.
Also Known As
Box Brook coffer Boxwood
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